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Mobile phones are a negative distraction for children, considers the Karnataka government. Children aged under 16 and living in this Indian southern state will be banned to use handsets from now on, in the attempt of protecting their health.Karnataka's government also addressed cell phone companies not to sell h... |
12 September 2007
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Wikipedia was banned again in China although the local authorities didn't say anything about it. Numerous local users confirmed that the English version of the web-based encyclopedia is unavailable while the Chinese websites are regularly becoming available. PC World reports that Wikipedia is often banned by the... |
7 September 2007
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We already knew that Microsoft is not too keen on Unix and Linux, as they are rival products, but banning them as keywords in the Xbox Live just doesn't seem right. The online service now disallows funny screen names like "Linuxrules", "Linux" or any other variations. Many bloggers have also reported that varia... |
5 September 2007
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A new survey conducted by Money Supermarket revealed that the Internet users are very attracted by pornography but what's more interesting is that many of them intend to download adult material at work. According to Web User, no less than 8 percent of the users who usually download porn want to do it at work, an... |
5 September 2007
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Taking work on holiday through endless phone calls is not a new thing. It's annoying for the handset's owner, but also for those sitting around him and having to hear the constant ringing and long talks. A Caribbean beach looks to get rid of this type of vacation by banning any calls those who spend time wi... |
1 September 2007
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After months of unavailability, the online video sharing platform YouTube becomes available to the Thai users as the local government offered its approval. It seems like the folks working for YouTube managed to implement several filters that would be able to block the access of the Thai viewers to several clips flagg... |
31 August 2007
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The number of people who use various types of gadgets almost on a daily basis has skyrocketed over the past few years and now you can see a mobile phone, an iPod or a PDA wherever you look. However, it would seem that this gadget overflow is affecting quite a lot of people in a negative way, as they want to escape th... |
30 August 2007
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The Brazilian version of Google as well as the local flavor of Orkut might be banned in Brazil if the search giant doesn't agree to disclose private information about some users that were identified as pedophiles. The social networking website Orkut is the most visited website in Brazil and, as AccuraCast report... |
29 August 2007
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The famous torrent search engine TorrentSpy was banned in the United States and blocked the access of the local consumers on the official page of the service after a judge demanded the owners of the product to disclose private information about the users. Until the lawyers appeal the decision, TorrentSpy will remain ... |
28 August 2007
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Nowadays, Facebook and other social networking services are quite a phenomenon that changed the life of numerous Internet users. A recent study conducted by security company Sophos revealed that no less than 50 percent of the employees are banned from Facebook while 66 percent of the respondents are worried that some... |
21 August 2007
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This is quite an interesting story and it seems it will continue to remain the same for a long period of time. If you don't know what I am talking about, let me present you the entire soap-opera so far: a long time ago it was reported that YouTube was banned in Thailand due to several clips published on its offi... |
26 July 2007
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Following the recent imagery updates from Google Earth, the Mountain View company censored a major part of Washington in a move meant to hide sensitive locations from the public eyes. Although the search giant didn't announce it, some parts of Washington are not accessible since they were made blurry just like s... |
24 July 2007
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Qualcomm's request for a stay of the ban for its chips has been dismissed by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The situation will go on like this until the presidential review period is over.Things have been going pretty bad for Qualcomm in the last period. Verizon has decided to pay Broadcom to lice... |
23 July 2007
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According to several Sprint clients, the US carrier is dropping subscribers who, from the company's point of view, are calling too often the free customer service. You know, the service created with the purpose of... yes, you guessed, the purpose of serving customers. Customers who might have complaints or quest... |
6 July 2007
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Google's video service YouTube is still blocked in Thailand as the local authorities are trying to promote a law that would move the power of restricting access to certain pages to the court. Until now, the Minister of Communications was able to block any site without an official order from the judge. Using the ... |
4 July 2007
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It's been a while since the online video sharing service YouTube received a ban in the whole Thailand because several insulting clips were published on its official page. The Thai authorities contacted the Mountain View company and requested the removal of the videos but YouTube refused because no one of them in... |
29 June 2007
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The Sunnyvale company Yahoo wants to conquer the Asian market but China proved us several times that it is not welcomed in the country. However, the giant portal keeps trying to expand its services into China although the local market seems to be quite inaccessible for the Sunnyvale company. According to Pacific Epoc... |
29 June 2007
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The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) has come up with a plan of turning into reality one of the craziest ideas that ever popped into their heads. Due to the fact that currently DVD sales are pretty poor (all hail the DVD-ripping software!) and the fact that HD-DVDs and Blu-Rays will soon have the same fate, the... |
25 June 2007
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Back in May, the popular online video sharing service YouTube was entirely banned in Morocco, but the local authorities refused to confirm or deny the rumors. In fact, it all started from the blog owners who wrote on their pages that YouTube was blocked in their country because several clips were insulting the consti... |
21 June 2007
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Last week, an interesting rumor spread on the Internet sustaining that Yahoo's Flickr was banned by the Chinese authorities but no reason for that was offered. At that time, the Sunnyvale company's officials refused to offer more details about the unavailability of the service, saying only that it wasn'... |
14 June 2007
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The Sunnyvale company Yahoo has gotten into some new troubles in China after it was reported that its online photo sharing service Flickr in unavailable for most of the local users. There is no official statement to indicate that Yahoo is facing a new ban in the country but, after the company's representative de... |
11 June 2007
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Following the recent modifications made to the Google guidelines, some of the users started to ask questions about them especially because they were not enough clear. Today, Vanessa Fox from Google decided to explain some of the guidelines and to underline the most important of them. First of all, the famous prohibit... |
8 June 2007
