China Starts eyeing Skype

BEIJING - China began to target the VoIP communications service provider, Skype, to be blocked. By reason of the Internet phone service is illegal.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated it on its website. They said they would work hard to fight 'illegal VoIP communication service'. Even so they did not give details about the action to perform.

Communication experts in China said that if companies like Skype are in a gray area. This statement is at once a warning to the Skype for not growing up in China or against China's state-owned telecommunications operator. Thus was launched by the Associated Press on Friday (12/31/2010).

China, which recently announced a number of Internet users reached 450 million this year, does have a pretty strict censorship of information scrolling on the internet. Skype is considered as one of the most widely used by activists to communicate because of the virtual world is not charging anything.

According to the Chinese government, only two telecommunications providers in China alone has the right to deploy VoIP services, namely China Telecom and China Unicom.

Ministry of ICT industry in China also asked Skype for not too expand in China. With this announcement means that Skype will not have the freedom to grow in China.

Currently mobile Internet users in China reached 15 million people.

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Cyber Crime Main Target 2011: Apple and Social Networking

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CALIFORNIA - All Internet technology that was busy in 2010, including Geolocation services, internet TV, social networking sites, mobile phones with Android OS and Apple, will be the main targets of cyber crime in the year 2011, predictions of an internet security firm.

McAfee said in a prediction list of Internet threats in 2011 that the latest Internet technology in 2010 are vulnerable to cyber crime attacks. This trend will continue until 2011, in which the perpetrators will find new ways to steal personal information from consumers. Similarly, as quoted by InformationWeek on Thursday (12/30/2010).

"We have seen significant development for Internet technologies and social networking site this year, inviting cyber criminals to ruin it," said Vincent Weaver, senior vice-president of McAfee Labs.

Apple products suspected to be the main targets of cyber crime in 2011. Once the hackers are not too much attention to Apple because of their small marketshare. Now everything changed, since Apple has now become one of the largest internet technology companies in the world.

McAfee suspect that Trojans and other malware attacks to Mac, iPhone and iPad will increase next year. The alleged cyber criminals will also attack other mobile devices, such as tablets and mobile phone-based Android OS. These devices are highly vulnerable targets, as many users who do not know about the security system of the gadgets they use.

source : okezone.com

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The Role of Human Computer Will Drag on the Internet

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MOSCOW - The emergence of  artificial intelligence  is claimed will transform  the Internet  industry  and patterns of  social networks within the next 10 years.

This claim comes from a statement from Russian billionaire, Yuri Milner. CEO and owner of internet company Mail.ru Global DST was declared if later on we will not be able to membedakanyang are interacting with us in cyberspace, may be they are computers that can communicate.

"I think within the next 10 years, if you ask something in social networks and get an answer quickly, you could not tell whether the person who answered it is a human being or just computers," Milner said, as quoted by Yahoo News, Wednesday (29 / 12 / 2010).

Vice versa, further Milner, when there is a question arise, Internet users will not be able to guess if the question came from a human or a computer.

"By answering these questions, you are automatically helping to create computer algorithms," said Milner.

Mail.ru is owned by leading Russian figures, Alisher Usmanov and is now in the stage of an IPO in London. Big companies in Russia has now also started to expand to other countries through acquisitions and share purchases. Recently they have saved money by 2.4 percent stake in Facebook. And do not miss DST Global also holds approximately 10 stocks in the social networking.

"Until it's been many changes in our information world. Even the currently available information together with the information summarized above in public history in 2003," said Milner.

Mail.ru reportedly also will purchase shares of game developer Zynga and shopping discount vouchers site Groupon.

source : okezone.com

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Aretha Franklin So in Internet Hoax Victim

LONDON - Legendary singer Aretha Franklin has become the 'latest victim' of the artist's death issue recently circulating on the internet.

However, the issue was denied by the artist himself. Franklin confirmed that he is still alive and healthy. Similarly, as quoted from newKerala, Wednesday (29/12/2010).

The singer with the nickname 'Queen of Soul' is an operation in a hospital in Detroit, Michigan, earlier this month. Some reports mentioned that he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

His health condition was only made direct to the news that he had died.

A spokesman from Aretha Franklin has denied the issue by saying "Aretha's fine,"

Franklin is one of the celebrities who are rumored to be dead, after Charlie Sheen reportedly died due to ice ski accident on Sunday (26). Then singer Aaron Carter is also rumored died last week, the issue has also been denied by him.

source : okezone.com

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