Manwin Licensing, the manager of the Playboy sites, and Digital Playground are suing Icann over the introduction of the .xxx suffix.

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Porn sites sue internet regulator

Ryanair’s announcement about the possibility of in-flight pornography may seem radical, but passengers have already been indulging in racy content on their digital devices.

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Noticed: Pornography on Airplanes, Where You Can’t Look Away

UK consumer protections have not kept up with the digital revolution, leaving people at risk of scams, a report by MPs says.

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Consumers ‘left at risk of scams’

The revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa have toppled one dictator at a time from Ben Ali, Mubarak and just recently, Gaddafi in a remarkably tenacious struggle for democracy and freedom. This grassroots movement has captured the attention of the world with today’s rapid-fire news feed and communication networks. How were ordinary citizens in these countries able to unravel the seams of the authoritarian regimes in such a short time? Who is responsible for instigating the chain of events? ‘ Sandstorm: a leaderless revolution in the digital age ’ by Adeel A. Shah and Sheheryar T. Sardar, attempts to deconstruct the story of this unique youth-powered uprising with the help of modern technology.

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Sandstorm: a Leaderless Revolution in the Digital Age

BT and TalkTalk will launch a fresh challenge against the controversial Digital Economy Act.

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Telcos can challenge piracy law

Steven P. Jobs helped usher in the era of personal computers and led a cultural transformation in music and mobile communications for the digital age.

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Steve Jobs of Apple Dies at 56

Google chairman Eric Schmidt says education in Britain is limiting success in the digital media economy.

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Google boss raps education in UK

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, has called them the “gang of four.” They are the four titans of tech: Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. And they are impossible to escape, tapping nearly every consumer’s wallet and holding vast power over huge swaths of the economy. The companies are racing one another to be king of the digital age, and each is lacking something that another one has. Put in the missing pieces, and one company has the potential to be all things to all people — a complete system in which consumers spend most of their time watching videos, reading the news, writing e-mail and making purchases. Read full article > >

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Four titans of tech are racing to be king of digital age

“We are going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud,” said Steven P. Jobs at the opening of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

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Apple Unveils ‘Cloud’ Music and Storage Service

Steve Jobs officially launched Apple’s new free iCloud service on Monday, which will replace its $99 a year MobileMe document-sharing plan. “We are going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud,” Jobs said at Apple’s…

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Steve Jobs Unveils Apple’s iCloud

BT and Talk Talk are to try again in their bid to get the courts to scrutinise the controversial Digital Economy Act.

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New review of Digital Act sought

SAN FRANCISCO — Much like the caller in the Lady Gaga hit song “Telephone,” some visitors to Amazon’s site received a busy signal Monday when they tried to download the digital version of the artist’s latest album, “Born This Way,” which the online retailer was selling for 99 cents on its release date. Spokeswoman Sally Fouts said Amazon experienced a high volume of traffic that caused delays for those downloading the album — echoing a posting on the album’s product page on Amazon.com. Customers who ordered the MP3 version of “Born This Way” on Monday will get it for 99 cents, she said. Read full article > >

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New Lady Gaga album priced at 99 cents leads to download delays at Amazon

Sweden and Singapore come out top in a World Economic Forum study on the digital competitiveness of nations.

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Sweden is most ICT-wired country

Mike Daisey, the brash maestro of the monologue, takes Apple’s leader out to the digital woodshed in latest solo show, now at Woolly Mammoth Theatre.

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Peter Marks reviews ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’

Video courtesy of Asiapress . Also see: North Korea’s Digital Underground by Robert S. Boynton The Atlantic , April 2011 These media insurgents have a two-pronged strategy, integrating Cold War methods (Voice of America-like shortwave broadcasts in; samizdat-like info out) and 21st-century hardware: SD chips, thumb drives, CDs, e-books, miniature recording devices, and cell phones. And as with all intelligence-gathering projects, their most valuable assets are human: a network of reporters in North Korea and China who dispatch a stream of reports, whether about the palace intrigue surrounding the choice of Kim Jong Il’s successor, or the price of flour in Wŏnsan.

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