Tag archive: Vietnam

Internet giant Google says it has identified another international cyberattack—only this one isn't aimed at ferreting out information about Chinese human rights activits, but at suppressing criticism of a controversial, Chinese-led bauxite mining operation in Vietnam. According to Google, the attack is “less sophisticated” then the operation that compromised Google's systems in China: the malware has been… Read More

In a change of direction, Vietnamese media has reported that the country’s government is tightening up rules on blogging, banning topics deemed inappropriate by the government, and allowing “clean and wholesome” language only, with blogs forced to followed Vietnamese law, the BBC reports. ISPs hosting blogs will be held responsible for their content. It’s an interesting turn of affairs for a country where many rely… Read More

If the art of “sniping,” items on eBay, e-mailing sellers with off-the-record offers, and attempting to figure out hidden reserve prices isn’t enough of a game for you, a new online marketplace called Fididel might just satisfy your need for flea-market-style haggling. The site allows buyers to connect with people selling items they want, then try to shimmy the prices down in negotiations. Although the bartering concept… Read More

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

Seven years ago eBay entered the Japanese market. Two years later it was forced to retreat, tail firmly between its legs, unable to compete in a country where theonline auction market was dominated by Yahoo Japan.   But what a difference time makes. Now the pair of titans have agreed to work together in the onlineauction business in Japan, according to an Associated Press story, in a move that will make it easier for Japanese to buy goods… Read More

Yahoo has released a beta version of Yahoo Messenger 9 for Windows, the latest edition of its instant messaging software. In addition to a whole new look and feel, the new version adds an inline media player that lets users shape images, maps, and even video from sites like Yahoo Video and YouTube with no extra downloads. Yahoo Messenger 9 features a new look and feel for the all-important contact list, offering both an image-filled… Read More

Reporters Without Frontiers have released their Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007, and it highlights not only the problems with press freedom for traditional journalists around the globe, but also the threat to bloggers.   A number of countries have seen their rankings fall because of the way they’ve restricted or violated the freedom of bloggers. Several countries, like Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Egypt, have arrested bloggers… Read More

With iPhone carrier contracts settled in the United Kingdom and Germany, France became the next major European nation for Apple to scratch off its list on Thursday, when France Telecom’s Orange network announced it would become the exclusive iPhone carrier in the country. According to Reuters, CEO Didier Lombard broke the news at an industry conference in Vietnam, confirming rumors that have been swirling over carrier selection for… Read More

Given Google’s past reputation for privacy concerns, it would seem like the least likely company to lecture the United Nations on the topic, but that’s exactly what a company representative will do on Friday in France. Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel, will present to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at a conference in Strasbourg, France, urging stricter… Read More

Geneology and family history site Ancestry.com has launched the largest online collection of U.S. military records, spanning som 90 million names from the 1600s through the Vietnam era. The collection also includes the only complete collection of World War I draft registration cards, The Stars and Stripes newspaper from World Wars I and II, along with World War II counter-propaganda United Newsreels produced by the Office of War… Read More

A year-long study by the OpenNet Initiative, detailed at a conference in Oxford, England, examined the practices of 41 countries to learn about online government surveillance and censorship. The results? Where five years ago only a handful of states were filtering Internet content, the study found 25 of the countries it examined were engaged in state-mandated filtering and censorship of online content, and the filtering is becoming more… Read More

As part of its 24-hour online demonstration against online censorship, international watchdog organization Reporters Without Borders has released a list of 13 nations it dubs “enemies of the Internet” for restricting speech and suppressing freedom of expression on the Internet. And the organization is also inviting visitors to sound off to Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang regarding the company's involvement in the Chinese… Read More

With all the recent bruhaha in the U.S. about corporate employees being disciplined or pink-slipped over personal blog entries which reveal trade secrets or say unflattering things about their employers, it's easy to forget that, in many parts of the world, the consequences of posting unpopular or unsanctioned material online can be much higher. To that end, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans Frontières, known by its… 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

Quote from the review at Motherboards.org: “I almost gave this card an Editor's Choice award as just about everything about it rocked. In my time with the card, it's proven to be silky smooth in everything I've tried it on. The bundle just adds to the value of the card. Thief: Deadly Shadows is a fun thought-provoking game. Joint Operations is a great multiplayer game that was what Battlefield Vietnam should have… Read More