No Apps For Ayatollahs
Samsung has just announced that, as of May 22, it is shutting off access from Iran to its mobile phone app store. The move, announced in an email to customers, was somewhat vague about the reason for the decision, citing…
Clif Burns
Arms Treaty Foe Cites Export Reform As Reason for Opposition
ABOVE:Baker Spring I don’t know who Baker Spring is, other than some flak for a Washington think tank, but he has, for some reason, decided to join Iran, North Korea and Syria in opposing the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. According…
T-Platforms Placed on Entity List; SUNY No Longer Feels Sunny
Some tech writers have just discovered the Bureau of Industry and Securities’ Entity List and they are, well, perplexed. Arstechnica, Slashdot and HPC Wire all weighed in on the mysterious list, with all three expressing some surprise that U.S. companies…
Now We Are More
Pay attention to the by-lines on posts here now that my colleague George Murphy has agreed to contribute posts. The post just above this one — the one about the “non-egregious” OFAC violation by San Corporation — comes from George.…
Export Control Final Transition Plan Announced
Today DDTC released its final transition plan for the first wave of export control reform under which certain items in Category VIII of the USML are transitioned to a new “600 series” of controls in Category 9 of the CCL.…