Nokia Publishes Policy on Conflict Minerals
"Conflict minerals," those mined to support groups conducting armed conflict or engaging in human rights abuses, have been an issue since long before we first wrote about it in July of 2010. The mineral equivalent of blood diamonds, they include tantal...
[Audio Download] Lomax Folk Recordings Go Digital
Anyone with an abiding interest in American music will have heard of Alan Lomax. His travels around the U.S. and through other countries recording "folk music" was almost single-handedly responsible for how we think about Americana and world music both...
Ethiopia Sentences U.S. Blogger to Life in Prison
The Federal High Court in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa sentenced expatriate journalist and blogger Elias Kifle to life in prison yesterday. Kifle is the editor of the Washington D.C.-based blog, Ethiopian Review. He was sentenced in absentia an...
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, January 21, 2012
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Al-Shabaab Tweets Terror
Since the Kenyan army has gone into Somalia in October (during my trip to Kenya), the main Islamist group Al-Shabaab has used Twitter in its propaganda war against the Kenyan government.
It's latest tweets, posted yesterday on @hsmpress, include photo...
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, January 14, 2012
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Google Accused of Fraud Against African Competitor [Updated: Google Statement]
Mocality, a Kenya-based crowd-sourced web and mobile business listings company, has accused Google of fraudulently stealing its customers. In a blog post today, Mocality's CEO Stefan Magdalinski maintained that Google has targeted its database, the cor...
Berlin Theatre Stages 1st Live Facebook Production
On Monday, Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin staged the first production of a play live on Facebook. The play was a stage adaptation of the novel "Effi Briest" by Theodor Fontaine.
According to Reuters, the online production, Effi Briest 2.0, "used statu...
Another Volley in the Israel-Saudi Hacker Spat
The latest strike in the little cyber war between Israel and the Saudi hacker group xp-group, led by 0xOmar, has taken the form of an Israeli hack of Saudi credit cards, according to Ynet.
An Israel hackers told Ynet, "If the leaks continue, we will c...
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, January 7, 2012
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Saudi Hacker Threatens to Release 1 Million Israeli Credit Card Numbers
After releasing 15,000 credit card numbers hacked from an Israeli website on Tuesday, the Saudi hacker known as 0xOmar has released 11,000 more today. He has threatened to release a further one million.
The hacker broke into a popular Israeli sports ...
Mideast Tunes 2.0: A Mixing Board for the Real Music of the Middle East
The ability to create expressive, gorgeous, geographically-agnostic gateways to the human experience is one of the true boons of the social Web. If you're still laboring under the misapprehension that the Middle East is mostly donkeys and dahabiyas, Mi...
