Full Coverage: Internet

30.01.2006 A websiteproject launched today aims to preserve the endangered language and culture of one of the world's most marginalised and maligned populations, the Romani.

27.01.2006 Internet dissident Nguyen Khac Toan has been released after spending four years in prison for emailing details of farmers' protests about official corruption and land confiscation to overseas Vietnamese groups.
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27.01.2006 The Media Development Center published part of the results of the research “Technical Conditions and Potentials of the Broadcasting Activity in Macedonia”. The research was conducted by the research agency SMMRI (Strategic Marketing and Media Research Institute) and was financed by FOSIM together with OSCE.

27.01.2006 In defiance of its famous company motto – Don’t Be Evil - Google has joined Microsoft and Yahoo and consented to the use of servers based in China, a move that grants Beijing a free hand to censor Chinese human rights groups and international free expression groups.

26.01.2006 A United Nations agency that protects intellectual property handled nearly 20 per cent more cybersquatting disputes – the abusive registration of trademarks as Internet domain names – in 2005 than the previous year, as celebrities, corporate moguls and others turned to its services in ever-greater numbers.

24.01.2006 From the expanding reach of broadband to city-wide Wi-Fi networks and the use of internet telephones, trends are developing in Southern and Central Africa and beginning to spread across the continent, says a new report from the London-based Internet company Balancing Act.

20.01.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 20 (OneWorld) - Two-thirds of Americans now have Internet access at home, but more than 75 percent of them are worried that the days of free and diverse Web services may be over, according to a survey commissioned by the Consumers Union, Free Press, and Consumer Federation of America.

13.01.2006 Madurai, Jan 12: A Tamil internet browser that would help rural people understand the web pages has been developed by a Dindigul-based youth R Duraipandiyan.

12.01.2006 The number of Internet users surpassed one billion in 2005 — up from only 45 million in 1995 and 420 million in 2000, with India accounting for 50.6 million. While the U.S. continues to lead with nearly 200 million Internet users at the end of 2005, China and India are now in second and fourth place among Internet users.

11.01.2006 The “Vinozito” Association of Farmers from Kicevo started offering a montly internet prepaid card (200 and 400 Denars value) to go with every canister with cheese sold by its members.

09.01.2006 Macedonia needs a strategy if it wants to escape the bottom rankings in the world in terms of internet use, warn the experts. According to recent surveys, full 70% of the population have never used internet services, while mere 6% go online on daily basis.

05.01.2006 Singapore's National Library through its portal and its digital library has extended access to its more than 500,000 e-books to book lovers all over the world.

04.01.2006 The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Textile Management is organising a national conference on "Digital Libraries: from Technology to Culture" on January 7, 2006.