New Phone Project Turns Surveillance Technology On Its Head

Google’s threats to pull out of China over censorship and hacking issues highlights the dangers of State misuse of technology for questionable surveillance .

 And while pulling out of a country is one way for an individual company to deal with this contentious issue there are other people and group working on a more creative ways round the problem.

Tibetan Characters Now Supported by Smart Phonesb

Social activist and software designer Nathan Freitas has found a way for Tibetan writing characters to be supported by the new  Android smart phones.

The software enables Tibetan support in all applications on Android, including the web browser, e-mail apps, instant messaging, and short messaging (SMS), among others.

Freitas says on his Web site: “thanks to the open-source movement and the hard work of many Tibet supporters and typography experts, I am happy to announce that  rendering of Tibetan characters is now supported on the most fantastic of mobile smartphones, Google Android!!!

Tendor’s Yarlung Raging blog viewed on a T-Mobile myTouch3G Android Phone

For those interested the Freitas’s Web site has for no charge the technical “how to” to support the Tibetan language on Android.