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YouTube is now available to all the Moroccan users after the ban imposed a few days ago was removed. Although the case was quite important because the online video sharing service was accused for insulting videos, it seems like the ban was caused by a technical problem. According to SFGate.com, the local authorities ... |
30 May 2007
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Google's online video sharing service YouTube became inaccessible for the Moroccan users for what it seems to be a local ban for the entire product. Although there is no official reason for the ban, it seems that a clip posted on YouTube is criticizing the country's king. However, if there is any clip infri... |
28 May 2007
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Privacy has always been a controversial issue in the IT field because the friendly computers everybody uses may store valuable and personal data. That data once accessed by unauthorized persons could eventually cause negative consequences; therefore, users must take all the safety measures in order to keep intruders ... |
25 May 2007
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Google's representatives offered a funny reply to the recently imposed ban for the US soldiers looking for entertainment content on YouTube. Earlier this week, the Pentagon blocked YouTube on all the computers connected to the Defense Department network because they regarded the website as a loss of bandwidth. H... |
18 May 2007
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What do you know, console hacking's days are over. Or at least for those who care about their online gaming through Xbox Live. Commenting on their move as "an important part of our efforts to try and maintain a fair gaming environment for the large majority of gamers that play by the rules," Microsoft has starte... |
18 May 2007
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The US soldiers are now banned on YouTube after the Department of Defense decided to block the access on numerous online website including Google's video sharing service. Besides YouTube, the troops are banned on MySpace, MTV, Hi5, Pandora and some other Internet websites. Although the official refused to sustai... |
14 May 2007
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YouTube finally agreed to remove the offensive Thai clips posted on its page after the online video sharing service initially refused to block them. According to the YouTube employees, the clips didn't infringe any of the product's guidelines so the company refused to block them. However, the story continue... |
11 May 2007
05:57 GMT |
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A US spy agency recently announced that several programs showing high-detailed imagery with most of the country's locations might be banned soon. This kind of program also includes Google Earth, the application powered by the Mountain View company that helps users view maps and satellite pictures straight from t... |
10 May 2007
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Millions of blogs created with Google's Blogger are unavailable in Ethiopia, the users criticizing the local authorities for censorship. It seems that it all started when the Horn of Africa, a peninsula of East Africa, blocked several services in the country including the Google Blogger. As you might know, Blogg... |
3 May 2007
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Well, it was about time either Sony or Insomniac set up a banning program for those lacking skills to actually play the damned game. Yeah that's right you cheater! All you do is get your ass kicked every time you go online, choosing Chimera for the great speed, forgetting that you're a much bigger target i... |
30 April 2007
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AdSense is not only a Google service; it also represents an important partner for most of the big companies on the Internet. As you know, the advertising platform helps individual users or firms with large websites to earn money by placing adverts on their pages. Although it might look like an easy way to make money ... |
27 April 2007
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Google Earth is the downloadable application powered by Google that allows users to view maps and other satellite imagery straight from their desktop. Recently, the program was involved in an interesting case reported in Sudan, a country that is currently banned from using Google Earth. As you might know, several pub... |
23 April 2007
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AdSense is one of the most popular advertising platforms on the Internet and this especially because it allows users to earn money by placing several Google ads on their pages. As you can see, the implementation of the AdSense adverts involves some webpage design modification that can harm the layout of the site or ... |
20 April 2007
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Google is currently indexing millions of websites from the entire world and it is extremely important to filter the illegal or the adult content published on these pages. That's why the search giant is continuously working to block pornographic content and adult related matters but sometimes it is more than diff... |
11 April 2007
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YouTube is more than a video service because it owns an incredible community of members with millions of clips uploaded every day. Recently, the Google product announced its decision to hire one of the most active members of the community, making him YouTube's Community Advocate. Recently, there were several cas... |
10 April 2007
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The story was quite interesting but very similar with other YouTube events reported in the past. Recently, YouTube was entirely banned in Thailand after numerous offensive videos were published on the main page and recorded a huge number of views. Although the local authorities contacted the YouTube team and demanded... |
10 April 2007
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YouTube, the online video sharing owned by Google, causes new headaches after it received a new ban in Thailand. According to the local authorities, the search giant refused to remove an offending clip from the page so they had nothing to do than to block the entire website."Since Google has rejected our repeated req... |
4 April 2007
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Banning Windows Vista is just standard procedure and nothing more. Companies like Intel and organizations such as The Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have all postponed upgrading to Windows Vista. In the aftermath of Windows Vista upgrade ban reports, N... |
26 March 2007
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Today it was reported that YouTube, the online video sharing owned by Google was again available in Turkey after the court ordered the largest ISP of the country to remove the ban imposed two days ago. Now, it seems like YouTube was banned in Thailand because numerous users reported they're unable to access the ... |
12 March 2007
11:24 GMT |
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YouTube Turkey is again available after the largest ISP in the country blocked the service after a court decision. A court ordered the ISP to restrict the access to the video service after numerous users uploaded clips that insulted Turkey's residents and demanded the search giant to remove all the movies from t... |
12 March 2007
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YouTube is one of the most popular video-sharing services on the Internet, allowing users to upload, share and comment movies with other members of the community. Because it allows all the registered members to publish their videos, Google received several complaints, the company being accused for uploading content w... |
7 March 2007
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YouTube, the video service provided by Google, contains a huge number of videos from all categories including sports, movies, entertainment, fun or even homemade movies. Because the product has millions of users that are continuously uploading new videos every day, the Australian authorities decided to block the serv... |
1 March 2007
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