Google TV

In autumn 2010, Sony plans to begin selling TVs, and Blu-ray player based, under the name brand name Sony Internet TV. At the same time, Logitech will start selling its own
set-top box which will be connected to an existing television. Mouse producer is also planning a special range of tools for Google Tv, such as remote control, keybord, Bluetooth interface.
Unfortunately, the TV offer is only limited to U.S., however the website content will available everywhere.

Pakistan blocks the access to Youtube and Facebook

Access to the most popular video sharing website, Youtube, and most commonly known and used social networking site, Facebook, was blocked in Pakistan, because there is un-Islamic, or Islamic-offensive content.
As for Facebook it started with the activity encouraging drawing images of prophet Muhammad, which strictly forbidden in Islamic countries.
Besides, there are also other pages blocked, like part of Wikipedia and some link to BBC news page, especially the section dedicated to South-East Asia.
One of the links blocked is to a BBC News website article about Pakistani soldiers apparently beating Taliban suspects in a video posted on Facebook- as it was written in one of the BBC articles.
First, they started to block only links, however the offensive content continue appearing. It is very offensive for many people in Pakistan and many of the are ready to delete their profile accounts or have already done it.
The conflict has risen, cause Facebook and YouTube are platforms by means of which free expression of opinions and ideas is possible.

"Such malicious and insulting attacks hurt the sentiments of Muslims around the world and cannot be accepted under the garb of freedom of expression".
Undoubtedly, this a thorny issue. Is a website administrator, who is guilty here,the users or a Muslim people who don't have the distant to themselves?

I would like to attach a coment of one Pakistani girl, which may give us some perspective on this problem:

I find these to be ill-advised measures. Blocking websites in countries does not prevent the content from existing in the first place. I think the Pakistani government should move to ban pornography (which is still easily available) before they ban Facebook and YouTube which are obviously on the better side of human development.

Is it the end of facebook?

Recently, a company named Sophos conducted a survey and asked about 1600 users of Facebook about privacy concerns. It came out that a significant amount of users of this social networking site, feels concerned about privacy settings. Two thirds, so almost 60% users of Facebook is considering leaving the portal, 16% claims that they stopped using Facebook because of inappropriate control and care about their personal data. Facebook has been criticised as a consequence of the recent changes introduced, namely the way of accessing the users' data inside and outside this social networking site.
The concerns are mainly focused on this "opt-out" attitude which gives the access to facebook user's personal data from other websites.
The media suggest that Facebook is to announce further changes concerning privacy in a few days, however there is no quarantee that it will calm the users down.
Despite that critical dispute, it is rather slightly probable that the users will start huge exodus from Facebook. Nevertheless, FB will have to consider introducing some easier ways of setting privacy and change the policy of privacy, cause people really dont want to display their private data like telephone numbers, or pictures with family to the whole Internet.