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China cracks down on porn

China is launching a porn crackdown and it wants search leaders Google and Baidu to make sure porn is filtered from search results. by Richard Koman

Tags: China, Baidu.com Inc., Pornography, Video, Crackdown, Corporate Communications, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-05

EU probes U.S. online gambling crackdown

EU probes U.S. online gambling crackdown...Looks like the days of pushing people around are coming to a close. With our economy on the brink of collapse, world opinion at an all time low of our government and a nation of apathetic morons addicted to "reality tv". Yup! our time in...

Tags: Free trade, INTERNET, World Trade Organization, gambling crackdown, online gambling crackdown, government, crackdown

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

EU, U.S. vow crackdown on computer counterfeits

EU, U.S. vow crackdown on computer counterfeitsYou think SOFTWARE with "backdoor" access is badwait till someone happens to test some of these counterfeit system components and finds out that whoever is making them is embedding HARDWARE-based backdoor options into "the guts of the machines". And unfortunately the possibility exists, given...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, crackdown, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Iran shuts down 24 cafes in Net crackdown

Iran shuts down 24 cafes in Net crackdownUSA TodayIn the USA today as well as today's USA Today are couple of notions and articles that are related. Sometimes I think our posts here are picked up fast and this was one on those times because on Friday there was a...

Tags: Gender and diversity, USA Today, cafe, crackdown, women

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herdersI like that !!!Yes indeed...GOOD!!!!Let the Convicted CHOOSE CANING INSTEAD OF JAIL TIME.BUT NO PROBATION.quid pro quoonly if they cane the bastards at enron and other companies that cooked books and ruined lives as wellTrue, at least then they would be productive...Unlike the Linux script...

Tags: Federal government, FBI, herder, crackdown, punishment, Web

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

Spam-scam crackdown nets $2 billion in fake checks

Spam-scam crackdown nets $2 billion in fake checksWhat??? This Is Preposterous!!!I was expecting my $2 million dollar check from Mr. Niaru Ubotooni on Thursday, I swear if he is one of the individuals in this sting I will SUE!!!

Tags: crackdown

Discussion threads 2007-10-03

Crackdown looms for web 'typosquatters'

Crackdown looms for web 'typosquatters'Is your domain typosquattered.Here you can figure that outhttp://veralab.com/dnsdomainsearch/typosquatters.jsp

Tags: Channel management, crackdown, Web

Discussion threads 2006-05-27

VoIP products could face export crackdown

VoIP products could face export crackdownThey just don't want anything...They can't spy on...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP Products, crackdown, VoIP

Discussion threads 2006-04-27

U.S. protests Net-summit crackdown

U.S. protests Net-summit crackdownMore links on that"-The U.S. government on Friday protested a crackdown by Tunisian secret police on the streets"Here's more links on that story:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/INGPQ40MB81.DTLhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4580991.stmI see......so you're saying, in effect, that "he who lives in a glass house should not throw stones". But if that's the case, if no...

Tags: Carl Rapson, crackdown

Discussion threads 2005-11-18

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News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., E-books, Desktops, Networking, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Pakistan continues crackdown on illegal VOIP gateway networks

Talk about a monopoly systemWe would freak out if this happened here in the US.I find it funny that US industry is providing the tech to dictatorships.

Tags: Telephony, VoIP

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Pakistan continues crackdown on illegal VOIP gateway networks

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority PTA has raided and seized 15 IP-based gateways that connected inbound voice traffic from abroad into the country. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: Network, Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, Telephony, VOIP, Networking, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Google exec calls for ISPs to get tough on botnets

I can't agree with a requirement for active A/V.I don't need nor want useless A/V software on my systems.Its inappropriate for an ISP to scan MY machine..for paid access to the interent (when they want to claim they are a "dumb pipe"). If I am spewing out malware - sure,...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, A/V, malware, operating system, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

News to know: MySpace-iLike; Gmail; Twitter; Sony Ericsson; Secure smartphones

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: MySpace to acquire social music service iLike for $20 million Matthew Miller: Push Gmail comes to the...

Tags: Google Gmail, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Dana Blankenhorn, Smart Phone, Andrew Nusca, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail Providers, E-mail, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Smart Phones, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-08-18

UK faces file-sharing crackdown

Thieves that steal copyrighted...material have ruined P2P for legitimate users. Fines are obviously not enough and perhaps it is time to move to jail time. I'm not even sure warnings are appropriate anymore. everyone has been warned enough. Downloading copyrighted material is stealing and jail time is what most thieves...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), file-sharing crackdown, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

The incredible shrinking GOOG! 25% smaller...

oddmaybe that's how they're making google faster - just by indexing less?Analysis is way too simpleSimply looking at the number of returned results is a useless criterion for determining search quality. I Googled my name and got 489,000 results - none of the first 30 or so referred to me....

Tags: Web browsers, Noone, Paradigm-Shift, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repression

The thing that stinks - to Western noses - about this whole Green Dam story is the idea that China wants to go to all this trouble, to the point of having a serious showdown with the U.S. over it, over porn. I mean, porn ... if people want it,...

Tags: Google Inc., Pornography, Government, Vertical Industries, TVs, Benefits, Healthcare, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Green Dam definitively blocks political sites - and creates security breach

Despite China's claims that Green Dam Youth Escort - the spyware the government has commanded shall be installed on all new PCs - is merely a porn filter, it's now clear that the software filters a whole bunch of political content. According to The Wall Street...

Tags: Software, Security, Content, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-11

FTC cracks down on robocalls

FTC cracks down on robocallsThe problem: Caller ID can be spoofedI once called AT&T to query about the particular caller ID number that showed up during a robocall. They said the number was bogus. I asked them how it was possible that the caller ID number can be spoofed,...

Tags: caller ID, FTC, caller id number

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rules

updated below: Craigslist apparently has caved to the pressures of state attorneys general who cracked the whip on the "erotic services" section of the site. The Illinois Attorney General has said that craigslist will get rid of the "erotic" services category on the classified site and will...

Tags: Craigslist, Advertisement, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-13