Archive for the ‘internet’ Category
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
"Any adult who uses the Internet to bully or harass another person, particularly a young teenage girl, needs to realize that their actions can have serious consequences," U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien said in announcing the indictment.Read the full story
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information--often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion--that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
While the article generated many positive comments, one reader said the disabled should 'get a grip' and maintained they 'have no more right to demand that others provide for their needs than I, as a diabetic, have a right to demand that sugar no longer be used.' Should Web sites ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
As was reported by AppleInsider earlier this year (1, 2), the new version of the Apple browser is the first to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations. Safari 3.1 also introduces support for CSS Web Fonts, giving designers limitless ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.Read the full story
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
These new projects (it is a little hard to call them full-fledged companies) take an entirely different approach from the software and Internet firms of the late 1990s. The new ethos among entrepreneurs: Throw something out there quickly and see if it sticks.Read the full story
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Lazarus writes that the companies say they can terminate Internet access "for any behavior that AT&T or Verizon believes might harm its 'name or reputation,' or even the reputation of its business partners."Read the full story
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Update: Facebook has reactivated the "Fuck Islam" group and Microsoft is continuing to place ads from major corporations such as Sprint, T-Mobile and Coca Cola through its digital advertising service on the group page.
Update: After I posted this to Slashdot's Firehose, the Fuck Islam group was deleted today. However, the ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
LiveJournal tries to turn the blogosphere upside down. Ooops. Don't they talk to the folks at SixApart?Read the full story
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