To circumvent the blocking of the Web, 56K modems

When technology does not work anymore, there is still the old: the face of almost complete blockage of the Web in Egypt, in place since the evening of Thursday, January 27, the provider of Internet access French NDF has established a connection relief to low-speed flights of Egyptians who have a 28K or 56K modem.

"Because it is indeed a blatant attack by one State against the Internet, FDN has decided to open a small window on the network by providing an account that wishes to access RTC [telephone network Dial], "said ISP, known for its commitment to net neutrality or freedom of expression. Customers can use the Egyptian line +33 1 72 89 01 50 and connect with the username and password "foo" to access a backup connection at low rates.

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Samsung has put two million Galaxy Tab in three months

The technology development company Samsung has succeeded in the market more than two million of its new Samsung Galaxy Tab, the tablet made by the company late last year. While this figure is not at all comparable to the seven million sold iPads Apple, the company Steve Jobs, in his first months on sale without a doubt is a good sales volume, which indicates that perhaps Samsung is one company that managed to compete with Apple in the growing market for tablets.

Egypt disappears Internet map

In a move unprecedented in the history of the Internet, the Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak has ordered all ISPs operating in the Arab country to cut their international connections to completely silence the protests that began on 25 January against the Egyptian government and now have their peak with an outpouring of opposition groups in Cairo.

The Egyptian government's decision means in practice 20 years back in the calendar, a world without Internet or mobile, also blocked throughout the country to avoid the sending of SMS among the participants in the marches. The government blackout of the four major operators of Internet-Link Egypt, Vodafone / Raya, Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr-did this last night after leaving inoperable access to Facebook and Twitter, the two social networks used by young Egyptians to coordinate, organize demonstrations and give encouragement to each other.

Playing with the living

InternetActu - We are still far from predicting the physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson (Wikipedia) - which announced in 2007 that "the final step in the domestication of biotechnology will be biotech creating games, designed like computer games for children from kindergarten, but played with real eggs and real seeds instead of images on a screen.

The winner will be the kid who will create the seeds producing the most thorny cactus, or the one whose egg will give birth to the cutest dinosaur "- but slowly approached. If this summer has attracted Foldit (finally) media attention (see our article), other "games of biological research" have emerged since September 2010.

Egypt, another country call centers

Effect of near-total blockage of the Internet introduced by Egypt on the night of Thursday to Friday, several major companies face Friday in significant difficulties in their customer services. Egypt is home to many call centers, unreachable since the cutoff of communications, who put their employees laid off.

In recent years, many companies, particularly in the field of computers and new communication technologies, have in fact relocated or outsourced their call centers in Egypt. From a business perspective, the country has many advantages: a young population and large, speaking both Arabic and English, low wages, and strong technical infrastructure, thanks to the presence in the country of several cables very high speeds.

A cyber attack is a form of protest?

It's a fairly original line of defense: Friday, January 28, following the arrest in Britain and France of five people suspected of involvement in attacks against sites computer PayPal and MasterCard, one sites used by the network Anonymous believes that attack is similar to an event. AnonNews site, including hosting a chat channel and various texts, claims to be an informational site by and for members of the network Anonymous, an informal group of activists coming together occasionally for a cause.