[PN] A Year in the Like

Blame the ISP – Russia

The cyber crime department of Russia’s Interior Ministry says it intends to get tough on the country’s ISPs when their customers share copyrighted or otherwise illegal material. Authorities say they are currently carrying out nationwide checks on ISPs’ local networks and could bring prosecutions as early as next month.

http://torrentfreak....sharing-120410/

Chrome OS 19

Google has officially revealed their intentions to go after Windows and OS X. Chrome OS 19 has arrived for Samsung Series 5 and Acer AC700 Chromebooks running the developer channel. The new Aura window manager has landed, bringing with it a number of features that you'd expect from a traditional OS. For starters, there’s the Shelf along the bottom of the screen. It’s set to hide when you’ve got a browser window maximized by default, but you can choose to have it always on top or auto-hide, too, just like the Windows taskbar or OS X dock

http://googlechromer...hromebooks.html

Iran national Intranet

the system consists of an Intranet designed ultimately to replace the international Internet and to discriminate between ordinary citizens and the 'elite' (banks, ministries and big companies), which will continue to have access to the international Internet. Iranian government is also creating its own custom electronic mail service and a national search engine called Ya Haq.

http://arstechnica.c...alternative.ars

3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up

The publishers’ complaint takes issue with the way the upstart produces its open-education textbooks, which Boundless bills as free substitutes for expensive printed material. To gain access to the digital alternatives, students select the traditional books assigned in their classes, and Boundless pulls content from an array of open-education sources to knit together a text that the company claims is as good as the designated book. The company calls this mapping of printed book to open material “alignmentâ€â€”a tactic the complaint said creates a finished product that violates the publishers’ copyrights.

http://chronicle.com...xtbook-start-up

A Year in the Like

Microsoft has built a little Facebook tool for you to enjoy. Just login with your Facebook account, and Microsoft will put together a beautiful timeline of your Facebook activity during the last year.

Try this without fail . It's Awesome .

http://ayearinthelike.com/

India – 10.2% Internet Penetration

According to the Internet World Stats, India has achieved a 10.2% internet penetration at 12.1 crore users as of December 2011. Of this 37% of the users access Facebook.

"About 3.8% of Indian population access Facebook at 4.5 crore," the Internet World Stat said in a report.

The report mentions that 44.8% of internet users are from Asia followed by 22.1% from India, 12% from North America, 10.4% from Latin America and 6.2% from Africa.

In Asia, India had the second largest users followed by China which had a total penetration of 38%. Japan was the third largest at a penetration level of 80%.

India has the largest number of Facebook users in Asia followed by Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand at 4.5 crore, 4.3 crore, 2.7 crore and 1.4 crore users respectively.

Internet World Stats has also calculated that total penetration in Asia is less than the world average. While the world average is 32.7%, penetration in Asia is 26.2% and rest of the world average is 41%.

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