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The new measures now formally require anyone signing agreements to access the internet, fixed-line telephone and mobile devices to provide network service operators with "genuine identification information", known as real-name registration, Xinhua reports.
BBC: China approves tighter rules on internet access
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Spiceworks of Austin, Texas, which runs a social network for information-technology professionals, plans to announce a new testing service this week.
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The Spiceworks service has a social network for IT professionals to ask questions, share information and discuss issues related to their work.
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In line with the recent re-positioning of Twitter as not a social network, but an information and content network, Trammell believes his own experience reflects how others are actually using the service these days.
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The data warehouse environment comprises marketing databases, call systems, customer service, GSM network statistical data, invoicing systems, collections and retrievals and all logistics information.
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Short of geo-locking the service to stay inside America, information based start-ups (which means pretty much any social network) need to be very aware of what they do with personal data.
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Under the new rules, network service providers will also be required to "instantly stop the transmission of illegal information once it is spotted" by deleting the posts and saving the records "before reporting to supervisory authorities".
BBC: China approves tighter rules on internet access
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Pishevar thinks that now that Gmail has a social-network service like Buzz built in, which adds social, real-time and location-based information to the mix, the service becomes an interesting proposition to gamers and developers.
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