The Iranian government appears to have blocked access to Google's search engine and Gmail webmail service from inside Iran, according to Internet users there. A security researcher going by the Twitter handle of @0xal reported late Sunday ...
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The upper house of the Russian Parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that the nation's IT industry believes has high potential to lead to Internet censorship. The bill, including amendments to several laws, was adopted by the upper house ...
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It goes without saying that China has proven it is a true heavyweight global contender. The herculean growth achieved by China over the past two decades is unprecedented in the annals of human history. China has overtaken Japan to become ...
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Reuters reported that crude flow from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan has been cut by around 75,000 barrels per day because of a technical problem at Khurmala oilfield though the region's Tawke and Taq Taq fields are still at normal output. ...
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Wikipedia was out of action again on Monday, but not intentionally, out of protest, as it has been in the past. This time, the user-generated online encyclopaedia was knocked offline because two fibre cables connecting its datacentres in ...
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A new 10 year electric power supply contract signed on December 7th 2012 ends years of job uncertainty for 625 Alcoa Intalco Works employees. More than 100 workers gathered at the aluminum smelter's Totem Terrace assembly hall west of ...
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A hacker group calling itself the Arab Youth Group has claimed responsibility for what appears to be a serious hacking attack on Saudi Aramco, one of the world's largest energy companies. The attack comes at the same time security firms ...
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As Olympic athletes take to a global stage in London this week, participants, coaches and fans are expected to take to their favorite social networks in record numbers. Whenever something big happens -- tornadoes, political unrest, the ...
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Business News Americas cited Ms Irenea Renuncio senior Latin America analyst of Maplecroft as saying that Argentina is a high risk destination for mining companies and is becoming increasingly more so due to the deteriorating business ...
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Calling the abrupt up to 14 hours per day energy loadshedding announced for winter gas and power supply to be unjust and unfair, Muhammad Anees Khawaja, Incharge of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) South Punjab chapter said ...
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Facebook is moving to fix one of its biggest problems - finding ways to make money from its growing base of mobile users. The social network Wednesday said that it's trying out a new mobile ad system and is calling on Facebook app ...
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China has started blocking SlideShare, a document sharing service recently acquired by LinkedIn, making the site inaccessible to users in the country. "It appears that Internet users in China are not currently able to access SlideShare. ...
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Popular online social networking site Tumblr was ravaged on Monday by an Internet worm that spewed racist and inflammatory messages across thousands of user accounts. The malicious hacking group known as GNAA claimed responsibility. The ...
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Access to Google services in China appeared to return after they were blocked briefly as the country prepares to appoint new leadership. The blocking appeared to last for about 12 hours, with Internet traffic resuming to the sites after 6 ...
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Even as the dog at the center of a global animal rights battle was put to death on Wednesday, social networks proved to be a massive weapon for protestors. Lennox, a seven-year-old black dog who lived with his family in Belfast, Ireland, ...
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