Network World-Traditional news companies and other websites covering this year's presidential election are preparing for a flood of Web traffic over the coming months,and not just from political junkies.Politically motivated hactivist ...
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The U.S. on Thursday said it ordered sanctions against Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Reza Taghipour, and other entities and persons responsible for engaging in censorship in their country. Taghipour is ...
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Computerworld - Google confirmed a dropoff in traffic to its sites in China on Friday, echoing an online report that the company's services are being blocked there. All Google services are inaccessible in China, according to the Google ...
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Google has shut down its online shopping service in China, further slimming down its product portfolio for the country after it pulled the plug on its free music service back in September. The Internet giant said it closed the site on ...
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The European Parliament has rejected the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), blocking its route to becoming law in European Union member states. The vote is the first time the body has exercised its Lisbon Treaty ...
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The U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union should embrace free and open broadband markets and allow individual countries to reform their telecommunications regulations instead of attempting to centrally regulate the industry, the ...
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Google has joined US government concerns that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could get control of the internet through its coming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication ...
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Russia's lower house of parliament has voted in favour of a law to give the government the power to shut down internet sites without trial. If offending websites cannot be shut down, the law allows authorities to force internet service ...
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Google's mobile maps product saw its market share in China decline by close to 50% in the third quarter due to Apple switching to its own maps product for its iOS 6 upgrade, according to a Beijing-based research firm. At the end of the ...
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Computerworld - Twitter has issued its first report about the requests it received this year from various governments for user information, and its responses. The U.S. government asked for information about far more users than any other ...
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Pakistan and Bangladesh have ordered a block on YouTube in their countries, in protest against Google's reluctance to block a controversial movie trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad on the video-sharing site. Pakistani Prime Minister ...
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IDG News Service - Cybercriminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious traffic through them, according to security researchers from Symantec. ...
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IDG News Service - The Russian version of Wikipedia went black on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that could become the basis for Internet censorship. Wikipedia's protest is backed by other large Russian online businesses such as the ...
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After carefully working with China for the past two years, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt bluntly predicted the fall of the Great Firewall of China. "I believe that ultimately censorship fails," Schmidt said in an interview last week with ...
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Residents of Estonia have the most freedom to do what they want on the Internet, with the U.S. ranking second among 47 countries examined by a group that pushes for democratic freedoms worldwide. However, residents of several countries ...
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