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Submission + - Yandex Releases Chromium Based Browser (yandex.com)

Submitted by anonimim on Monday October 01, 2012 @03:15PM

anonimim writes: Russian search engine Yandex released it's browser called "Yandex.Browser" today. It's based on Chromium and features some customizations such as Kaspersky powered anti-virus protection, a smart launch page called Tableu that shows you "up-to-date information about the weather and traffic, as well as social network notifications."

Currently, Yandex.Browser is only available for Windows and Mac, but launch page says Linux version is being worked on.

Comment Re:Citation Needed (Score 4, Informative) 100

by anonimim on Friday March 16, 2012 @10:21AM (#39376979) Attached to: Turkey Bans Pastebin and Tinyurl

According to this article from a major Turkish newspaper, related authority in charge (BTK) revised and lifted the Tinyurl.com ban today! Ban was in effect since the 1st of March, so it's probably lifted due to recent press coverage. Engelliweb includes a catalog of blocked websites in Turkey. You can check related pages for Tinyurl and Pastebin to confirm the bans. Linked article was from the February, when BTK databases were leaked to Pastebin. So it doesn't cover the recent events.

Submission + - Turkey bans Pastebin and Tinyurl

Submitted by anonimim on Thursday March 15, 2012 @11:07AM

anonimim writes: Pastebin and Tinyurl, two highly popular web services has been recently blocked in Turkey.

Pastebin is blocked last week by a court decision about the recent hacking of Turkish Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK). Four databases including email addresses and plain-text passwords stolen from BTK website was posted to Pastebin last month, in retaliation to blocking of Blogspot, Incisozluk (a popular Turkish community dictionary) and other thousands of websites.

The more shocking ban was that of Tinyurl, a URL shortening service blocked by the 1st of March on behalf of the BTK, without a court decision. Turkish Internet users amazed by the absurdity of the BTK's decision as Tinyurl does not store any content itself but only serve pointers to online resources.

Turkey currently blocks thousands of websites and classified as one of the countries under surveillance by the 2012 Internet Enemies report published last week by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

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