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MouthShut.com files a Petition before SC about the vague IT Laws, 2011

Posted May 5, 2013 by Roshan Ashraf Shaikh

A week ago, Faisal Farooqui, CEO of MouthShut.com, a website which provides consumers to write user reviews on any products or service in India, filed a write petition before the Supreme Court to remove IT Rules (Intermediaries Guidelines) 2011 14, 19 and 21. Farooqui said that there have been a ‘very small’ percentage of companies [...]

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Google To Provide $35-Per-Month Gigabit Internet Via Vermont Telephone Co., Other ISPs Forced to Change their Service Plans

Posted April 27, 2013 by Roshan Ashraf Shaikh

Google is kicking it in high gear when it comes to high gear and leaving no stone turned as they’re providing their gigabit broadband connection to Vermont via Vermont Telephone Co. which provides internet connections to upto 17,500 homes. Currently the company has provided the new gigabit connections to upto 600 household in Vermont. Vermont [...]

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PayPal’s President showing signs of interest to include Bitcoin

Posted April 25, 2013 by Roshan Ashraf Shaikh

During a video interview in Bloomberg, Paypal’s President David Marcus said that he is very interested in the virtual company and that his company is thinking about including Bitcoin one day. David Marcus also said in a response a question put forward by Bloomberg’s interviewer: So I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at [...]

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15 year old started a social networking site using a pre-built website template, but claimed to develop it and some media guys just believed it!

Posted July 5, 2012 by Moksh Mridul

15 Year-old Prithvi Raj Amin claimed to develop Social Networking Site “Youflix” used nothing more than PHPfox and “Y” logo ‘inspired’ from Yahoo’s logo. Listen

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“Tit For Tat” is the new strategy against Hacktivist group Anonymous as companies plans to fight back

Posted June 19, 2012 by Moksh Mridul

With the rise of groups such as Anonymous & LulzSec, frequent attacks on corporations has become common place in the daily news. So much so that it doesn’t even make the front page anymore. But as it was inevitable that corporations have decided to fight back. Listen

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Google does the right thing by putting up information regarding the truck-load of censor requests

Posted June 19, 2012 by Moksh Mridul

Google is working hard to prove that its practising its own informal motto “Don’t Be Evil&quot as its showing the world its inner functioning by publishing Transparency Program- where its shows the world all the statistics related to take down notices and other removal requests. Listen

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Skype or Jail for 15 years (if you live in Ethiopia) take your pick!!

Posted June 18, 2012 by Moksh Mridul

If censorship in the form or SOPA and CISPA weren’t enough, using Skype and/or GTalk just got a whole lot more complicated for Ethiopians. Listen

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Reliance ISP (..and Tikona) blocks access to The Pirate Bay..and Vimeo (lulwutwtf- vimeo???)

Posted May 4, 2012 by Roshan Ashraf Shaikh

If you thought blocking file-sharing is stupid enough, wait till you get this: Reliance Communications and Tikona ISP has Blocked access to The Pirate Bay and Vimeo. First thought in anyone’s mind: Why Vimeo? What was Reliance even thinking when they decided to block Vimeo-  a movie sharing website no different than Youtube?? Listen

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“Cartoons against Corruption” website suspended by BigRock, Indian ISP resorting to Censorship.

Posted January 18, 2012 by Roshan Ashraf Shaikh

A bad start for 2012 as it starts with the cartoonist Aseem Trivedi’s website Cartoonagainstcorruption.com i.e. hosted by BigRock is being shut down without any legal notice or any notification from the hosting company. Listen

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Razer takes a stand: F**K SOPA!!!

Posted January 15, 2012 by Roshan Ashraf Shaikh

Very recently Razer has made an announcement and its really nice to see some from the PC H/W business making their stand clear: They are against SOPA. Listen

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