The European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA) has spoken out against ISP internet filtering, saying that it is an ineffective band-aid that leaves illegal material online and in the wild — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After nearly fifty years of persevering with a life under her husband’s surname, 75-year-old Kyoko Tsukamoto is taking the Japanese government to court so that she can at least bear her own name when she dies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Canadian maker of the Blackberry smartphone, Research In Motion (RIM), has agreed to make pornographic websites inaccessible to Indonesian users of the phone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On Saturday morning, a gunman shot Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords while she was meeting with constituents outside a Safeway store in Tucson, Arizona, and then apparently kept on shooting, leaving six people (including a nine-year-old girl) dead and Rep. Giffords in critical condition.
While the rest of the world was wishing Gifford well, mourning the dead, and denouncing the vitriol that encourages such violence, Travis Corcoran, the president of online comics retailer Heavy Ink, put up a post on his personal blog titled 1 down, 534 to go
. Corcoran was, of course, referring to the 535 members of Congress — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mr Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old Facebook chief executive and co-founder, may be the man of the moment in the United States and much of the rest of the online world. But here in Japan, one of the globe’s most wired nations, few people have heard of him.
And relatively few Japanese use Facebook, the global social-networking phenomenon based in Palo Alto, Calif., that recently added its 583 millionth member worldwide.
Facebook users in Japan number fewer than two million, or less than 2 percent of the country’s online population. That is in sharp contrast to the United States, where 60 percent of Internet users are on Facebook, according to the analytics site Socialbakers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Louisiana doctor and the owner of a medical equipment company have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in a scheme to submit around $775,000 in fraudulent Medicare claims.
Federal prosecutors said most of the bogus claims submitted by Dr Dahlia Kirkpatrick and Emmanuel Komandu, owner of Alpha Medical Solutions Inc in Baker, involved unnecessary prescriptions for medical equipment, including power wheelchairs and feeding nutrients — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Icelandic politicians have blasted US demands for Twitter to hand over a member of parliament’s account details. Birgitta Jonsdottir faces investigation as one of several people connected to the website WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mexican police found the bodies of 15 slain men, 14 of them headless, on a street outside a shopping centre in the resort city of Acapulco on Saturday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The chemical that turned Goldstream River green can cause allergic reactions in people, a medical health officer for Vancouver Island Health Authority said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A good Samaritan and his Great Dane came to the aid of a girl who was being attacked Thursday in the Logan Square neighborhood and kept the suspect at bay until police arrived — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Plans to cut disability benefits could breach human rights laws, the government has been warned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Greens leader Bob Brown says he expects criticism after his party received the biggest political donation in Australian history — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian diplomats were quick to absolve Japanese whalers of blame for the collision that sank the anti-whaling vessel Ady Gil a year ago, telling the US embassy in Canberra the Japanese would ‘come away clean
from any investigation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Icelandic MP who once worked with WikiLeaks says US officials have subpoenaed her personal details from the social networking website Twitter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Aussie electronics entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan has warned that billionaire retailer Gerry Harvey won’t stop at getting his way over GST and duty regulations for offshore retailers, but could ask for additional tariffs or subsidies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internet service provider Dodo has copped $26,400 in fines from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over advertisements for its ADSL2+ Unlimited broadband plan, which the regulator deemed misleading to consumers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tens of thousands of fraudulent iTunes accounts are for sale on a major Chinese website, it has been revealed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The RSPCA is calling on all levels of Government to take pets into account in future flood preparations, as it launches an appeal for donations to feed animals displaced by Queensland’s devastating floods — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Just yesterday, we mentioned that new consumer laws meant that items sold on a contract should be covered by a warranty for the life of that contract. Proving the point, the ACCC has negotiated a court-enforceable undertaking with Optus that means phones sold on a 24-month deal will be under warranty for that entire period — even for iPhone owners — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An English woman’s grieving process has been made easier by the revelation that the biological child of her sister’s lesbian partner is also her grandchild — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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