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Fight Internet Censorship! Do You Dare To Go Black?
Do you have the courage to stay off the Internet for just one day – a mere 24-hours? If so, you’ll be joining one of the most important websites and…
Wikipedia Threatens Site Closure
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has threatened a ‘strike’ which would black out the English-language site as a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act. If the anti-piracy bill currently under…
SOPA and ‘The Big Bang’ On Censorship
As we were all taught at some point in early education, the big bang theory entailed an explosion in space that produced this earth we live in as well as…
SOPA On A Rope
We went through the many Napster lawsuits that put a scare into file sharing world; also, we read first- hand how traditional file sharing went bit torrent to attempt to…
OpenLeaks Set To Launch As WikiLeaks Alternative
Image via Wikipedia A former assistant to Julian Assange – WikiLeaks founder, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, has revealed plans to launch an alternative to WikiLeaks called OpenLeaks (www.openleaks.org). The rival site which…
Should Internet Copyright Laws Be Relaxed?
Image via Wikipedia As the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced that Britain’s intellectual property laws will be reviewed in order to ”make them fit for the Internet age”, to allow greater use of…
REVIEW: Wikileaks
Image via Wikipedia Before today, most people only identified the term ‘Wiki’ with Wikipedia. However, more recently Wikileaks has gained tremendous popularity howbeit in controversial circumstances after it released over…
UPDATE –Microsoft Banned From Selling MS Word
A recent court injuction preventing Microsoft from selling Word (from mid-October, 2009), after a patent dispute with I4i, has been overturned. The BBC reports that following the ruling, Microsoft filed…
Google To Reduce Porn Results
Following criticism from the Chinese Internet watchdog, China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre (CIIRC), Google.cn has promised to do everything possible to remove pornography from its portal. The watchdog has…
Fast Broadband: Taking a Cue from Japan
Japan’s investment in super-fast Internet networks seems to have finally paid off. The country now boasts of one of the fastest broadband services in the world due to an increase…
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