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Amid growing concerns that U.S. Internet companies are bowing to foreign censors, Microsoft announced a set of policies Tuesday aimed at better protecting blogs and other online content from government restrictions. It remains to be seen whether the company's new approach will enable more free speech in countries such as China, but one expert in online rights said it appears to be a promising...

It's not easy being Wikipedia, a free web encyclopedia created and edited by anonymous contributors. Just ask founder Jimmy Wales, who has seen his creation come under fire in just a few short months as the site fends off vandalism and charges of inaccurate entries. “Wikipedia has always been in a state of change,” says Wales, in defense of his product. That’s putting it mildly. On November 29...

COPENHAGEN, January 31, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Representatives of Danish Muslims said Tuesday, January 31, they accepted the apology of a Danish newspaper for its blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), urging more reasonable tone about Islam and Muslims and steps to stop a boycott of Danish products in the Muslim world. "We will clearly and articulately thank the prime...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 30 – A long-running controversy over the publication of caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad by a Danish newspaper boiled over in the past few days as a boycott brought sales of some Danish products to a halt in Arab countries across the Middle East, while Danish interests came under attack. A diverse group of Muslim activists has stirred a consumer uproar...

GAZA (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians protested against Denmark on Tuesday for allowing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad to be published, and Arab ministers called on the Copenhagen government to punish the newspaper that printed them. Demonstrators burned Danish flags, chanted "War on Denmark, Death to Denmark" and called for an Arab boycott of products from the small north European country...

A simmering controversy exploded into a firestorm of protest across the Middle East on 30 January over a series of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that were printed in two Scandinavian newspapers. From Gaza to Cairo, from Beirut to Baghdad, demonstrators took to the streets as religious leaders and politicians threatened economic boycotts -- and worse -- if the newspapers did not condemn the...

Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, meeting with the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in Copenhagen this weekend, chose to take a positive view of the increasingly volatile conflict over newspaper Jyllands-Posten's caricatures of the prophet Mohammed. Karzai, in Europe to attend the World Economic Forum, was visiting Denmark to discuss the country's contribution to the...

Brussels, Jan 31, IRNA: The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, repeated Tuesday warnings of reprisals against countries which impose a trade boycott on Denmark for publication of cartoons insulting Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him) "Any WTO member state that backed boycott of this kind would expose itself to serious criticisms under the WTO. We cannot rule out the possibility of such...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Time Inc., after eliminating 105 management jobs just before Christmas, is moving to cut about 100 more, including up to 10 at its flagship, Time magazine, a product of Time Warner (TWX) The New York Times reported in its Tuesday editions. Both editorial and business-side employees are being cut at several of the company's domestic magazines. About 40 business-side...

The Editor-In-Chief of the Parrot Newspaper, Alfred Kaine narrowly escaped death when he was attacked and brutalized by four thugs last Saturday night on 11th Street in Sinkor in the area adjacent the Sarafina Communications Building. According to the Parrot Editor-In-Chief, his attackers, who were on board a Toyota Pathfinder four wheel drive vehicle, trailed him from the Capital Bye Pass through...