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Porn Filtering Software for Kids’ Mobile Phones Sends Images to Parents

March 1, 2011

Mobile filtering software is limited or non-existent.

Parents who want to prevent their children from accessing pornographic material online normally only worry about traditional PCs, but what’s the use of installing filtering software now that kids can get porn on their phones? Internet-enabled smartphones can access any pornographic website, but mobile filtering software is limited or non-existent. And with the rise of sexting, children can even share their own indecent images.

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Current Events, Globalism, government, Historical Perspectives, Internet, Latest News

China’s Internet Censors Don’t Like the Smell of “Jasmine”

February 26, 2011

Jasmine Flower

China’s state Internet censors have ratcheted up web filters, and security officers are harassing and detaining bloggers and activists as an online appeal for a “Jasmine Revolution” spreads in China.

The apparent crackdown came in advance of two top legislative meetings, the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, scheduled for March.

Censors blocked the word “jasmine” after overseas dissident-run news website Boxun and Chinese Twitter users broadcast calls on February 19 to mobilize street protests modeled on recent unrest in the Middle East, according to international news reports…

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Business, Great New Product, Internet, Science & Technology News

NoteSee – New Conference Note Sharing Application

February 25, 2011

NoteSee

A year ago, Joel Smith was struggling to decide which panel to attend at South By Southwest, an annual tech (and music) conference in Austin, Texas. “There were many moments where I wish I could be three people so I could sit in all the really interesting panels,” he recalled. Absent cloning, his workaround was to Google for any notes, slides and videos he could find. “Not much turned up.”

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Access to Nighttime Online Games Will Be Blocked in Vietnam

February 24, 2011

Online games will be blocked between the hours of 10pm to 8am.

Gamers in Vietnam will soon have to rearrange their schedules if they’re used to playing videogames online at night. The country’s Ministry of Information and Communication is requesting that local internet service providers block online games access between the hours of 10pm and 8am.

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Big Problems, Internet, Science & Technology News

Why Was Google Collecting the Last Four Digits of Kids’ Social Security Numbers for an Art Contest?

February 23, 2011

Google could easily have guessed the remainder of the numbers from the other information they collected.

Google asked parents to enter the last four digits of their children’s Social Security Numbers, as well as their city of birth and age, as a condition to enter a Google-sponsored art contest.

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Amazon Takes On Netflix with Unlimited Video Streaming

February 23, 2011

Amazon has announced it will stream movies for free to people who subscribe to the e-tailer’s Prime service.

For years, Amazon appeared to be a big pushover when it came to delivering Web entertainment.

During the early part of the Internet Age, Amazon shipped CDs and DVDs to customers who ordered them via the Web and CEO Jeff Bezos’ company was synonymous with Web music and movies. Then Apple’s iTunes, and Netflix, laid waste to physical discs by delivering digital downloads or streaming video and Amazon quietly drifted to the back of the pack.

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Globalism, government, Historical Perspectives, Internet, Latest News

Libya Follows Egypt’s Lead, Starts Shutting Off Internet Services

February 19, 2011

Both the BBC and the AFP are reporting that Muammar Gaddafi’s government in Libya has begun to block user access to Facebook in the country’s capital of Tripoli and is sporadically shutting down electricity access and access to Internet connections in the rest of the country as a response to anti-govermental protests…

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Demand for Mobile Data Overwhelming Cell Networks

February 17, 2011

Popularity of smartphones continues to grow on a global scale.

At the Mobile World Congress, the industry’s largest annual gathering being held here this week, the corporate visionaries of the business agreed that a challenge they all would face was managing the avalanche of demand for mobile data services fueled by the growth in smartphones.

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Drug-Makers Shifting Focus to Mobile Apps

February 17, 2011

Get more drug knowledge on your phone now.

The next great frontier in health care lies not in little blue pills but in information technology, and it seems that big pharmaceutical companies are finally recognizing it…

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Analysis, Internet, Science & Technology News

Switching to IPv6 Near as the World Runs Out of IP Addresses

February 15, 2011

Internet Protocol version 6

Who could have guessed that 4.3 billion Internet connections wouldn’t be enough? Certainly not Vint Cerf.

In 1976, Mr. Cerf and his colleagues in the R.& D. office of the Defense Department had to make a judgment call: how much network address space should they allocate to an experiment connecting computers in an advanced data network?

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The More Unusual Your Username the Easier it is For Marketers and Scammers to Track You

February 14, 2011

Your unusual username could allow marketers and scammers to build a more complex picture of you.

By creating a distinctive username—and reusing it on multiple websites—you may be giving online marketers and scammers a simple way to track you. Four researchers from the French National Institute of Computer Science (INRIA) studied over 10 million usernames—collected from public Google profiles, eBay accounts, and several other sources. They found that about half of the usernames used on one site could be linked to another online profile, potentially allowing marketers and scammers to build a more complex picture the users.

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