ENTRIES TAGGED "iran"

Developer Week in Review: Flash marginalization continues

Flash ditches Linux, a developer faces death, and we get a peek inside Foxconn.

by James Turner | @blackbearnh | +James Turner | February 23, 2012

If you use Linux, either start using Chrome as your browser or get ready to give up Flash. A developer faces execution in Iran because of how someone used software he wrote, and the world gets to see what it's like to build iPads and iPhones.

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Interesting Questions Raised by Iranian Twitter Activism

by Timothy M. O'Brien | @tobrien | +Timothy M. O'Brien | June 16, 2009

Development (4:10 PM CST): The State Department has been in contact with Twitter to make sure that the service remained available for protestors in Iran (reuters). Last Friday, Twitter started to digest the Iranian election results, and the tool became a powerful vehicle for protest and coordination for student protestors within Iran and interested parties outside the country.

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