Internet Filtering: New Zealand joins the growing crowd

Last month NZ government has stealthy launched their filtering system. From now on, New Zealand Internet users are in good hands. Sad. Here is what their opposition says: Does New Zealand have internet filtering? Yes. The Department of Internal Affairs ran a trial internet filtering scheme in conjunction with Ihug, Watchdog, Maxnet and TelstraClear from May 2007 to September 2008. The system is now running with...

Another project to be doomed?

Last week, Oracle laid off two more members of Sun’s already-decimated APO (Orca screen reader, a project led by Sun’s Accessibility Program Office.) Open Letter to Oracle here Now it’s more like offense if they close it ...

Oracle kills Project Darkstar; adios to virtual worlds | VentureBeat

Oracle kills Project Darkstar; adios to virtual worlds | VentureBeat. Here you go. Another “useless” thing made by Sun bites the...

Oracle closes Kenai.com “to provide the best project hosting solution”

OK, this is the first one, how many are there yet to come? This action is being undertaken to provide the best project hosting solution for all of our customers into one location. Minimizing the number of current project hosting sites is a start in this direction. The consolidation process is underway and we will post notices about the plans and timeline as they become publicly available. and is it for bad or for...

Firefox mobile updated rc1

Fennec rc1 on n900 Still slow like … Well, slower than...