Wednesday, July 15, 2009
China pulls plug on shock treatment for Internet addicts Net junkies rejoice. The government has banned a controversial treatment for Internet addictions which, according to some bloggers, involved being tied down and shocked for 30 minutes at a time at one hospital...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Google site blocked in China? Google appears to be the first casualty of a growing Internet censorship drive in China. A Canada-based pro Net neutrality organization says The Web filtering software Green Dam Youth Escort is far more intrusive that Chinese authorities claim
Sunday, January 25, 2009
1 billion Web users and counting Internet users surpassed the 1 billion mark last month reminding everyone that the world is becoming more flat, according to online research firm ComScore 
Thursday, August 07, 2008
U.S., Russia in WiMAX race A Russian ISP invests in Nortel gear for Moscow, while Sprint plans to cover D.C. by year's end
Monday, September 10, 2007
Patriot Act struck down by U.S. judge Judge Victor Marrero, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruled that the Patriot Act provision that allows the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to obtain ISP and telecom subscribers' billing, calling and Web surfing records without court approval violates the U.S. Constitution.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
U.S. judge strikes down Patriot Act provision The U.S. Patriot Act suffered a blow when a New York judge slammed a controversial provision dealing with privacy of personal information. What the 107-page court order says about free speech and the U.S. Constitution. 
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
The top 10 developments in the world of e-commerce The past 10 years have seen many changes in the world of e-commerce: Wi-Fi connectivity, the BlackBerry and even iTunes and YouTube have all dramatically impacted business, government and personal computing. To mark these developments, a top 10 list has been compiled by industry experts.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Microsoft execs to face UK gov't security questions The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is preparing to grill senior Microsoft executives over the company's steps to create a secure internet. 
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
CRTC bill of rights neglects cell phone, Internet users While the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) legalese-free "bill of rights" - covering local telephone service - may be lauded a pro-consumer initiative in that it untangles confusing rules and regulations, it fails to offer protections to cell phone and Internet service users, says a consumer advocacy group.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
New virtual ID system combats Net predators Online predators rely on the anonymity and open access offered by the Web to lure young victims. But a new system dubbed NetIDMe – soon to be available in Canada – may break through their subterfuge. 
Friday, August 04, 2006
Lies, damned lies, and statistics Stats Can lie. Take the recent survey "finding" by Statistics Canada - based on a 2005 general social survey - that "heavy" Internet users spend less time in social face-to-face contact with other people. My first reaction was to accept that "finding" at face value. It's only on further reflection that some of the cracks in the argument became apparent. 
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Anonymizer takes battle to China's Net censors Chinese Internet censors take more than a week to identify and block access to sites that allow Internet users to circumvent their controls, according to a top executive at Anonymizer Inc. That's good news for Anonymizer, which recently introduced its Operation: Anti-Censorship software that allows Chinese Internet users to access blocked sites.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Google's Blogger gets blocked again in China Access to Google Inc.'s free Web log service, Blogger, appears to once again be blocked by official censors in China, less than two months after the service became accessible to users here. The Chinese government has a policy of blocking access to Internet sites that it deems undesirable but the specifics of these efforts, which can change over time, are not generally acknowledged by officials in public. 
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Blogging starts to take off in China, analyst says The number of registered blogs in China has more than doubled since the beginning of this year, according to a market research firm in Beijing. China had 33.4 million registered blogs at the end of the third quarter, up more than 100 per cent since January, when it had 14.5 million blogs, said research company Analysys International.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Advocacy groups step up battle against spyware With the Anti-Spyware Coalition's (ASC) final definitions of spyware in place, public interest advocacy groups have wasted no time in their quest to put malicious spyware distributors out of business. Two advocacy groups in Canada and the US have been particularly active in this struggle against spyware. 
Sunday, September 25, 2005
China issues new regulations for Internet news The Chinese government announced on Sunday a new set of regulations intended to tighten control over news reported on the Internet, but it was not immediately clear what, if any, effect the new regulations will have. 
Thursday, September 15, 2005
E-commerce to maintain steady growth in Philippines The widespread availability and affordability of broadband Internet is pushing more Filipinos to transact online. According to a recent study conducted by IT research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), Internet users in the Philippines are estimated to maintain a healthy 22 per cent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) for the forecast period of 2005-2009. 
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Lost Packets He may not be Peter Parker but British chef Matthew Stevens saved his own life with the help of his trusty camera phone after being bitten by the world’s deadliest spider.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Implications of an improving Internet Most of the Internet has been getting better over the past few years. In much of the world, the Internet is now good enough for all but the most demanding applications.
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Army of zombies invades China Zombies, or Internet-connected computers infected by worms or viruses and under the control of a hacker, are used to launch denial of service (DoS) attacks, or send spam or phishing e-mails. An average of 157,000 new zombies are identified each day, and 20 per cent of these are in China, security company CipherTrust Inc. reported this week. 
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Vietnam's ICT market tops US$2B as Web use surges Vietnam's information and communications technology (ICT) industry was worth US$2 billion over the last 12 months, 38 per cent higher than in the previous year, the Ho Chi Minh City Informatics Association (HCMIA) reported Tuesday.
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Finding freedom behind China's Great Firewall In the beginning, some observers predicted that opening China to the Internet would unleash an uncontrollable flood of information that would lead to the collapse of the Chinese government. 
Sunday, February 22, 2004
Windows source code leak leads to IE hole A bug hunter claims to have uncovered a security flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) 5 Web browser by studying Windows source code that was leaked this month. 
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Windows source code leak leads to IE hole A bug hunter claims to have uncovered a security flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) 5 Web browser by studying Windows source code that was leaked last week.
Sunday, November 30, 2003
Vietnam opens broadband market Reacting to strong demand for ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) broadband services, the government has allowed a second company to start offering broadband in competition with state carrier Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Corp. (VNPT).