King orders blocking of web links to anti-Islam film
“We have told Google to block all YouTube links containing the film. If the company fails to do so we’ll block YouTube completely,” said TITC, the Kingdom’s telecom regulator. Read More
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Massive growth in African mobile internet usage
The report suggests that Opera users in 47% of African countries turn to international news sites before their country’s own reporting, with BBC News most popular in 18 out of 25 of these countries. As for the most popular websites overall, unsurprisingly Facebook leads the pack in most countries, pipped to the post by Google …
Scramble is on for social media users in Africa_businessday
“For us it’s all about enhancing the user experience of Google,” says Ade Oshineye, head of development for Google+ in the Middle East and Africa. Google says since the launch of Google+ in June last year, more than 100-million people have joined in a world all about numbers. These figures cannot be verified, as Google …
Business dominates domain name bids _stuff.co.nz
Amazon.com wants “.joy,” Google wants “.love” and L’Oreal wants “.beauty.” Big brands are behind hundreds of proposals for new Internet addresses, including scores for generic terms such as “cruise,” “.kids” and “.tires.” If approved, Amazon could use “.author” in an attempt to dominate online bookselling, while Google could use “.love” to collect registration fees from …
ICANN OFFICIALY CLOSES THE TAS (TLD online application system)
ICANN the international body that manages and administers the Domain system has officially announced the closure of the TLD Application system that was being used by applicants to submit application for new generic Top Level domains that are slated to significantly change the internet naming system from the current 21. As of 23.00 30th May …