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YouTube hacked because of Justin Bieber: It's your fault!
July 05, 2010By Stela Roman On Independence Day YouTube has become the target of a hacker attack, specifically targeting videos of the new american pop singer Justin Bieber. It sounds like Bieber fever is getting dangerous! Shortly after the incident Google explained...
Why China hates Google? The red censor doesn't sleep
July 03, 2010By Stela Roman On Thursday, China blocked a Google search feature. The users were unable to use «suggest» feature, which shows possible results the user could be interested in while typing a query. Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell...
YouTube won the battle against Viacom
June 28, 2010By Stela Roman On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Louis Stanton in New York threw out Viacom's hotly contested $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google's YouTube. The federal judge said that the popular video...
OSCE media freedom representative asks Turkey to withdraw recent Internet blocking provisions
June 22, 2010Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today urged the Turkish authorities to restore access to YouTube and other services offered by Google, and bring the much-criticized Law No. 5651 - known as the Internet Law - in line with...
Ex-financial analyst teaches math on YouTube for free (video)
March 26, 2010By Rachel Silverman A 33 year old financial analyst in California recently quit his job to devote himself to an unpaid job teaching math on the Internet, and his lessons are reaching almost 100,000 people a month. In this week's edition of Making...
Google to redirect Chinese services through Hong Kong
March 22, 2010The Internet company Google is following through on a promise to stop censoring search results in China. The widely-used Internet search company says it will redirect its Chinese services through its Hong Kong computer facilities to circumvent China's...
Activists see social media as key tool in fight against extremism
March 12, 2010By Selah Hennessy Average citizens are using the Internet and mobile phones to fight violence, and the movement is set to grow. That was the message of a two-day London summit in which social media activists from around the world met to explore ways...
2009 most popular video: Susan Boyle's video tops YouTube
December 17, 2009Susan Boyle, UK's Got Talent runner-up, was the star of the most popular video of 2009 on YouTube video site. The Scottish singer's surprising rendition of I Dreamed A Dream on the show has been watched by more than 120 million viewers worldwide. The...
Nokia Faces Wrath Of Iran's Protesters
July 15, 2009By Golnaz Esfandiari Ehsan doesn't personally own a Nokia, and over the past few weeks the 26-year-old Tehran resident has actively tried to ensure that friends and family -- or anyone else who will listen -- don't buy the mobile-phone giant's products...
Turkey's YouTube Ban Is Cause For Concern
July 08, 2009By Claire Berlinski Very few people in Turkey are exercised by the YouTube blackout, now in its second year. Despite the ban, the video-sharing site is believed to be the ninth most popular site in Turkey. Almost every Internet user -- from Prime Minister...