China To Clamp Down On Online Gaming
China said it would issue stricter regulations on online gaming in an effort to clamp down on the undesirable aspects of the industry." In the next five years, China’s online gaming industry will reach a turning point where ‘green’ games will be appreciated and encouraged," Kou Xiaowei, deputy director of the audio-visual and Internet publication department of the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) said according to China Daily.
China’s Internet Users Pass 200 Million
China’s Internet Users Pass 200 Million News out of China claims the nation’s base of Internet users reached 210 million by the end of 2007, a gain of over 25 percent from 2006.
Remember Hakia and Its Social Network?
Hakia, a semantic search engine, launched a social network of sorts back in October. The purpose of the network was to allow users to connect with others who typed in the same query. While I’ve always wondered why you’d want to do that unless a search engine’s results were lacking, I figured it was about time to see how that idea was going after almost three months. Pluses:
Security Issues Discovered at TSA Site
In what should be a warning to travelers and just about everyone on the Internet, a web site built for the TSA has been found to have significant security issues, endangering travelers, as well as the reputat
Two Sides of the Internet
The Internet can always be amusing, or interesting or just plain frustrating. It really just depends on what side of the fence you are, on any given subjects.
Intute Expanding Into Academic Google Alternative
The Intute web service in the United Kingdom will receive an infusion of thousands of more documents at the end of the month as they construct a “more discriminating” search engine.
Fans Take To Web To Investigate Romo Curse
Let me just start by saying the Cowboys lost because the Giants played better – and Tony Romo threw a really ill-timed interception. That’s it. Occam’s Razor and all that, but no doubt the superstitious Cowboy fans will blame it all on Jessica Simpson. Yahoo, Google, and Nielsen pretty much all confirm that.
Macworld Too Much For Twitter
Oh, dear. It’s done it now. Twitter was already known for experiencing an embarrassing amount of downtime, but the microblogging service crashed during the Macworld keynote, and users are not happy.
The Web Fails To Bring Us The Real Britney
Not that this matters for much of anything at all, but does anybody else find it strange that there are all these reports that Britney Spears is as immodest as a 2 year-old streaker but no pics make it onto the Internet?
Patrons Visit Porn Sites On Dallas Library Computers
City officials in Dallas said they will examine ways to restrict access to pornographic Web sites on public library computers in response to a newspaper study that found the viewing of inappropriate material to occur frequently.