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China, North Korea, Burma…they’re places where protest has been crushed. But yesterday people demonstrated against Net censorship in virtual locations from those countries.  Organized by the group Reporters Without Borders, the first Online Free Expression Day invited people to create avatars and take part in demonstrations in virtuallocations where protest would not be allowed in the real world.   In a statement RWB said,… Read More

While One Laptop Per Child computers are already slated to have a handful of open-source games included on them, one major game publisher will take that list of games to the next level by donating an old-school classic from its archives. Electronic Arts announced on Thursday that it would donate the original 1989  version of SimCity on every OLPC sold. Besides being a fun way to get kids using the computer, EA believes SimCity can… Read More

Online payment service—and eBay subsidiary—PayPal has announced it has expanded its reach to 87 new national markets, and had finally made its primary site available in three new languages. The new additions make PayPal available in 190 markets around the world. As of today, users will also be able to access the main PayPal site—and all online transaction processes—in Spanish, French, or simplified Chinese.… Read More

The World Economic Forum has published its Global Information Technology Report 2006–2007 “Network Readiness Index” (PDF), an assessment of 122 countries' ability to take advantage of information and communication technologies, both in terms of their adoption and deployment but also taking into consideration the nations' overal business climates, government policies and regulation, and the preparedness and… Read More

Mature markets in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific will add 150 million new PCs to the world market by 2010. More significant growth will come from emerging markets, for which Forrester forecasts that 566 million new PCs will be in use by 2010, up from 75 million in 2003, a 31% CAGR. Competition for market share will pit industry leaders like Dell and HP against local emerging market manufacturers and fundamentally change the rules of the… Read More