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A report over at DailyTech claims Apple has so much experience in restricting the use of its hardware under certain circumstances, that the company has decided to file a patent application to further empower itself to do so. Apple is well known for its habit of locking users down to a single mobile service operator (... |
5 October 2009
05:22 GMT |
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In every environment, be it corporate, educational or home, it is very important to prevent the operating systems and applications from being sabotaged. Databases stored on these computers are most often the heart and soul of the activity and without them management would be impossible. However, this is just one of t... |
7 March 2009
05:11 GMT |
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Singapore has recently banned two adult websites offering free videos as a move meant to protect young users living in the country, the Singaporean authorities said according to Reuters. Although the names of the websites have not been disclosed, people are already speculating that the banned pages were two online vi... |
23 May 2008
05:57 GMT |
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While most social networks on the Internet struggle to attract more users of all ages, Faceparty took the decision to ban all the registered members with ages above 36 because of new legislation. At least, this is what the representatives stated but, according to various sources, the new laws don't support the b... |
22 May 2008
16:41 GMT |
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The information available on the Internet is not equally available in all the world's regions, and the state of facts in China is the best example of how a government filters the data users can have access to. Popular sites like Youtube and Wikipedia are only two of the many web addresses that get blocked by mil... |
9 April 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Sameskybooks.com, a website that hosted messages posted by the users criticizing the Thai monarchy, got banned after the country's authorities forced the ISP to close the page. Internet Service Provider Netservice sent a letter to the operator of the website to inform him that it got pressured by the Information... |
7 January 2008
15:31 GMT |
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We all know Facebook is extremely popular when it comes to the number of Internet users accessing its webpage. Alexa placed Facebook on position number 7, while compete.com estimates the social networking service has almost 30 million visitors per month. Impressive, isn't it? Certainly yes, but this popularity ... |
10 December 2007
06:12 GMT |
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Yelp, a popular website hosting consumers' reviews about businesses in Bay Area, has become unavailable to several users, although there was no official statement or notification concerning the outage. According to "PC World", the website was blocked today, from around 9 a.m to 11 a.m. Pacific time, but nobody k... |
29 November 2007
05:12 GMT |
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BitTorrent is probably the most popular file sharing technology nowadays and this thing seems to bother some ISPs that are likely to do anything possible to limit the BitTorrent use. For instance, it was reported that Comcast limited the BitTorrent downloads because they required too much bandwidth which obviously af... |
22 November 2007
05:22 GMT |
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Jon Swift, a Facebook blogger "who likes to write about politics and culture", was banned on the social networking website because he uses a nickname instead of the real name. It seems that it all started from Facebook's Terms of Use which require the registered members to enter their real first and last name. B... |
2 November 2007
05:52 GMT |
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Reporters Without Borders and Chinese Human Rights Defenders made a special survey concerning the Internet censorship in China, a country which is doubted to be the most restrictive one when it comes to online content. According to the two organizations, the Chinese government is the only country which hired thousand... |
15 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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The German Internet service provider Arcor took the decision to block the access to numerous porn websites because they provide weak security filters to restrict the under-18 users from visiting the page. As Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped wrote, Video Buster/ Kirchberg Logistik complained about the security ... |
13 September 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Today, it was reported that the European Union plans to create some new restrictions for the Internet that would block the consumers from searching for criminal information such as terrorism, how to make a bomb or genocide details. Obviously, this would also involved the largest and the famous web technologies, such ... |
11 September 2007
16:51 GMT |
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Following the recent efforts of the authorities from all around the world to stop the malicious use of the Internet in order to conduct terrorist attacks, the European Union is also getting involved in the matter and plans to impose new restrictions soon. Reuters reports that EU Justice and Security Commissioner Fran... |
11 September 2007
05:29 GMT |
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If you have ever uploaded a clip on YouTube, you probably know that Google's video sharing service has a strong policy when it comes to the size of the clips or to their length. Because of that, numerous users encounter several difficulties when uploading a clip on YouTube so a more powerful compression is neede... |
7 September 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Every time a company is involved into a censorship matter, the problem is quickly turned into a serious one because it might affect its image and attract consumers' criticism. Because of that, the Mountain View company Google always tries to clarify these matters through official statements published by its repr... |
30 August 2007
08:40 GMT |
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YouTube has a very strict policy when it comes to the users looking for an account on the popular online video sharing service. If you didn't know, you're not allowed to register an account on YouTube if you're not over 13 years old. However, the parent company Google allows the persons with ages betwe... |
11 July 2007
04:20 GMT |
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Pandora, the Music Gnome Project, is now restricted outside the US after the international licensing guidelines forced the producers to allow only local listeners. In an email sent today, Pandora informed me about the new limitation, sustaining UK might be the only country to be allowed to connect to the service. "Du... |
3 May 2007
02:32 GMT |
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