Internet sites in Russia should be censored to combat extremist material, a senior legal official says, the business daily Kommersant reported Friday, June 22.
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June 22, 2007The world’s Bill Gates wants to fly into outer space.
Why?
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April 12, 2007A Russian teacher accused of pirating Microsoft software faces a new legal battle after a court on Tuesday overturned a ruling throwing out the case, the Reuters news agency reports.
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March 27, 2007
Australian authorities are investigating a possible Russian connection to an alleged scam that promises people high-tech products for Christmas at prices that are hard to believe, Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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December 20, 2006
One of the many differences between human beings and computers is that computers do not have blind spots, as world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik did in game two of his match against the Deep Fritz software on Monday.
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November 28, 2006Russian companies have the worst corporate Web sites in Europe and make the least amount of information available to investors, analysts and other people seeking data to make investment decisions, according to a survey of 16 countries released Thursday.
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November 23, 2006Microsoft chief Bill Gates has cautioned Russia against competing with India in the software business stating that it might lose out due to high production costs. Gates was in Moscow on Tuesday and Wednesday, meeting with the country’s software developers and government officials.
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November 9, 2006Nintendo plans to launch its videogame business in Russia later this year in a growth market, japanese daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun said on Sunday.
With the U.S., European and Japanese game markets maturing, the Japanese video gamemaker known, for game characters such as Mario and Pokemon, needs fresh markets with strong growth potential.
Nintendo’s European unit has already appointed a local agency to start selling its game hardware and software in November, the newspaper said.
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November 3, 2006The United States and Russia host the bulk of the world’s child abuse Web sites, according to a British-based Internet monitoring group which identifies the UK as one of the countries with the best enforcement records, Reuters news agency reports.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) reported on Tuesday that just over half (51 percent) of child abuse content was traced back to the United States and 20 percent to Russia.
This compared with just 0.2 percent of potentially illegal content that appears to be hosted in Britain, down from 18 percent in 1997.
“The UK has benefited from a concerted effort from the online industry which has sought to take down these Web sites and from the authorities which have demonstrated a determination to tackle the problem,†said the IWF’s Peter Robbins.
“In Britain, hosts are told about content and told to take it down. Additionally the government has done its part in bringing in tough legislation,†the group’s chief executive told Reuters.
New laws enacted in 2003 introduced the application of reverse burden of proof —- people have to prove they are innocent if they have downloaded obscene material.
The British authorities were also very active in arresting and prosecuting individuals as part of Operation Ore, an international police operation targeting viewers of child abuse images.
That the United States has such a high proportion of abuse Web sites is partly attributed to the fact the country has a large number of Internet users, servers and ISPs.
The enforcement approach also differs from the British model. In the United States law enforcement officials prefer to track down the people behind the Web sites by leaving them live for a period. In contrast, British police shut down the Web sites first and then track down the perpetrators using computer records.
Robbins said the problem in Russia was a lack of any centralised authority to take ownership of the problem. He said there was no hotline that people could use to report Web sites.
In total, more than 31,000 sites with abusive material have been removed since 1996 when the IWF was set up, but challenges remain.
The growth of pay-per-view sites was worrying because they tend to be more technologically sophisticated and keep moving around the world to avoid being shut down. They also often host the most extreme images.
“Some of these Web sites have been bragging about how they have been around since 1995/1996. We have got to track them down and then shut them down,†Robbins said.
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