Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to task today for blocking Twitter in his country.…
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Anti-censorship app Lantern wants to become the [email protected] of free speech
The anti-censorship project Lantern wants give users in countries like China and Iran access to blocked websites through a distributed network of proxies.…
Read MoreNew frontiers in Twitter diplomacy: Barack Obama, the president of Iran, and Jack Dorsey
First the president of Iran has a back-and-forth with U.S. president Barack Obama on the occasion of their historic phone call, then he responds to a question from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey about free speech in Iran.…
Read MoreIs Iran easing up on Facebook and Twitter? Not according to Iran
When the filters stopping Iranians from using popular Western social media services evaporated on Monday, some suspected a thaw in the country's censorship policies. They were wrong.…
Read MorePayPal apologizes for blocking sales of photo book with “Iranian” in the title
"Iranian Living Room" (which is not produced by Iranians) documents domestic scenes in the country during its recent elections. PayPal admits its system for automatically blocking sales of sanctions-busting Iranian items shouldn't target books.…
Read MoreProject Loon: Google’s biggest obstacle isn’t technology. It’s politics
Mesh networking and dirigibles have been around for decades. What truly makes Project Loon a difficult -- if not impossible -- undertaking is getting the world's governments to agree to it.…
Read MoreTips for preventing the iOS in-app purchase hack, plus 4 other Apple stories to read today
Here's our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn't miss. Today's installment: Tips for avoiding giving in-app content away for free, Apple's really big in Iran despite sanctions, how Apple contributes to the U.S. economy through spending and more.…
Read MoreExcuses for a shrinking PC market, and 4 other Apple stories to read today
Here's our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web you shouldn't miss. Today's installment: PC market apologists, Apple stores' policy on selling gadgets to Iran, The Daily isn't doing that well, how Aereo's victory could benefit Apple, and Time Warner's hopes for Apple TV.…
Read MoreA new frontier for clean power: the Middle East
It’s got dry, sunny climate and an addiction to fossil fuels, and it’s set to become a hot spot for renewable energy development, especially solar. It’s the Middle East, where countries such as Saudi Arabia subsidize electricity generation by using their own oil and where natural gas is the main source of power for United Arab Emirates.…
Read MoreActivists vow to defeat Iran’s Internet censorship
Iran is tightening its grip on the Internet before Friday's parliamentary elections, but activists from Tor and related projects vow to keep up the free flow of information. That's the best thing the world can do for the country, says the founder of Iran's Reddit.…
Read MoreHow much should we trust our new information overlords?
The news that Twitter will be censoring tweets has reinforced for many the fact that our freedoms exist at the mercy of the companies whose networks we are using -- and being used by. How much trust should we have in these new information gatekeepers?…
Read MoreDo we have a right to use Twitter and Facebook?
A Wall Street Journal columnist says that blocking access to social media during emergencies isn't a big deal, and that "techno-utopians" are over-reacting. But are they? Or are these kinds of moves a step on a slippery slope that leads to Chinese-style control over information networks?…
Read MoreGovernments Still Trying to Kill, Replace or Undo the Web
As countries like Iran and Syria step up their attempts to filter and even shut down access to the Internet, a new UNESCO report looks at the attempts by repressive governments around the world to censor and corral free speech on the Internet.…
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Call it cybersabotage Monday. A series of news reports increasingly point to Iran — and specifically, Iran’s nuclear power and uranium enrichment…
Read MoreHaystack Plays With Fire, Gets Badly Burned
The creators of a software project called Haystack claimed their software would allow Iranian dissidents to surf the web anonymously by encrypting their activity and hiding it among other web traffic, but the project has been shut down after security analysts said these claims were false.…
Read MoreAnonymous Citizen Journalists Receive Polk Award for YouTube Video
The anonymous Iranian citizens who captured and distributed the shooting death of a demonstrator during last year’s Iranian re-election protests have received…
Read MoreBiz Stone Talks Up the Future of Twitter
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says his company’s technology will evolve based on what its users are doing on the microblogging site; only…
Read MoreFTC to Take a Deep Look at DPI?
In the battle over consumer privacy, it looks like information gleaned from deep packet inspection may be under fire, according to a…
Read More“Neda” Death Video Captures Global Hearts
In the two days since her death, a young Iranian woman has already become a legend, a martyr and a focal point…
Read MoreFor YouTube, Iranian Uprising Is Business As Usual
Thanks to countless videos of the Iranian uprising now being streamed on its system, YouTube may suddenly seem to be at the…
Read MoreIran's Election As Seen Through the ISPs
The protests in Iran that have come in the wake of the country’s June 13 election results, which returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…
Read MoreVid-Biz: DirecTV, Fred, VOD
DirecTV to Provide Local Ads; satellite co. using INVIDI software; advertisers can dynamically target by household, street, political district and more; ads…
Read MoreTwitter Amplifies Obama's Muted Iran Policy
Twitter got an interesting tech support call from a highly unique customer today: The Obama Administration, via the U.S. State department, which…
Read MoreObama on Video: Leno and Iran
By bringing his messages to different media, President Obama is making history. Last night he was the first sitting president to appear…
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