Tech

• India introduces Central Monitoring System ON THE WEB, 8 May 2013 | Phil Muncaster This post has no comments yet

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

• World Wide Web turns 20 GENEVA, Switzerland, 1 May 2013 This post has no comments yet

  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? ON THE WEB, 25 April 2013 | Theresa Riley This post has no comments yet

  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 LONDON, UK, 26 March 2013 | Paul Sandle This post has no comments yet

  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?” ON THE WEB, 30 January 2013 | M Wizard This post has no comments yet

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

• Creaking Internet needs to get the rebuilders in ON THE WEB, 12 January 2013 | John Naughton This post has no comments yet

  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 ON THE WEB, 1 January 2013 This post has no comments yet

  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 ON THE WEB, 18 December 2012 | C. Custer This post has no comments yet

  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 ON THE WEB, 14 December 2012 | Charles Arthur This post has no comments yet

  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 ON THE WEB, 11 December 2012 | Dashiell Bennett This post has no comments yet

  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. ...