Tech

  • India introduces Central Monitoring System

    India’s privacy laws are not strong enough to protect individuals in the face of such potentially invasive powers. ...

  • World Wide Web turns 20

    The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today's Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web, organisers said on Tuesday. ...

  • Are geeks the new guardians of our civil liberties?

    Anonymous, the hacktivist collective that Fox News once called “the Internet hate machine” has undergone a dramatic rebranding in recent months. ...

  • Just do it, says Yahoo’s teen app millionaire

    Got a tech idea and want to make a fortune before you're out of your teens? Just do it, is the advice of 17-year-old Nick D'Aloisio, author of Summly. ...

  • Newsweek: “Is the Internet Driving Us Mad?”

    The Internet "leads to behavior that people are conscious is not in their best interest". ...

  • Creaking Internet needs to get the rebuilders in

    A new network architecture, with all its desirable "security" features, might stifle the creativity that the old, open and uncontrolled, network enabled. ...

  • Internet quietly celebrates its 30th birthday

    The Internet, a revolutionary and cheap communications system that has transformed the lives of billions of people across the world, turned 30 today. ...

  • Web of Failure: How China’s Internet policies have doomed Chinese soft power

    In the long term, I suspect China's Internet Great Firewall will prove to be domestically unsustainable. But until the wall comes down, China’s attempts at soft power are little more than a pipe dream, ...

  • Internet remains unregulated after UN treaty blocked

    Failure to sign agreement at ITU conference stops governments having greater powers to control phone calls and data on the Internet. ...

  • The Chinese want to know why China is on Twitter and they aren’t

    Chinese internet users are a little miffed today after the learning that the Communist Party's official news service has its own Twitter account, @XHNews — even though Twitter is banned in China. ...