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Submission + - China to Scan Texts to Spot "Unhealthy Content" (nytimes.com)

Submitted by koavf on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @11:14PM

koavf writes: Hot on the heels of Google's decision to stop censoring search results at google.con, the People's Republic of China has ordered cellphone companies to suspend text services to users who send "unhealthy" messages. To combat the dissemination of pornography, cellular companies in Beijing and Shanghai have been told to suspend text services to cellphone users who are found to have sent messages with "illegal or unhealthy content."

Text messages will be automatically scanned for keywords provided by the police. Messages will be deemed ""unhealthy" if they violate undisclosed criteria established by the central government.

Comment Re:Inaccurate title (Score 2, Insightful) 137

by koavf on Monday August 31, 2009 @10:21PM (#29269263) Attached to: Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold

I wish I could figure out how to delete (stupid) comments. Please ignore and move along. Thanks.

Comment Inaccurate title (Score 0, Offtopic) 137

by koavf on Monday August 31, 2009 @10:16PM (#29269237) Attached to: Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold

There are several older domains, e.g. purdue.edu: http://whois.domaintools.com/purdue.edu

Submission + - Radiohead to only release digital singles

Submitted by

koavf

on Friday August 14, 2009 @01:38AM

koavf writes: "Radiohead have become the latest major rock act to announce that they will no longer release albums in any format, but focus on digital singles. Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins made a similar declaration last year. This comes on the heels of the major record labels and Apple developing competing multimedia packages to encourage music fans to buy and listen to entire albums."

Submission + - Periodic table gets a new, unnamed element (bbc.co.uk) 2

Submitted by koavf on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @11:11PM

koavf writes: More than a decade after experiments first produced a single atom of "super-heavy" element 112, a team of German scientists has been credited with its discovery, but it has yet to be named. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has temporarily named the element ununbium, as "ununbi" means "one one two" in Latin; but the team now has the task of proposing its official name.

Submission + - Former Facebook executive is new MySpace CEO (cnn.com)

Submitted by koavf on Friday April 24, 2009 @02:02PM

koavf writes: Former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta has been named the CEO of MySpace by parent company News Corp. He is replacing Chris DeWolfe who will remain a board member.

Submission + - Social networks help fuel democracy in Moldova (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

koavf

on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @12:34AM

koavf writes: "Young Moldovans have employed text messaging, Facebook, and even a custom searchable tag on Twitter to help oust the Communist government amidst allegations of vote tampering. With social networking technology, a half-dozen democrats recruited over 15,000 youth to storm Parliament in a matter of hours. In a television broadcast, Moldovan president Voronin described the protests as "well-designed, well-thought out, coordinated, planned and paid for.""

Submission + - C-SPAN claims rights on all domains named "CSP (cspanjunkie.org)

Submitted by

koavf

on Friday February 20, 2009 @12:28AM

koavf writes: "C-SPAN has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the video site C-SPAN Junkie asking that they: "Stop using a domain name containing our service mark 'C-SPAN' or any variation of it.""

Submission + - Facebook Reverts TOS, Drafts Bill of Rights

Submitted by

koavf

on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @03:38AM

koavf writes: "Facebook has decided to return to its previous Terms of Service — dated September 23, 2008 — until it can better determine how to proceed from the controversy caused by its most recent Terms. To help ensure they don't make the same mistakes again, they've also started the "Facebook Bill of Rights," a Facebook group formed specifically to allow people "to give input and suggestions on Facebook's Terms of Use.""

Submission + - Sony profits fall 95% in third quarter of 2008 (iht.com)

Submitted by koavf on Thursday January 29, 2009 @03:34AM

koavf writes: Sony Corp. said Thursday that net profit fell 95 percent in fiscal third quarter, as the global recession undermined sales of televisions and cameras. Figures from Sony and Nintendo are expected to be good indicators of the economic downturn in Japan.

Submission + - Isle of Man plans a new remedy for digital piracy (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

koavf

on Monday January 26, 2009 @05:30AM

koavf writes: "Under a proposal announced this month, the 80,000 people who live on the Isle of Man would be able to download unlimited amounts of music — perhaps even from notorious peer-to-peer pirate sites. To make this possible, broadband subscribers would pay a nominal fee of as little as £1, or $1.38, a month to their Internet service providers."

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