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New Zealand relies on BGP router protocol to filter the ‘Net

By anthony | Published: March 12, 2010
New Zealand's government-run Internet filtering system is now running, and two ISPs are already using the system. Seven thousand websites are on the list, most dealing with child sexual abuse, bestiality, and other illegal content, as classified by the country's official censors (you too can be a censor for a day ). Such material has been illegal offline in New Zealand for years, so the expansion of the program to the Internet isn't a big surprise. But will it work? The government runs the filter, but ISP participation remains voluntary.
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Biofuel expansion would send cattle into the rain forest

By anthony | Published: February 9, 2010
Biofuel production in the US has met with fairly mixed success, as the cost and fossil fuel use of corn-based ethanol has severely cut into the benefits provided by avoiding the use of fossil fuels. It's been a somewhat different story in Brazil, which has embraced ethanol derived from sugarcane and seen more promising results. The government has set aggressive targets for both ethanol and biodiesel production, but a study that will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science later this week urges caution: unless the goals are met through an integrated agricultural strategy, they'll drive deforestation that will offset most of the benefits. The study looked at the expansion of the two crops that are expected to drive biofuels growth in Brazil: sugarcane for ethanol, and soy beans for biodiesel.
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Founder Institute On Track To Graduate 300 Startups Per Year, Expands To New York

By admin | Published: November 5, 2009
More expansion news from Adeo Ressi’s Founder Institute. The startup incubator is steadily expanding. It recently opened up an outpost in Seattle, and now is expanding to New York. “New York City needs a kick in the pants,” says Ressi. The Winter New York City Semester will be led by Razorfish co-founder Craig Kanarick.
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Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite prices slashed

By melissa | Published: November 4, 2009
Microsoft this week reduced the price of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) as well as Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Office SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Office Communications Online. The software giant also noted that it is adding support for 15 additional countries and regions later this week, bringing the total to 36 countries. The company noted that in just a year, it has already amassed more than 1 million paying users (excluding Live Meeting), so the expansion is just to keep up with the pace of demand.
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Vodafonewatch, issue 2009.08-09 snapshot

By admin | Published: September 24, 2009
GROUP : Vodafone poached Cenk Serdar , Turkcell’s value-added service chief, to drive the roll out of its mobile money-transfer platform internationally , and is said to have appointed an unnamed multinational IT group to support the expansion. [p. 3 .] Speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference, Vittorio Colao , Chief Executive of Vodafone Group, talked up the prospective spin-off benefits of Orange and T-Mobile’s proposed UK merger , but caused a few ripples by saying Vodafone is “re-loo
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