Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Harvey Anderson http://pulse2.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:27:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Homeland Security Wants Mozilla To Take Down MafiaaFire Redirector Add-On http://pulse2.com/2011/05/05/homeland-security-wants-mozilla-to-take-down-mafiaafire-redirector-add-on/ http://pulse2.com/2011/05/05/homeland-security-wants-mozilla-to-take-down-mafiaafire-redirector-add-on/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 23:54:32 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=46636 Continue reading →]]>
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent Mozilla a take-down request for the Firefox add-on called MafiaaFire Redirector. MafiaaFire Redirector allows Firefox users to access websites, whose domain names were taken down by the government over copyright issues. Mozilla responded by asking the government why they should remove the add-on. About two weeks have gone by without a response.

Mozilla asked why the add-on is considered unlawful and whether Mozilla is legally obligated to remove the add-on. Mozilla has not received a court order either. “One of the fundamental issues here is under what conditions do intermediaries accede to government requests that have a censorship effect and which may threaten the open internet,” stated Mozilla lawyer Harvey Anderson.

A lot of the domains that were seized by the government have been relocated to other domains that the government cannot take down. The government has the ability to take down .com, .net, and .org domain names.

[Wired]

]]> http://pulse2.com/2011/05/05/homeland-security-wants-mozilla-to-take-down-mafiaafire-redirector-add-on/feed/ 2 Google To Lose Search Market Share In Russia http://pulse2.com/2009/01/09/google-to-lose-search-market-share-in-russia/ http://pulse2.com/2009/01/09/google-to-lose-search-market-share-in-russia/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:31:09 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=9913 Continue reading →]]> Google has been the default search engine company for the Mozilla Firefox browser.  This is mainly due to Google’s financial support of Mozilla.  In 2006, Google paid Mozilla about $57 million which amounted to 85% of their revenue.  But now the Russian version of Firefox will be dropping Google as the default browser and switch it to Google’s Russian rival Yandex.

According to a blog post by Mozilla General Counsel Harvey Anderson, Russian Firefox users “wanted direct access to the Yandex search services in official Firefox RU builds” based on studying trends of Firefox Yandex builds.  For the Firefox 3.1 Russian locale builds, Yandex will become the default search engine.  This version will be released in the next few weeks.

In the last few months, Yandex was planning on going IPO, but postponed it until the economy recovers.  Yandex gets about 50 million searches per day.

[Via Webware & TechCrunch]

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