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| Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy: |
Eric Schmidt: The Great Firewall of China will fall
— Technology and information penetration in China will eventually force the Great Firewall of China to crumble and even lead to the political opening of the Chinese system, according to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt.
Jul 10, 2012, 1:15 AM–
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| Rebecca MacKinnon / Foreign Policy: |
The War for India's Internet
— Why is the world's biggest democracy cracking down on Facebook and Google? — “65 years since your independence,” a new battle for freedom is under way in India — according to a YouTube video uploaded by an Indian member of Anonymous, the global “hacktivist” movement.
Jun 9, 2012, 2:20 PM–
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| Rebecca Mackinnon / Foreign Policy: |
The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police
— Activists are fighting to rein them in. — In 2005, Peter Mahnke, a resident of the English town of St. Margaret's, Middlesex, set up a community website. For the past seven years, he and a handful of local volunteers have been publishing regular updates …
May 17, 2012, 1:55 AM–
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| Christina Larson / Foreign Policy: |
Red, Delicious, and Rotten
— How Apple conquered China and learned to think like the Communist Party. — A friend in Beijing recently told me a story about the time a China Telecom technician came over to install the Internet connection for her Apple laptop.
Aug 2, 2011, 12:35 AM–
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| Joshua E. Keating / Foreign Policy: |
Can Governments Really ‘Block’ Twitter?
— Not really. The domain name is inaccessible, but it's not that hard to get around. — This week, Egypt became the latest Middle Eastern country to see massive anti-government street demonstrations. As in Tunisia earlier this month and Iran last year …
Jan 27, 2011, 2:10 PM–
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| Ethan Zuckerman / Foreign Policy: |
The First Twitter Revolution?
— Not so fast. The Internet can take some credit for toppling Tunisia's government, but not all of it. — One way to understand the significance of social media in Tunisia is to examine the government's attempts to control and silence it.
Jan 15, 2011, 2:05 PM–
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| Vivek Wadhwa / Foreign Policy: |
Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
— Watch out, Silicon Valley: China and India aren't just graduating bad engineers and stealing intellectual property anymore. They're fostering innovations that will shake the world. — Earlier this month …
Dec 29, 2010, 10:05 AM–
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| Christina Larson / Foreign Policy: |
State Department Innovator Goes to Google
— Jared Cohen, a high-profile advocate of the State Department's forays into “21st-century statecraft,” is leaving Foggy Bottom for New York. In an exclusive interview with FP, he talks about his time at State and his new project: building a “think/do tank” called Google Ideas.
Sep 7, 2010, 5:05 PM–
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| Foreign Policy: |
The M-Banking Revolution
— Why cell phones will do more for the developing world than laptops ever could. — As recently as two years ago, mobile banking in the developing world was an object of skepticism among financial insiders. While proponents argued that cell phones …
Aug 30, 2010, 7:30 AM–
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| Golnaz Esfandiari / Foreign Policy: |
The Twitter Devolution
— Far from being a tool of revolution in Iran over the last year, the Internet, in many ways, just complicated the picture. — Before one of the major Iranian protests of the past year, a journalist in Germany showed me a list of three prominent Twitter accounts …
Jun 14, 2010, 3:35 AM–
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Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).