Category Archives: Tech

• Newsweek: “Is the Internet Driving Us Mad?” 30 January 2013 | M Wizard no comments

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

• Creaking Internet needs to get the rebuilders in 12 January 2013 | John Naughton no comments

  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 1 January 2013 no comments

  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 18 December 2012 | C. Custer no comments

  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 14 December 2012 | Charles Arthur no comments

  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 11 December 2012 | Dashiell Bennett no comments

  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. ...

• Why the world is arguing over who runs the internet 10 December 2012 | Wendy M. Grossman no comments

  WCIT decisions in Dubai "have the potential to put government handcuffs on the internet". How worried should we be? ...

• Researchers find new Mac keylogging trojan on site about Dalai Lama 3 December 2012 | Steve Huff no comments

  A Mac-based malware program "Dockster" that functions as a keylogger, among other things, has been found embedded on gyalwarinpoche.com. ...

• UN Internet regulation treaty talks begin in Dubai 2 December 2012 | Leo Kelion no comments

  The UN's International Telecommunications Union is trying to calm fears that the Internet could be damaged by a conference it is hosting. ...

• Cyber warriors, the need of the hour in India 26 November 2012 | Nishanti Kumar no comments

  If combating malware, hackers and cyber crimes are your passion, this is the right time to be a cyber security expert. ...