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Top News: Uninvited ads on Android | Xbox TV platform debuts | Facebook buys Gowalla

Mobile Marketing: Sneaky mobile ads invade Android phones. Convergence: Microsoft rolls out Xbox TV platform. Social Media: Facebook   [...]
Posted: Monday, December 5th 2011

Israeli Gov't Holds First Twitter Press Conference

On Dec. 30, microblogging service Twitter hosted its first governmental press conference on behalf of Israel's Defense Forces -- whose microblogging tag was @IsraelConsulate. Questions and answers were limited to 140 characters, the standard length of a Twitter message or "tweet." So even answers to the most complex questions -- about which entire books have been written -- had to be short and swe  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 5th 2009

Aussie Gov't to Pilot Nationwide 'Net Filter

The Australian government is moving forward with plans to implement a nationwide online filter of objectionable material. The filter is one component of an $82 million cybersafety effort to protect children from exploitation and discourage adults from downloading illegal content, including terrorist materials or child pornography,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 16th 2008

Indian Gov May Censor Google Earth

Following last month's terrorist situation in Mumbai, legal advocates in India demand that the country's High Court implement a "blur" on certain locations featured in Google Earth. Earlier this week it was revealed that the terrorists used a number of so-called "new" technologies, includi  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 12th 2008

Google Zeitgeist Unearths Global Interest in Socializing, Politics

Equipped with data from over 30 countries, the objective of Google's Year-End Zeitgeist is to hone in on topics of global interest. In 2008, "Sarah Palin," "Beijing 2008" and "Facebook login" topped the fastest-rising topics worldwide: Meanwhile, top-of-min  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 10th 2008

HuffPo's 'World Affairs' Enlists Bloggers Queen Noor, John Kerry

The Huffington Post, one of the fastest-growing independent political sites this year, is launching a World Affairs section. The new channel shall include analysis from US foreign policy experts and bloggers worldwide. Contributors are expected to include Queen Noor of Jordan, John Kerry and Harvard professor Joseph Nye. Correspondents are expected to represent over 50 countries, and syndicated editorial content will also be f  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 5th 2008

Economist Gives World a Vote in US Presidential Election

London-based business rag The Economist has created a global version of the US Electoral College, based on the population of each country. The magazine hopes to stimulate online brand engagement through the effort, which leverages overseas interest in the US election -- a "closely watched contest" worldwide, said VP Ron Diorio of product and community development in New York. "We thought it would be fun and a bit of an educa  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 24th 2008

875MM Consumers Shopped Online, Up 40% in 2 Years

Over 85 percent of the global online population has used the internet to make a purchase, increasing the market for online shopping by 40 percent in the past two years, according to the Nielsen Global Online Survey on internet shopping habits,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 30th 2008

Microlender Kiva Runs Out of Loan Recipients

Kiva, a nonprofit site that organizes microloans for entrepreneurs in developing countries, has run out of people to lend to. In toto, Kiva brought in $19.5 million worth of loans from 220,000 lenders, reports The New York Times. Though it may seem risky to dole $450 out to a r  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 29th 2008

Influential World Citizens Just Not Happy with Big Corporations

Most of the world's most engaged citizens say large companies wield too much influence on government decisions. Furthermore, they want aggressive action against the activities and influence of national and multinational corporations, according to a new Ipsos survey. The poll of 22,000 people, covering 22 of the world's leading and burgeoning powerhouse economies, finds   [...]
Posted: Friday, January 4th 2008

'One Laptop Per Child' to Unroll 3 Million Units in October

The One Laptop Per Child project's $175 "XO" machines will finally kick off in October, as governments have ordered the 3 million minimum volume needed to begin mass production, reports The Globe and Mail. The "XO" laptop is the ultimate in utilitarian computing, featuring an open-source interface designed for   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 24th 2007

YouTube Pulls Video of McCain Singing 'Bomb Iran'

YouTube said Friday it had erroneously deleted and would restore a video of presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu song about bombing Iran, reports CNET. During a campaign stop in South Carolina last week, the Arizona senator sang the tune of the Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann," but wit  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 2007

Agency Almighty Rolls out Gore's Climate Project

Full-service agency Almighty is prepping campaigns for Al Gore's the Climate Project, including a WOM training program for volunteers. The Climate Project push centers on the redesign of theclimateproject.org to help manage the nonprofit group's training program for volunteers who will become evangelists for the global warming presentation featured in Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 21st 2006

Repressive States Chided for Net Censorship

Reporters Without Borders has compiled a list of the countries it says are the worst offenders in censoring the internet. The Paris-based group recently staged 24-hour protests in public spaces in New York and Paris to condemn 13 countries for their censorship of internet journalists, writes BusinessWeek. The 17,000 or so attendees of the protests v  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 10th 2006

U.S. Retains Control of Internet's Core Addressing System

Control of the internet's root directory, which enables any user anywhere in the world to locate any webpage, will remain with the United States. The European Union, in particular, has been critical of the Department of Commerce's influence over the internet's core addressing system and has pushed for control to be handed off to an independent body, the Financial Times reports. The U.S. has licensed contr  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 2nd 2006

Amnesty: U.S. Net Giants Violate Human Rights Declaration

Amnesty International has accused three of the net's largest players, among others, of violating the Universal Declaration on Human Rights by cooperating with China's censors. Microsoft, Google and Yahoo, and others, are colluding with China's efforts to censor the internet and are in denial over the human rights implications of their actions - and ignore their own stated commitments - Amnesty said, according to a Reu  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 20th 2006

Al-Qaida Seeks Web Editing, Video Production Help

Internet-savvy Al-Qaida has put job advertisements on the web, asking for supporters to help put together its web statements and video montages, according to the London-based Arabic-language Asharq al-Awsat, Reuters reports. Apparently, al-Qaida had "vacant positions" for video production and for editing statements, footage and international media coverage about militants in Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya and other   [...]
Posted: Friday, October 7th 2005

U.N. Wants to Run the Net, U.S. Says No

The United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is ready to take over the internet's governance from the U.S., ITU head Yoshio Utsumi said on Friday, a day after the U.S. clashed with much of the world at a two-week conference preparing for a U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, in Tunisia, in November, reports Reuters. The U.S. now manages the internet via  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 3rd 2005

French-Funded 'Quaero' to Tackle Google, Yahoo

French president Jacques Chirac this week said France would help fund a new European internet search engine to rival Google and Yahoo and promised to counter the threat of Anglo-Saxon cultural imperialism, writes the U.K.'s Telegraph (via paidcontent). "We're engaged in a global com  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 1st 2005

Google Goals Translate Well Online

Google's goal of making the web accessible to everyone, everywhere got a boost from a U.S. government-run test of which translation software works best, when Google's outperformed those of IBM and academia, reports CNET. Google scored the highest in the Arabic-to-English and Chinese-to-English translation tests conducted by the National Institute of Science and Technology. Google i  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 24th 2005