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...including U.S.-based Peppercoin and CyberCash offered online payment systems that didn't catch on. PlaySpan CEO Karl Mehta says this is because "there was not enough digital content to consume." That's changing. Mehta predicts that micropayment services will over the next few years become available on a wide range of gaming and social websites - adding that there's no reason they can't be used to buy newspaper and magazine articles, too. "The newspaper industry is now crying for this kind of solution," he says. If it works, publishers might be able to nickel-and-dime their...
Looked at one way, the results of the European parliamentary elections, held across the European Union's 27 member states last week, can be seen as a continent-wide rejection of the center left and an embrace of the center right - with some far-right candidates doing well, too. Socialist and social democratic parties were badly beaten, despite the global economic crisis and misgivings in Europe about unbridled capitalism. "Voters do not want socialism, they want a market system that works," reckoned Corien Wortmann-Kool, who was re-elected for the Dutch center-right CDA party...
...question for foreigners is how actively to encourage North Korea's Internet integration. An initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - also currently stalled because of the recent chill in bilateral relations - would pave the way for North Korean access to a wide swath of online university databases. That could provide critical assistance to Pyongyang's multiple development challenges, including growing enough food to feed its people; the country suffered a famine in the mid-'90s that claimed 2 million to 3 million lives and still suffers chronic malnutrition...
...anti-Establishment artworks, but law-enforcement figures can easily find loopholes that they can use to detain artists. They are helped by legislation passed in 2002 that forbids the expression of extremism. The law is intended to combat far-right nationalism, but many artists have been caught in its wide...
...media. Some of the material is powerful, even indelible. Particularly haunting is the 40-second YouTube video that shows a young woman, wearing jeans but otherwise dressed conservatively, suddenly falling to the sidewalk, shot in the heart. Her eyes turn to what must be a cell-phone camera, wide and shocked and dying as we stare at her. Men rush to her side and try to stanch the wound, but blood trickles from her mouth as an older man - later described as her father - cries and cries. Hours after the video surfaced, people on Twitter said she had not been...