Digital downloads tax EC/US relations
News Each (EU country) has obligated itself in international treaties not to impose measures that discriminate against nationals of the other signatories," Dam said in the statement. In a statement released by the Treasury Department, Deputy Treasury...
[February 11, 2002, 15:20]
US asks China to drop filtered software
News It expressed concern that the Green Dam Youth Escort software required to be installed on all PCs by July 1 violates World Trade Organization rules. Mandating technically-flawed Green Dam software and denying manufacturers and consumers freedom to...
[June 25, 2009, 9:59]
China web clampdown ahead of anniversary
News In a separate statement on 18 September, RWB said it was "very worried" about reports of a more powerful version of the Green Dam censorship software, called Landun (Blue Shield or Dam), which internet service providers in Guangdong province had...
[October 1, 2009, 16:18]
Intel picks up telecom pace
News It's a bit like water rising behind a dam. You can't generalise because it's so different metro by metro and country by country. That's bigger than the revenues of most high-technology companies, but it's only about 10 percent of total revenue...
[May 26, 2002, 21:38]
Report: China wants censorship software on PCs
News The software, called Green Dam-Youth Escort, would block access to banned websites by connecting to a regularly updated database of banned sites and block access to those addresses, according to the report.
[June 8, 2009, 9:16]
Experts: Chinese censorware carries botnet risk
News Programming errors in the Green Dam Youth Escort software, which the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Tuesday must be pre-installed on all new computers in the country, are at the root of the flaws, according to...
[June 12, 2009, 14:56]
Green Dam exploit in the wild
News The Chinese government has ordered Green Dam censorware, billed as a pornography filter, to come preinstalled on all PCs sold in the country from 1 July. The buffer overflow flaw exists in the latest, patched version of Green Dam, 3.17, according...
[June 25, 2009, 17:09]
What the future holds for mobile applications
News The dam has truly broken with mobile applications; for years, most consumers seemed indifferent to third-party applications, but now they are viewed as an essential part of any smartphone, just like they are on a PC or Mac.
[April 6, 2009, 14:09]
