Category Archives: Tech
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Newsweek: “Is the Internet Driving Us Mad?”
30 January 2013 | M Wizard
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The Internet "leads to behavior that people are conscious is not in their best interest". ...
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Creaking Internet needs to get the rebuilders in
12 January 2013 | John Naughton
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A new network architecture, with all its desirable "security" features, might stifle the creativity that the old, open and uncontrolled, network enabled. ...
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Internet quietly celebrates its 30th birthday
1 January 2013
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The Internet, a revolutionary and cheap communications system that has transformed the lives of billions of people across the world, turned 30 today. ...
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Web of Failure: How China’s Internet policies have doomed Chinese soft power
18 December 2012 | C. Custer
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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, ...
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Internet remains unregulated after UN treaty blocked
14 December 2012 | Charles Arthur
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Failure to sign agreement at ITU conference stops governments having greater powers to control phone calls and data on the Internet. ...
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The Chinese want to know why China is on Twitter and they aren’t
11 December 2012 | Dashiell Bennett
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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. ...
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Why the world is arguing over who runs the internet
10 December 2012 | Wendy M. Grossman
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WCIT decisions in Dubai "have the potential to put government handcuffs on the internet". How worried should we be? ...
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Researchers find new Mac keylogging trojan on site about Dalai Lama
3 December 2012 | Steve Huff
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A Mac-based malware program "Dockster" that functions as a keylogger, among other things, has been found embedded on gyalwarinpoche.com. ...
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UN Internet regulation treaty talks begin in Dubai
2 December 2012 | Leo Kelion
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The UN's International Telecommunications Union is trying to calm fears that the Internet could be damaged by a conference it is hosting. ...
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Cyber warriors, the need of the hour in India
26 November 2012 | Nishanti Kumar
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If combating malware, hackers and cyber crimes are your passion, this is the right time to be a cyber security expert. ...