The "core values of Hong Kong" (freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law) are the most debated topics in many election forums of the upcoming Legislative Council (LegCo) Election, which is scheduled on Sunday (September 9). The ...
Tags: Legco Election, Internet Freedom, Hong Kong, Government IT
The "core values of Hong Kong" (freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law) are the most debated topics in many election forums of the upcoming Legislative Council (LegCo) Election, which is scheduled on Sunday (September 9). The ...
Tags: Legco Election, Internet Freedom, Hong Kong, Government IT
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has slammed as"technologically incompetent"the Draft Data Communications Bill,which will make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails,phone calls and internet activity of UK citizens. ...
Tags: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, slams draft communications data bill, ISPs
Current internet subscription business models are ineffective, and are holding up development of services in the UK, fibre communications firm Level 3 has told Computing. James Taylor, EMEA content service product manager at Level 3, ...
The House of Lords Communications Committee today slammed the government's broadband strategy, claiming the UK "can and must do better" when rolling out internet infrastructure. The committee has been gathering evidence since February ...
Australian telecommunications company AAPT has confirmed some business customer data was compromised in a breach of computer systems at an external service provider. The telco began investigating after hacktivist group Anonymous ...
Tags: AAPT, business customer data, computer systems, external service
Virgin Media, Vodafone and Everything Everywhere are refusing to sign up to a new code of conduct for internet service providers (ISPs) aimed at guaranteeing full and open access to the internet. Ten ISPs, including BT, O2 and Talk Talk, ...
Tags: Virgin Media, Vodafone, Everything Everywhere, internet service
A block on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is proving ineffective, according to data from a top UK internet service provider (ISP). In May, the UK High Court ruled that UK ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay site – but the 11% ...
Tags: file-sharing site, internet service, network, music-playing site
Rural areas will need to help finance broadband roll-outs if UK schemes for better connectivity are to succeed. This was the conclusion of Conservative MP Rory Stewart, who spoke at the House of Lords' communications select committee ...
Tags: Broadband infrastructure, broadband, wireless, Rural wireless service
Editors note: The following review is part of Macworlds GemFest 2012 series. Every weekday from mid June through mid August, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or low-cost program. Visit the Mac ...
Tags: NetUse, Traffic Monitor, Internet, bandwidth
The European Commission(EC)plans to have its broadband policy formally adopted by member states by the end of 2012. EC vice-president and leader of the digital agenda,Neelie Kroes,outlined key aspects of the policy during a speech in ...
Tags: EC, Broadband, Policy, Private Sector
Government-sponsored servers designed to keep DNSChanger-infected PCs and Macs online were switched off earlier today as scheduled,but several major U.S.Internet service providers downplayed problems to their customers. The number of IP ...
Tags: ISPs, substitute servers, DNSChanger, malware
The Wireless Broadband Alliance(WBA)has announced the list of operators set to take part in its next-generation hotspot(NGH)trials later this year. BT,Sky(which owns The Cloud Wi-Fi network)and TalkTalk have signed up as the ...
Google and Amazon pay for faster connections Lack of transparency over traffic management EC could force net neutrality issue Consumers need to know about net management The questions of how to handle the growing amount of traffic on ...
Tags: Google and Amazon, transparency, EC, net neutrality issue