Iran
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Experts: Don't clamp down on social media
News Iranian news leaking out via Twitter shows that people will get around communication roadblocks, and experts say businesses can learn lessons from this.
Tags: Web 2.0, Security implementation/standards, Business security, Twitter, Security, Mobile, Howard Schmidt, Iran, Social Media, Mobile Device
At 40, the Internet's still reshaping history
Insight The Net has crushed geographic barriers and withstood extraordinary growing pains. But the human race has work to do adapting to its creation.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Netcraft, WWW, Net, cloud computing, Web 2.0, Web sites, PC, Facebook
Net goes beyond U.S. domain
Insight It's time for the U.S. government to wake up to a new cyber reality--one that is inherently global and depends on an international audience to continue functioning.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Government, International governments
HP darknet 'not for dissidents'
News Technology developed by Hewlett-Packard to enable secure communications networks to be set up via a Web-browser should not be used by dissidents.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Security, Iran, Web Browser, Tool, U.S. Government, File-sharing, researcher
HP printers a hit in Iran
News Despite a trade ban, a third party is selling Hewlett-Packard's products in cities such as Tehran. According to The Boston Globe, that could be a violation of the law.
Tags: Peripherals, Politics, Sales/revenue, Sales strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co., Iran, Boston Globe, printer, Dubai, brand
Storm worm e-mail says US attacked Iran
News The criminal hackers behind the Storm worm botnet are once again using political social engineering to expand their network of compromised computers.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Security, Iran, Payload, E-mail Message, Video, Websense Inc., social engineering, e-mail, security company
WSJ: China bans YouTube
News Chinese officials confirm that they are blocking the Web's largest video site but haven't disclosed the reason.
Tags: Web 2.0, Iran, Google Inc., Thailand, Video, YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Turkey, China, Wall Street Journal
COO: Facebook can build your business, and now we can prove it
News Facebook's COO formally announces the social-networking company's "strategic alliance" to build social-media audience measurement tools with Nielsen.
Tags: Web 2.0, Tool, Australia, social networking, Facebook, brand, market research, emergency service, Web 2.0
Keeping the faith in Silicon Valley
News Spirits are high and ideas are flowing in the cubicles of one startup incubator, Plug and Play Tech Center.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Venture capital, PayPal, Start-up, Palo Alto, Real Estate, Recruiting, Investor, Facebook, recession
Iranian hardliners seek to block info-highway
News The conservative Supreme Cultural Revolution Council in Iran has ruled that private companies cannot provide Internet access in the country.
Virtual restrictions on Iranian under-18s
News In some countries, youngsters below the age of 18 are not allowed to drive. In Iran, under-18s are now being stopped from negotiating the information highway.
Virtual restrictions on Iranian under-18s
News In some countries, youngsters below the age of 18 are not allowed to drive. In Iran, under-18s are now being stopped from negotiating the information highway.
Surfing curbs imposed on Iranian youth
News In some countries, youngsters below the age of 18 are not allowed to drive. In Iran, under-18s are now being stopped from negotiating the information highway.
U.N. summit revives concerns about Net control
News Diplomats head to Athens for a summit that will resume a long-simmering debate about the United States' role on the Internet.
Tags: Domain names
Net censorship on the rise
News Survey by OpenNet Initiative finds 25 out of 41 administrations block or filter Internet content, compared to just a few five years ago.
Tags: Web sites, Government
