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North Korea's 3G network won't be censored for foreigners | The Verge - 1 views

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north korea 3G

shared by manca_ on 05 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • long maintained tight control over the flow of information within its borders
  • foreigners
  • unfettered mobile access to the web
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  • thanks to new policies implemented by supreme leader Kim Jong Un
  • that required foreigners to hand over their devices to authorities.
  • country has finally begun opening its doors to the outside world,
  • some 3G services, including text messaging, video calls, and subscriptions to state-run newspapers, but their mobile internet will remain tightly filtered, since North Koreans are still "governed by a separate set of telecommunication rules,"
  • two parallel internets — one for foreigners, one for citizens
  • visitors
  • about $300 for the cheapest 2GB data package.
Jan Sekavčnik

Twitter in Pyongyang: how North Korea got the mobile internet | Technology | guardian.c... - 1 views

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northkorea twitter internet

shared by Jan Sekavčnik on 02 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • the secretive country begins allowing tourists to use the mobile internet
  • it was believed to be the first tweet sent from a mobile phone using the country's new 3G mobile data service.
  • photographer David Guttenfelder uploaded an image to Instagram of a tour guide at a mountain temple, geotagged to Pyongyang.
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  • In 2009, I did not offer up my iPhone as we went through customs
  • We'd leave our mobile phones at the airport but use locally purchased phones with SIM cards
  • broadband internet that may be installed on request at our hotel, which is for international visitors.
  • But they cannot surf the "international" internet
  • sim cards are €50,
  • calls to Switzerland are an inexplicably cheap €0.38 a minute
  • Our North Korean colleagues watched with surprise as we showed them we could surf the internet from our phones.
  • Not all North Koreans have local mobile phones
  • The world wide web remains strictly off limits for most North Koreans
  • 3G mobile internet would be available within a week only for foreigners.
  • North Korean universities have their own fairly sophisticated Intranet system
  • Students say they can email one another, but they can't send emails outside the country.
  • Kim Jong Un has pushed science and technology as major policy directives, and we're starting to see more laptops in North Korean offices
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Gabrijela Vrbnjak

Apple and Samsung smartphone patent row set for new jury trial | Technology | guardian.... - 0 views

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apple samsung smartphone patent jurytrial

shared by Gabrijela Vrbnjak on 04 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • battle between Apple and Samsung over smartphone patents
  • is not quite over yet.
  • the jury decided that some Samsung products had copied the appearance of Apple's iPhone 3GS
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  • Samsung used to be Apple's biggest supplier for phone parts, and Apple its largest customer. But in 2010, Steve Jobs, then Apple's chief, vowed to go to "thermonuclear war" over what he saw as copying of iPhone features by Android phones.
  • Samsung meanwhile became the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, and the second most profitable behind Apple. Together, the two companies produce around half of all the smartphones shipped worldwide.
  • Samsung has mounted a series of complaints against the jury decision
  • Apple meanwhile is seeking to have the damages increased.
Nuša Gregoršanec

BBC News - Mobile internet use nearing 50% - 0 views

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internet usage

shared by Nuša Gregoršanec on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Mobile internet use
  • Mobile internet use nearing 50%
  • Some 45% of people surveyed said they made use of the net while out and about, compared with 31% in 2010.
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  • Domestic internet use also rose. According to the ONS, 77% of households now have access to a net connection.
  • Older users, who the government is particularly keen to get connected, appeared to have been relatively untouched by the phenomenon.
  • While 71% of 16 to 24-year-old who went online said they used mobile broadband, just 8% of internet users aged over 65 made use of the newer technology.
  • The ONS survey also found a dramatic rise in the use of wifi hotspots - a seven-fold increase since 2011 - suggesting that the rise of 3G has done little to slow demand for free and paid-for wireless access.
  • All findings were based on a monthly survey of 1,800 randomly selected adults from across the UK.
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