AFP reveals that “Pakistan has ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing ‘blasphemous’ content and material considered offensive to Islam. […] An inter-ministerial committee has decided to block YouTube because it contained ‘blasphemous content, videos and documents,’ a government official told AFP. ‘The site will [...]
According to the New York Times, “EU and U.S. senior officials said on Friday they would crack down on counterfeiting of computer components after they seized over 360,000 fake items in just two weeks in a joint operation at the end of last year. Integrated circuits and computer components of [...]
According to InfoWorld, “[o]ver the past two years virus writers have increasingly targeted their malicious programs to users in different regions of the globe, creating programs that are specially designed to infect users in countries like Japan, Brazil, China or Germany. Take the taunting Trojan, which goes after users of [...]
Earlier today, Microsoft made an announcement so big it nearly blew up their conference call system. Microsoft executives Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia, and Brad Smith participated in a press conference call where they announced a new set of Interoperability Principles. While the specifics will take a while to [...]
The Washington Post reports that “[s]ome of the top technology companies, including Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Advanced Micro Devices joined forces Tuesday to form the PC Gaming Alliance, which will try to promote the PC as a gaming platform. e alliance will bring hardware makers, software companies and game publishers [...]
