All the stories tagged with government
Learn about the safety of consumer products online
03/14/2011, The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has recently launched their first publicly-accessible safety complaints database. Accessible at saferproducts.gov, this site will allow users to submit safety complaints about consumer products and view complaints from other users as well. This will [...]
Chinese government wants to monitor phones to ease traffic congestion
03/03/2011, What do you think of the idea of having Big Brother monitor the whereabouts and movement of phones so that they can find a more efficient way of ensuring smooth traffic? That is what China’s government is mulling over, especially [...]
Twitter now blocked in Egypt
01/26/2011, Twitter has just added one more country to the list of countries the micro-blogging service is banned in. As of today, folks in Egypt will not be able to access the service, through Twitter.com or third party apps. This was [...]
U.S. DHS Shuts Down Websites Selling Counterfeits
11/29/2010, The United States Department of Homeland Security had shut down a total of 82 sites on the Internet on Cyber Monday’s post-Thanksgiving online shopping day. Those sites, which include a BitTorrent meta-search engine and e-commerce sites selling illegal materials, such [...]
Kuwait Government Bans The Use Of DSLR Cameras On Streets And In Malls
11/23/2010, There are days when government action just baffles the average Joe. Word is out that three ministries in Kuwait have banned the public use of Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras on the streets and in the malls for anyone [...]
Google Sues The US Government For Only Considering Microsoft Solutions
11/02/2010, Most folks wouldn’t dare to take on the US government, but then again, Google isn’t just anybody. The search giant has sued the US government, specifically the Department of the Interior (DOI), for not seriously considering Google Apps when it [...]
India Extends BlackBerry Deadline To January 31st For RIM
10/12/2010, Despite the UAE being able to sort out its differences with RIM, the BlackBerry maker still has to appease the Indian government which wants its security forces to be able to access certain services, such as RIM’s encrypted corporate email [...]
NSA: U.S. Must Secure the Internet
09/07/2010, According to National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith Alexander, the United States federal government has the overarching duty and responsibility in securing the Internet to safeguard against cyber-criminal activities. Top military officials concurred with Alexander, but the government still [...]
Brazil First in the World to Go Fully Digital for National Census
08/30/2010, Despite having the opening question of its national census be: do you use a hole in the ground or open cesspit for a toilet? Brazil, a country stricken with poverty, is leading the world in moving to smartphones and converting [...]
US Air Force Picks Up 2200 PS3s
11/25/2009, It seems like the US Air Force is a big customer of Sony’s. By now you already know that it purchased 336 PS3s a while back for their supercomputer research. Now news has broken that they’re planning to pick up [...]
Bill would authorize U.S Government to control Internet traffic during emergencies
08/28/2009, A new bill from the U.S Senate aimed at protecting against cyber-threats on critical infrastructure would effectively authorize the President to control the Internet traffic in case of an emergency. Some compared it to the kind of control that allowed [...]
