Monday, March 11th, 2013
Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, are objecting to the online retailer’s request for ownership of new top-level domain names. They argue that giving Amazon control over such addresses—which include “.book,” “.author” and “.read”—would be a threat to competition and shouldn’t be allowed. “Placing such generic domains in
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
Government crackdowns on Internet dissidents and bloggers in the United Arab Emirates have finally come to a head. The government made sweeping changes yesterday to the laws that govern what the country’s citizens can and can’t do...
Saturday, November 10th, 2012
The company said it was not having any technical problems, but did not say whether it believed its sites had been blocked by the government or were the victims of hacking. Despite great fanfare, China’s Party Congress...
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Governments strained to allow voters to participate in the election despite damage from Hurricane Sandy. In New York City, where almost 60 polling places were moved, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was running election shuttles from stricken areas....
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Gambit is the leading virtual currency and payment- processing provider to software developers that publish games on Facebook and other social networks. Facebook’s decision in 2009 to offer its own services to developers destroyed a “vibrant and...
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
Recently, Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization, published “Freedom of the Net 2012,” the third edition of its report measuring Internet use in 47 countries. Based on the report, 24/7 Wall St. identified the 10 countries with...
Sunday, September 16th, 2012
The Internet company said it was censoring the video in India and Indonesia after blocking it on Wednesday in Egypt and Libya, where U.S. embassies have been stormed by protestors enraged over depiction of the Prophet Mohammad...
Saturday, August 25th, 2012
The Indian government said in a statement it had already blocked access to 245 web pages it said contained doctored videos and images, and the telecommunications secretary threatened legal action against the websites if they did not...
Monday, August 13th, 2012
In South Korea — A government critic who called the president a curse word on his Twitter account found it blocked. An activist whose Twitter posting likened officials to pirates for approving a controversial naval base was...
Monday, August 6th, 2012
At present several non-profit US bodies oversee the net’s technical specifications and domain name system. They operate at arms-length from the US government but officially under the remit of its Department of Commerce. There has been speculation...
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