Date: 29/03/12 Justin Bieber’s Twitter Prank Leads to Potential Lawsuit
A Texas couple is threatening legal action against Justin Bieber after receiving thousands of phone calls shortly after the pop star tweeted a phone number, TMZ reported. The tweet containing the phone number had the caption “call me now.”
Date: 28/03/12 Web-site dedicated to Khankendi created
Two websites dedicated to Khankendy city, one of the most ancient places in Azerbaijan, which is under Armenian occupation now, have been created. According to information provided by ‘ICTnews’,
Date: 27/03/12 Application of electronic teaching tools in learning English language to be widened
British Council’ and ‘Mədəd Azərbaycan’ signed a contract on cooperation in the education sphere. Under this contract, 200 teachers and 500 students from Baku, Sumgait, Shirvan, Geychay and Mingechevir cities will take part in English language courses, organized by ‘British Council’,
Date: 27/03/12 Facebook purchases IBM patent following Yahoo dispute
Facebook has confirmed it has bought some of IBM's intellectual property rights. The social network would not provide further detail, but Bloomberg has reported that the deal involved 750 patents involving software, networking and other technologies.
Date: 27/03/12 Google ordered to change autocomplete function in Japan
Google has been ordered to disable part of its autocomplete function in Japan after complaints it violates privacy. An unidentified man took the search giant to court over concerns that typing in his name linked him with crimes he was not involved with.
Date: 27/03/12 PayPal closes potential flaw in login pages
PayPal has closed a potentially serious security hole on its site, which cyber criminals could have used to steal passwords belonging to users of the online payment service.Associates at the Heise Security website informed PayPal of the cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability after it was spotted by one of their readers.
Date: 27/03/12 London Overground to offer free Wi-Fi to passengers
The London Overground has signed a contract with BSkyB's Wi-Fi service The Cloud to provide free internet access at its 56 stations in the capital. Passengers will have up to 60 minutes' access to Wi-Fi each day at each station after registering once at any of the London Overground stations.
Date: 19/03/12 Paypal Here offers stores smartphone credit card reader
Paypal has introduced a mobile credit card reader enabling on-the-fly transactions at small firms worldwide. "Paypal Here" consists of a blue triangular reader which plugs into a smartphone's audio jack and an app to control it. The announcement by eBay's online payments unit marks an aggressive move into the mobile
Date: 19/03/12 Hague condemns Tehran for blocking Foreign Office website
Tehran has blocked a UK Foreign Office website in Iran as part of its "ever-tightening stranglehold of censorship", the foreign secretary has said. William Hague said UK for Iranians was launched on March 14 to "reach out" to its citizens but access from the country was blocked on March 17.
Date: 19/03/12 App for leaving your virtual mark at physical places
Imagine standing at the Eiffel Tower and being able to see messages and videos overlaid through your smartphone from all visitors who have come before you. A new app called Wallit combines augmented reality, a virtual view of the real world that can be extended with graphics and other content,
Date: 19/03/12 Number of schools connected to internet hits 1,200 in Azerbaijan
Equipping comprehensive schools with information and communication technologies and increasing the quality of education are among top priorities of the Ministry of Education. ‘The State Program on the provision of comprehensive schools of the Republic of Azerbaijan with ICT’,
Date: 19/03/12 AFFA to present a mobile version of the portal for smartphones
The Azerbaijani Association of Football Federations (AFFA) will present a mobile version of the portal for smartphones operating under iOS iPhone and the BlackBerry OS systems, AFFA told. The work over the applications has been completed, and the mobile version of the portal
Date: 19/03/12 Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan to organize online-ticket sales
The Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA) has completed work on integration of FIFA e-commerce system for the organization of online-ticket sales for football games, AFFA reported. The FIFA system of e-commerce is a global one and used in many countries.
Date: 19/03/12 ‘AzQtel’ expands coverage of ‘WİMAX’ non-sim network
‘AzQtel’ company that provides ‘WİMAX’ technology based non-sim internet services will expand its activity into the regions. The speed and quality of services that ‘AzQtel’ will provide to the regions will depend on power of signal and distance between a base station and a recipient.
Date: 19/03/12 ‘Websense’ filtrates web-sites to protect children from harmful information in Azerbaijan
30 category filtration of web-sites is being currently implemented in Azerbaijan in line with ‘The State Program for the informatization of the educational system in 2008-2012’, adopted by the Internet-Related Problems Council of the Education Ministry of Azerbaijan Republic.
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