Foxconn makes employee's lives more miserable
The maker of Apple's gadgets which faced a spate of suicides this year, has decided that its worker's lives will improve if strict moral laws are enforced. Foxconn has announced rules that ban workers...
View ArticleRussia bans YouTube for housing extremism
A Russian court in the Far Eastern Federal District has ordered all local internet service providers to block access to Youtube and four other websites which it believes harbour and promote “extremist”...
View ArticleAussie minister lost his job looking for porn
An Aussie minister has lost his job after confessing that he used his government supplied computer to look for porn. Paul McLeay was told to resign after he used a work computer to visit gambling and...
View ArticleApple gamble nod means mobile betting really takes off
Have you ever been to a betting shop? They're terrifying. We guess that's why online gambling has paid off, that and the convenience of depositing a tenner or more in a couple of clicks - it's fast...
View ArticleGamblers should take a hint from bacteria
Chips, Vegas, horses and odds are all words one normally associates with gambling. However, a scientist has just thrown "bacteria" into the mix. According to Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob at the Tel Aviv...
View ArticleEd Vaizey assumes chief role for Brit Porn Police
Ed Vaizey is as confused about child safety online as the rest of us. Following on from his controversial net neutrality speech, he has this week been discussing child safety online. During...
View ArticleEU plans to save us from kiddie porn
The EU might be set to open the can of worms which is internet censorship and demand that nation states block some pornography sites. Members of the European Parliament Monday prepared a position...
View ArticleVast majority of children view online porn
A huge 95 percent of children have accessed porn on the internet, especially during homework time. That's according to BitDefender, which has also found that the average age of a child starting to look...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg talks Baidu partnership in China
It seems Mark Zuckerberg's wining and dining with Baidu's head honchos may pay off. Inside sources have told Chinese news outlet Sohu that the Facebook founder has signed on the dotted line with Baidu...
View ArticleAussie Green politician red-faced over rushed emails
Popular beat combo artist, turned Green politician, Peter Garrett is in hot water after he sent out an email which did not seem to have the same thought that he gave to his 1980's lyrics. Garrett, who...
View ArticleUK hands censorship over to barely trained kids
The UK's move to censor the internet is dependent on a team of university students who have a day or so's training, according to the insecurity outfit McAfee. McAfee creates blacklists of online...
View ArticleReport tears open Olympus' enormous loss hiding scandal
A 200-page report on the biggest corporate scandal Japan has ever faced, Olympus' billion dollar loss-hiding, has been published, and it really is quite messy. The report, writes the Wall Street...
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Ye Booke of Se-Ee-Es
And it came to pass that every year the people in the Land of Technology would gather in the town of Sodem in Los Vegas for the Se-Ee-Es show. Yea, great was the rubbing of shoulders, lapdancing and...
View ArticleUS taking control of the Internet
The US government is trying to enact a law which effectively means that if it is on the web it is on American property. Copyright law expert Michael Geist said that the US was attempting to seize...
View ArticleFacebook falls on its defacebook, again
Investors who took a risk on Facebook last week appear to be receiving egg on their faces – for the third day running.At press time, Facebook’s share price stood at $31.27, a far cry from the $38 it...
View ArticleMicrosoft blocks free software site
Software giant Microsoft appears to have gone on the offensive against the Free Software Federation. The Volish "reputation" database apparently thinks that donate.fsf.org is a gambling site and if you...
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Facebook gambling: Get 'em young?
Just as investors gambled on overhyped Facebook stock before its IPO, Facebook is encouraging its users to do a bit of gambling of their own to bring up its bottom line and further monetise the...
View ArticleFacebook share price saved by storm
Hurricane Sandy appears to have saved the share price of data harvesting operation Facebook for a few days. Shedloads of shares were expected to end up in the market as Facebook staff were allowed to...
View ArticleParents overwhelmingly oppose collecting kid's data online
Parents in the USA have expressed strong concerns about the sharing of children's personal data over the internetIn a survey, released just before law makers decide on a proposal to strengthen child...
View ArticleAntigua punishes US with state blessed "piracy"
Antigua's government has hit on a wizard wheeze to force the US to stop illegally killing off its internet gambling industry. The US government went on a puritan push against online gambling under the...
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