Tech and WEB

Battle for human rights increasingly fought on Internet: US - 2010-03-11

WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael - The United States said Thursday that the battle for human rights is increasingly being fought on the Internet as China, Iran and other states try to block access by...

More than three-quarters see Internet as right: report - 2010-03-09

LONDON - More than three-quarters of people across the world believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right, a poll carried out for the BBC indicated Monday. The poll, which questioned more...

Australians more likely to pay for online movies than news - 2010-03-05

SYDNEY - Australians are more likely to pay for music and movies online than to hand over money to read newspapers on the Internet, a survey released Thursday said. The Nielsen research found that...

Egypt blogger faces military trial - 2010-03-02

CAIRO- An Egyptian blogger detained for writing a post critical of the armed forces faced a military court on Monday accused of "publishing false information about a military institution." Student...

China's 'bridge blogs' show Great Firewall's other side - 2010-02-23

SHANGHAI, D'Arcy Doran - Whether it is about US arms sales to Taiwan or how the film epic "Confucius" stacks up to "Avatar", the world's first snapshot of Chinese opinion often comes from...

Wartime Vatican archives to go online - 2010-02-16

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican will soon make some of its World War II archives available for free on the Internet, the Holy See's daily l'Osservatore Romano said on Monday. The 8,000 pages of...

US plans more talks with China on Google row: diplomat - 2010-01-20

WASHINGTON - The US and Chinese governments have had "multiple meetings" about a row between Google and China over Internet freedom, and plan to have more in the next few days, a senior US diplomat...

Mr Bean 'invades' Spain's EU website - 2010-01-04

MADRID- Some visitors to Spain's EU presidency website were Monday directed to a blog that showed Mr Bean instead of the country's prime minister, whose resemblance to the hapless comic character is...

Bono calls for control over Internet downloads - 2010-01-04

WASHINGTON - Irish rock star Bono called Sunday for tougher controls over the spread of intellectual property over the Internet, arguing that file swiping and sharing hurt creators of cultural...

Curtain falling on 'Digital Decade' - 2009-12-28

WASHINGTON, Chris Lefkow - While it got off to a rocky start with the overhyped Y2K bug and dotcom bubble, the era dubbed the "Digital Decade" by Microsoft's Bill Gates has turned out to be a...
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