Turkey’s courts have blocked access to Twitter days before elections as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan battles a corruption scandal that has seen social media platforms awash with alleged evidence of government wrongdoing.
The ban came hours after a defiant Erdoğan, on the campaign trail ahead of key March 30 local elections, vowed to “wipe out” Twitter and said he did not care what the international community had to say about it.
Erdoğan’s ruling AK Party has already tightened Internet controls, handed government more influence over the courts, and reassigned thousands of police and hundreds of prosecutors and judges as it fights a corruption scandal he has cast as a plot by political enemies to oust him.
On a mission to make music fully mobile, affordable and heard, digital entertainment company, Spinlet has launched its highly anticipated Spinlet Music Download Site which is now accessible on all Macs, PCs, tablets and smartphones. Using ‘active rendering technology’ that is responsively designed to automatically adjust to any screen size, the download site optimises the user experience, ensuring it will become a firm fan favourite. The first issue of the service, available from today, will allow consumers to buy tracks and albums, while Spinlet’s streaming platform is projected to come online before the end of Q4 2013.
To complement this launch, the company is releasing an updated user interface for its existing mobile apps - Android, Blackberry, iOS, Windows Phone and JavaME - with better content discovery and a smoother payment flow.
