Chinese Government orders Microblogs to enforce Real name registration

Chinese government has ordered micro blogging websites to enforce real name registrations. The government has given 3 months time to accomplish this task. This move was expected as Chinese officials warned several months ago that a strict social media policy was coming. Furthermore, since China has already banned Twitter and Facebook, it has to deal only with domestic companies and that means that the government can go to any extent to make sure that the new social media policy is followed.

China based Weibo.com, which run by Beijing based Sina Corp, is a micro blogging site similar in functionality to Twitter and has more than 250 million users worldwide. Since this policy applies to all the China based micro blogging websites, the foreign users of Weibo.com will also be affected by this policy.

Is RIM going to change its leadership?

According to some reliable sources, due to the bad sales, RIM may change its Chief Executive officers Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. RIM has faced huge losses in the past months. RIM’s Blackberry, which was once a fan favorite, has now lost its position as it is facing a very tough competition from the iPhone and the Android based handsets.

And to add more to the miseries of RIM, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 based handsets have reported sales more than Blackberry and it is expected that it may continue to do so in the near future as Microsoft has collaborated with Nokia and their product by the name of Lumia 800 has already hit the smartphone market.

Research In Motion’s Blackberry became an instantaneous hit when it was first launched. It continued to retain its position as a fan favorite for a long time but after the arrival of Android and the iPhone, it lost its position as well as reputation. Plus RIM was under trouble a few months back when it declined to provide the access to the Blackberry Messenger service to the governments of many countries.

Twitter acquires security firm Whisper Systems

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Happy 40th birthday – Intel 4004, the first CPU.

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14 Nov, 2011 – Google India to have this Doodle

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‘Anonymous’ threatens Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel

A new YouTube video by hacker group Anonymous warns Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel that if the cartel doesn’t free a kidnapped member of the group, the hackers will expose the Zetas’ allies in the local police and news media to the world. In the video, Anonymous says it is “tired of the criminal group the Zetas, which is dedicated to kidnapping, stealing and extortion,” and that it will fight back with information instead of weapons.

Watch the Zetas threat video:
The threat video

In its early days, Anonymous had one goal, and that was entertainment. Their oft-quoted mission statement: “We are doing it for the lulz.” (Lulz being lingo for laughs.)

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