
Protests have forced China to clarify whether net-filtering software has to be used on every new PC.
From July, every PC sold in China was supposed to be supplied with the Green Dam Youth Escort software.
The software was created to stop people looking at “offensive” content such as pornographic or violent websites.
But widespread disapproval inside China, legal challenges and overseas criticism have forced the Chinese government to clarify its policy.
“The use of this software is not compulsory,” an official with China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) told the AP news wire.
The state agency that created Green Dam has said it was possible to uninstall the program. But it was unclear whether those that did so would face prosecution.



June 18th, 2009
nrmodh
You say you want value in your mobile computer? You say you want something super cheap? Not one year ago, we visited a very similar subject and found most Netbooks averaging $499. Now Netbooks are available for $299 or less, thanks to incredibly affordable new offerings from Acer–the just-reviewed Aspire One AOD250–and Dell’s Mini 10v. A line has been drawn in the sand, and now we answer the question: what can $300 get me in a new Netbook?
Well, according to
Nokia had announced its first 8 megapixel phone N86 8MP phone at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in February is now available worldwide.
Peter-Frans Pauwels, TomTom’s co-founder and CTO, demonstrated TomTom’s navigation software in combination with a specially designed car kit on the iPhone- during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 8th, 2009.
The new panels support high brightness (5000 lumens or more) as a result of the higher aperture ratios achieved by Epson’s D7 process technology, while Epson’s C2 Fine inorganic alignment layer technology is used to provide higher than ever contrast. These panels provide the means to create versatile 3LCD projectors suited to a wide range of uses and venues, most notably the projection of high-definition moving images on large screens in auditoriums and at events.
