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May 16th, 2008

Korean internet site attacked by Chinese hackers

Hyejin Kim · 01:35

The biggest auction site in Korea, “Auction,” was involved in a hacker attack in February and lost the personal information of at least 11 million customers. Recently, the hackers were found to be Chinese. In addition, Koreans are related to this crime. The fact that the personal information is used ... 4 comments · »»

May 14th, 2008

Myanmar: Voices through Tweets

May Hnin Phyu · 12:19

MBS - Myanmar Bloggers Twittering is getting popular among Myanmar community and blogosphere. Although many Myanmarnese are yet to make effective use of available tech gadgets and popular medium such as twitter, facebook and the like due to lack of information and resources, a few overseas bloggers and students are beginning to indulge in various communication mediums to express their voices. The so called micro blogging mechanism, Twitter, has become quite active among Myanmar users in reporting recent cyclone Nargis news.

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May 10th, 2008

Zambia: Parastatal madness and constitutional debate

Brenda Zulu · 15:32

lingua → de

This roundup covers Zambian bloggers who are discussing "the parastatal madness," the debate over the constitution of Zambia, the election crisis in Zimbabwe and the African Forum on ICT Best Practices 2008. 0 comments · »»

May 6th, 2008

Zimbabwe: Using New Technologies to Fight for Democracy

Ndesanjo Macha · 18:02

lingua → pt

In countries such as Zimbabwe where media freedom is extremely restricted, new technologies have become powerful tools for political campaigning, communication, advocacy and mobilisation. Since Robert Mugabe turned the country into a dictatorship, bloggers and civic organisations have resorted to using new tools and applications such as blogs, Flickr, Facebook, SMS, YouTube and mashups to fight for democracy, media freedom and good governance. 6 comments · »»

April 30th, 2008

Qatar: Online Community Comes to the Aid of Workers

Mohamed Nanabhay · 16:32

lingua → ar

Qatar Living members are rallying to help an offline community of 600 workers who have lost all their belongings after a devastating fire broke out in their labour camp, writes Mohamed Nanabhay, from Doha, Qatar. 0 comments · »»

April 22nd, 2008

Dominican Republic test drives new metro system in Santo Domingo

Juliana Rincón Parra · 17:59

lingua → mk · sq · pt · es · zht · zhs

People scream, yell and cheer as they see it pass: in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, the newest celebrity is the Metro transportation system. The city is buzzing at the new metro system which starting last Saturday began operating tentatively for testing to bring visitors to and from the ... 1 comment · »»

April 15th, 2008

Israel: Teenage Girls Usage of Mobile Phones for Dating

Gilad Lotan · 13:42

lingua → fr · mk · pt · sq · bn · mg · de · zht · zhs

Playing with fire? That is what some Palestinian teenage girls do when they accept mobile phones from boyfriends, and have to hide them away from their parents and families, according to a new study, which Gilad Lotan writes about today. 4 comments · »»

April 12th, 2008

Brazil: Bloggers united against Wordpress ban

Paula Góes · 16:43

lingua → pt · es

The Brazilian blogosphere has not quite yet recovered from its last fright and there is already another threat on the way: a blanket ban on blogs hosted on Wordpress.com after a judicial court passed an order to close down a specific blog. Some bloggers are already campaigning just in case this comes true, while others stress that above all Brazil needs proper legislation (and knowledgeable legislators) to deal with the Internet and the new technologies issues. 10 comments · »»

Links

May 17th, 2008

GT!Blog explores 30 years of history to answer the question: Why didn't Japan create the iPod?

May 16th, 2008

Online activism using e-cards in Zimbabwe: “Sokwanele will be releasing regular e-card designs in the days leading up to the run-off election, now scheduled for June 27. We’d like to ask everyone around the world to join us and use them to help all Zimbabweans stay fully engaged with their hope and confidence for the future…”

May 14th, 2008

Yomi writes about the African Mobile Marketing & Advertising Summit in Lagos, Nigeria: “The African Mobile Marketing & Advertising Summit is the foremost event of the year dedicated to communication and loyalty on the mobile in the emerging markets. With the huge growth of mobile communications in Africa, this event will be bringing together advertisers, communication agencies, content developers, and mobile service providers.”

May 13th, 2008

Did someone hack the website of Zimbabwe's Herald newspaper?: “The Herald newspaper's website has been down since it was hacked over the weekend. Currently the website will re-direct you to the Sunday Mail website another arm of the government's propaganda machine. The state run Herald's website had all it's links replaced with the words ‘Gukurahundi' in reference to the government's clampdown on the people of Matebeleland in the 1980s when a lot of civilians were killed by the Korean trained soldiers.”

Ntwiga interviews Simon Mwacharo, a Kenyan entrepreneur: “Simon owns and runs CraftSkills, a small business based in Nairobi, Kenya that focuses on designing and building self-sustaining renewable energy projects in places not accessible to the electric grid. Craftskills had to date undertaken challenging projects in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Cameroon and Rwanda among other places.”

Blogger smashmedia comments [ja] on a CNET article [ja] explaining that mobile carrier DoCoMo is planning to change the ordering of certain “i-menu” items on mobile phones to reflect the size of monetary bids from companies, rather than reflect preferences of users.

Blogging from Puerto Rico, Dondequiera reports that the results from an e-waste recycling drive have been encouraging: “105,629 pounds (52.8 tons) of electronic waste was collected, or as we say in the industry a lot of reasons to go out and buy new computers.”

May 12th, 2008

Belgrade 2.0 writes on the Serbian main character of a video game: “killer, thug, wifebeater, childhater, beerdrinker weapons and trafficking expert and drugdealer.”