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Japan's networks buckling under data strain, culprit is exactly what you think

by Chris Ziegler posted Jul 11th 2009 @ 4:09PM

The saturation of high-speed networks is a virtually inevitable side-effect of compatible hardware becoming cheaper and more capable; Japan's been trekking in that direction longer than anyone, and it seems that they're nearing the breaking point. The problem's exacerbated by the fact that truly unlimited usage plans are still available over there -- we bet that doesn't last much longer -- but what's everyone downloading? Porn, of course. All of the local carriers are either clamping down on the heaviest downloaders or are considering doing so; some of the larger content providers say they're signing up over a thousand new users a day, and when you consider that many Japanese are using their phones exclusively for personal internet access, it doesn't take much work to connect the dots. Can't someone please, like, invent more spectrum space?

[Thanks, Will]

Apple's App Store approves first explicit content, Anita Bryant races to Cincinnati

by Thomas Ricker posted Jun 25th 2009 @ 3:22AM

After all the cases of benign apps being rejected on grounds of "objectionable content," the first outright application featuring jiggly bits has made it to the App Store. How could this happen? Easy, Apple's shift in policy is made possible by the parental controls included in the iPhone OS 3.0 -- you know, so you can parent instead of Apple. Hopefully this brings an end to arbitrary App Store rejections and begins a new era of fire and brimstone threats of eternal damnation.

[Via MacRumors]

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Cambodia bans 3G phones for fear of porn

by Chris Ziegler posted May 26th 2006 @ 12:37PM

Note to self: don't send MMS porn to heads of state or their spouses. Not ever. Unfortunately for tech-savvy Cambodians, someone already ruined their fun when Prime Minister Hun Sen's wife and her friends complained that their phones were suddenly rife with the XXX stuff. Never one to put technology before morality, the Southeast Asian nation swiftly banned its freshly-launched 3G network, because "We can wait 10 more years until we have managed to improve morality in society," so sez the boss. Yikes! If being forced into 1xRTT and EDGE purgatory for the next 10 years isn't a good reason to overthrow the government, we don't know what is.