Before US law enforcement officials shut down the Megaupload file sharing web site and arrested several of its employees earlier this month, the FBI obtained a search warrant from a US judge to obtain conversations between Megaupload employees. News.com reports that some of those conversations were critical of Megaupload’s founder, Kim Dotcom. Read more: neowin.net
Thailand has endorsed Twitter’s new censorship policy to block tweets in accordance to a particular country’s laws, calling it a “welcome development”. Thailand’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Ministry said it will work with Twitter to ensure tweets disseminated in the country are in compliance with local laws, the Bangkok Post reported Monday. Read more: […]
The microblogging service Twitter has changed its software support for censoring posts. With the new updates, Twitter can now withdraw individual posts and accounts in specific countries, as opposed to a global deletion. Twitter announced these changes in a blog post on Thursday, and released a clarification update on Friday. Twitter says it needed to […]
A photo contest for gay couples on Facebook for the upcoming Valentine festival is critiziced. The name of the social network Facebook site is ALL FOR MEN. More than 50 gay couples have send their photographs to compete in the contest which ends before the Valentine day. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com
A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed ‘Suomi NPP’ on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner […]
Google Thailand is helping Thai small business operators do business online. The Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (Osmep) plans to conduct business training courses and provide financial support to SMEs this year. The plan is aimed at producing new entrepreneurs and strengthening SMEs ahead of Asean’s integration in 2015. Read more: Bangkok Post
‘Hacktivists’ Anonymous group has published the discography of Sony as a reprisal by the closure of Megaupload, the online file sharing service, and support for soup. Anonymous has posted links on its website’s header, Pastebin, so users can download all the albums produced by Sony. On the occasion of the controversial law soup and Megaupload […]
China has finished production of the first of its Chinese-built magnetically levitated (maglev) trains in Zhuzhou, Hunan. Described as low-cost and eco-friendly, the trains are to begin operating next year on the Daitai line between Haidian District and Beijing. The three-coached trains are able to carry up to 600 passengers and run at a top […]
