RIM has avoided yet another shut down of its service, this time in India. The country, like Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and the UAE, is demanding RIM give them the ability to monitor all user activities including email, texting, and IMing. RIM has apparently reached the same deal with India that it did with Saudi Arabia more »

There has been some great debates among the Muslim-majority Asian nation about whether or not to ban the access of pornographic materials. The government of Indonesia took the first step to restrict the access of pornographic materials from the web and went as far as making the “transmission of pornographic material on the Web” a criminal offense. Well it goes to show that when people want their porn they will stand up for what they believe is right, in respond with the government’s action, a couple of “web criminals” hacked into the website of the Information Ministry, and added their personal message and thoughts.