Tag: BLOCKED

While you can't see the Great Firewall of China from space, its reach is global -- preventing those on the inside from accessing sites on the outside. Recently, another popular Web service was added to the block list: SugarSync. As the company's Laura Yecies points out in a blog post, SugarSync's aim "is to make information access fast, easy and ubiquitous." That, of course, is a philosophy ...

There's a minor blogstorm brewing around the relationship between Internet calling powerhouse Skype and mobile chat service Fring. The two companies have been attacking each other on their blogs today over missing Skype functionality in Fring. They both agree that Fring's iPhone 4 two-way video calling feature, which used Skype, no longer works. Here's where it gets messy, though. Fring says ...

Wednesday was a big day for Google in China. It's the deadline for a renewal of the search giant's Internet Content Provider license, the license that allows Google to keep operating in China. On Monday, Google explained in a blog post that it would stop redirecting traffic from Google.cn to its Hong Kong site, Google.hk, because China was displeased with the redirect and unlikely to approve ...

When I last wrote about the Pirate Bay's new feature that enabled sharing torrents through Facebook, Facebook hadn't yet responded or acted to stop the Pirate Bay from using the social network as a link repository. Now they have. Facebook is blocking incoming links from The Pirate Bay, according to TorrentFreak. Not only can you no longer use the "Share on Facebook" buttons located on Pirate Bay ...