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The country attracted our attention today is Tanzania located in central East Africa. The country is bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south. Actually, Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world, being deprived its natural wealth and resources and totally dependent on help from the rest of the world.

According to a report by the Internet security firm AVG 7 of the 10 safest countries in which to use the Internet are in Africa, with Sierra Leone rated the safest. Researchers of the security vendor made up a list of virus and malware attacks by country picked up by AVG security software, with data from more than 127 million computers in 144 countries to determine incidence rates of such attacks. Average incident rate for Sierra Leone was one attack for every 692 Web surfers.

Sierra Leone was followed by Niger with one in every 442 surfers likely to be attacked while online.

We are to consider today Internet and e-commerce industry of one of the Arabic countries, located in Western Asia, Iraq. This Muslim country is spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert. Iraq is bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south. The economy of the country is dominated by the oil sector, which has traditionally provided about 95% of foreign exchange earnings.

New tools for measuring social media efficiency have been released by ShareThis, which reaches 400 million people a month through social media share buttons across content all over the web. One of the tools is Audience Index, which lets publishers understand and compare their social audiences against 850,000 other sites (and soon against categories), find out what types of influencers your site attracts, and find out how well you connect with influencers, listeners, and engaged customers. The other metric tools might be even more useful. That would be "Social Reach".

The country Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to consider today is South Africa. The country is located at the southern tip of Africa, with a 2,798 kilometres coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north of the South Africa lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory. South Africa is known for diversity in cultures and languages. The economy of the country is mixed with high rate of poverty and low GDP per capita.

Groundswell Productions and producer John Morris bought the movie rights to Ken Auletta’s 2009 book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It, according to Hollywood.com. They will use the book as the blueprint for a feature film that tells the story of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and the fast rise of the juggernaut web business that made them billionaires.

North Korean move to join Twitter was welcomed by the US government who also called upon the insular nation to let its citizens also see the recently opened account and access the web at all.

"We use Twitter to connect, to inform, and to debate. We welcome North Korea to Twitter and the networked world," wrote Philip Crowley, a state department spokesman on his Twitter account.

The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Fonts Working Group announced the launch of version 1.0 of The Web Open File Format (WOFF) which provides a platform for open source and commercial providers of fonts to make their creations easily available across the Web, according to W3C fonts activity lead Chris Lilley.

Free Press, ColorofChange.org, Credo Action, MoveOn.org and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee will go on a rally to protest a recent proposal by Google and Verizon Communications at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, Friday.

The organizers of the rally hope to convince Google, which has long voiced support for net neutrality, to abandon the joint proposal with Verizon. Critics of the Google/Verizon net neutrality proposal have called it a weak alternative to other efforts aiming to prohibit broadband providers from selectively blocking Web traffic.

Apple has become the most hated trademark on the Internet as reported by a new study released by the social media analyst firm Brandwatch.

Brandwatch found that now Apple is the brand that is most commonly associated with the term #fail. That hashtag first originated on Twitter, but has since spread throughout the Internet to become a general term of derision and criticism.

Brandwatch found more use of that hashtag for Apple and its products than any other company. According to the Economic Times the report found:

Google Wave has gathered “numerous loyal fans” reports the company in its official blog posting which announces the discontinuation of the service. In an effort to save Google Wave the fans of the service have created a dedicated webpage the “Save Google Wave!"

The new “Save Google Wave!" website at SaveGoogleWave.com. It offers visitors the chance to express their support by giving the cause a virtual thumbs up, and a little over 20,500 individuals have done so to date.

63% of web users believe it is acceptable for their country to spy on other sates using malware or hacking tools, reports the new study from a security company Sophos. The firm’s 2010 mid-year Security Threat Report shows that 49% of users think denial-of-service (DoS) attack on another country to bring down their financial or communications services is okay during wartime, while seven percent admitted they think it's okay to carry out a DoS attack against another nation at any time.

Tunisia is the North African country Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to consider today. Bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east, Tunisia represents the smallest of the nations situated along the Atlas mountain range. Importantly, this African country has close relations with both the European Union and the Arab world, being also a member of the Arab League and the African union.

All that noise in the media about the antenna issue in iPhone 4 has nothing to do with the owners of the device as the new study shows. ChangeWave Research published the results of the research which revealed that most Apple iPhone 4 users feel very good about their purchase.

AOL posted a massive quarterly loss, having swallowed a Q2 goodwill impairment charge related to its sell-off of Bebo. To make things worse the company also reported that its advertising revenue dropped by 27% in the quarter ended June 30. In the same period a year earlier AOL pulled in $355.7m.

Overall revenues declined 26% to $584.1m during the quarter.

The loss reported by AOL made up $1.6bn, or $9.89 a share, compared with a profit of $90.7m or 86 cents a share in its 2009 Q2. AOL was also hit with a goodwill impairment charge of $1.4bn during the quarter.