
Internet users in Iran are reporting error messages when trying to access major websites from inside the country Friday.
Gmail, Google Reader and Facebook are just some of the blocked sites, according to The Washington Post.
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Some Iranians are guessing their connectivity woes are being caused by the Iranian government. The country celebrates the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution from mid-February until March every year. The government may be restricting Internet access during this politically charged event to prevent anti-government demonstrations from forming online.
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Challenging Google in web searching sounds like an astonishing idea. Even much more, if the venture doesn’t come from a massive, aggressive and wealthy firm but from an outdated Italian University.
On Monday February 6th, this project, called Volunia, will be unveiled on the internet globally, in a conference in streaming from Padua University (at noon in Italy), not far from Venice. Much much more than an odd event, due to the fact of the title of his writer.
Now 41, Massimo Marchiori, Italian laptop or computer scientist and professor at Padua University, was awarded in … Continue reading

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Planned alterations to Google Inc’s privacy policies that have caught the focus of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its clients have above how data is collected and utilised, the organization stated in a website post on Tuesday
Google, whose offerings include its flagship search engine, Gmail, YouTube and Google+ goods, announced last week that it was unifying 60 of its privacy policies.
When the new policy comes into effect on March 1, data from most Google products will be treated as a single trove of data, which the firm could use for targeted marketing.… Continue reading

The Net proved the only genuine type of free communication throughout the Arab Spring and yet the West has come to take the freedom it confers for granted, Google boss Eric Schmidt said Friday.
In a stout defence of World wide web freedoms at the Globe Financial Forum in Davos, Schmidt also mentioned that rather than be seen as contributing to work losses, the internet was a wonderful opportunity for organizations to develop.
Schmidt told delegates he had just returned from a go to to Libya right after the revolution that toppled Moamer Kadhafi, a trip which had underlined… Continue reading