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Archive for the Category ‘Technology’

Blogger Auto Pagination Speeds Page Loads but Angers Bloggers

Blogger Auto Pagination Speeds Page Loads but Angers Bloggers

Susan’s Blogging Blog, by Susan Gunelius, Thursday February 25, 2010Last week, Blogger rolled out Auto Pagination, which automates the amount of content that is displayed on Blogger blog pages based on the amount of HTML and and images on each page. Go…

Mobile Phones Become Banks in Developing Countries

Mobile Phones Become Banks in Developing Countries

The Jakarta Herald, Celine Cornu, February 23, 2010 Barcelona. An Afghan police officer gets his salary in a text message on his mobile phone. A Kenyan worker dials a few numbers to send money to his family. The rise of banking transactions through mobil…

China’s President Signs Up for Microblogging

China’s President Signs Up for Microblogging

The Jakarta Herald, February 22, 2010Chinese President Hu Jintao. China’s President Hu Jintao has set up a microblogging account that has drawn thousands of followers as of Monday, in a country where social networking sites remain tightly controlled. …

Cashing in on Internet censorship

Cashing in on Internet censorship

CNN, by Lara Farrar for CNN, February 19, 2010Scaling the wall: Firewall breaching tools are booming in countries clamping down on Internet freedom. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Companies providing tools to avoid Web access restrictions see big rise in businessV…

Minister warned against regulating multimedia content

Minister warned against regulating multimedia content

Erwida Maulia, The Jakarta Herald, Jakarta | Thu, 02/18/2010 8:29 PM President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has warned Communications and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring against regulating multimedia contents, a plan that sparked strong protests …

Sri Lanka cannot use its fund for net censorship: World Bank

Sri Lanka cannot use its fund for net censorship: World Bank

Antara News, Wednesday, February 17, 2010 15:52 WIB Colombo (The Jakarta Herald/Asia Pulse) – The World Bank said money given for Sri Lanka’s telecom regulator cannot be used for net censorship activities following reports that Chinese expertise would be hi…

Nokia and Intel merge high-end software

Nokia and Intel merge high-end software

Reuters, Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:58am EST BARCELONA (Reuters) – Nokia and Intel will merge their top-end smartphone software as they face increasing pressure from cellphone industry newcomers Google and Apple. The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on…

Google acquires Aardvark

Google acquires Aardvark

Google Blog, 2/12/2010 11:05:00 AMWhen you need an answer to a very specific question, sometimes the information just isn’t online in one simple place. For example, let’s say you want to know if there’s snow on Skyline Boulevard on a given day or the b…

Chinese Take the Search For Love Online

Chinese Take the Search For Love Online

The Jakarta Herald, Dan Martin, February 11, 2010The founder of Internet dating site jiayuan.com, Gong Haiyan, posing beside a poster in her Beijing office of photographs of married couples who met on her site. In her own search for a husband, Gong turned t…

Editorial: Print dying, journalism thrives

Editorial: Print dying, journalism thrives

The Jakarta Herald | Tue, 02/09/2010 9:18 AM | Opinion Print may not be dead but those who still glorify printed materials, including newspapers and books, are preventing the industry and society from taking the necessary steps to prepare society t…

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