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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Nitendo has launched a service called WiiWare which allows for downloading games directly to the Wii console from the Wii Shop Channel. Currently, six games are available for download as part of WiiWare which are Final My Life as a King, LostWinds, Defend your Castle, Pop, Blackjack and TV Show King. Users can download games [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008

Web 2.0 has changed the way we use the Internet and the most important aspect of this change has been participation of people in building the services that we use on the Internet. Today, an Internet user plays an important role in building the content on the Internet as well powering certain other web services [...]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008

ZDNet is reporting that Twitter has been banned in Dubai following the arrest and subsequent release of the UC Berkeley student who sent a message “Arrested” to his friends using Twitter and got help from his friends and the U.S. embassy. People accessing Twitter from Dubai are getting a message that the site has been [...]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

There can be situations when you do not have Internet connectivity and are getting bored with almost nothing to do. Wait, you can still locate your Facebook friends using your laptop without Internet connectivity; all thanks to a new application named Peersonalizer. With this application along with a downloadable software called WiPeer, you can detect [...]
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

eDoors has launched a list of top 100 websites which are blocked in various countries across the globe and are accessed using anti-jamming and anti-censorship softwares. Below is the screenshot showing the top 10 websites. There are few interesting points which come out of this report: Google, a search engine, has the number 1 position. [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008

Recently Internet addiction was described as a disease and in another case Sonoma County rejected Sonic.net’s offer of rolling out city-wide Wi-Fi on health related concerns. Now a new injury has been discovered amongst Nitendo Wii players named Wiitis which has been documented and reported in an article titled Magnetic Resonance Imaging of acute Wiitis [...]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
In a news reported by The Hindu, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has said that it was a mistake to ignore the Internet. The Prime Minister said, In the last election, we certainly lost the Internet war, the cyber war. It was a very, very serious mistake on our part. It was painful … [...]