India slams Facebook, Google
India's top telecommunications official, Kapil Sibal, said yesterday that Internet giants such as Facebook and Google have ignored his demands to screen derogatory material from their sites, so the government would have to act on its own, writes AP.
The dispute highlights India's continuing difficulty in balancing the Internet culture of freewheeling discourse with its home-grown religious and political sensitivities.
Government officials are upset about Web pages that are insulting to prime minister Manmohan Singh, ruling Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi and major religious figures.
RIM barred from using BBX name
A court in the US has barred Research In Motion (RIM) from using the BBX name at the company's Asian DevCon conference this week in Singapore, after a software company, Basis International, filed for a temporary restraining order in a trademark dispute, says PC World.
The BBX mark is identical to the mark which RIM is allegedly using to present its BBX product, observed the US District Court for the District of New Mexico yesterday.
Although Basis and RIM are not direct competitors, their respective BBX products are highly related and target the same class of consumers, consisting of business application software developers, it added.
Windows Store undercuts rivals
In a bid to lure developers to its upcoming application store for Windows, Microsoft revealed a new pricing scheme designed to undercut rivals' marketplaces, writes Cnet.
Microsoft will take 30% of application sales revenue from programs sold in the Windows Store, an app marketplace that will be built into Windows 8, similar to what rivals such as Apple take from app sales in their stores. But Microsoft will take only 20% once an app makes more than $25 000.
“We're going to give you a bigger bite of the apple,” said Antoine Leblond, a corporate VP of Windows Web Services.
.xxx domain registrations begin
Registrars have begun accepting registrations for the .xxx top level domain, writes V3.co.uk.
Registrar ICM said it opened the domains at 1600 GMT, allowing site owners and businesses to lay claim to the new addresses. The domains can be claimed through partnering registrars or through the buy.xxx portal.
Previously, registration had been limited to a set “sunrise period” in which companies were allowed to claim addresses related to owned trademarks.
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