In the final part of this article series I want to look at what the future might hold for the Internet and all of us who use it. So far I’ve discussed how secretive governments view the Internet in Part 1, Asked if the west wants to constrain it in Part 2 and then into [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Does the West want to constrain the Internet..? Part 2
Yesterday I wrote and article about how Iran apparently wants to create its own in-country Internet. This move is almost unprecedented with only North Korea having done this before. In the article I discussed the situation with Internet access in these two countries and also in China, which has a reasonable open policy for web [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Iran to create its own Internet… Part 1
The Internet is a fascinating place, especially when countries that don’t embrace the concepts of freedom of expression and freedom of speech are involved. Each of these countries takes it’s own view of what the Internet should be, and they usually follow political conventions in those countries. This could be set to change however. Iran [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
- Comments: 4
How Did You Hear About Osama? I Bet It Wasn’t On TV…
The way we consume media has changed drastically over the last few years. Instead of watching the nightly news, we are getting news real-time. And the news we get is no longer filtered by big media companies. We’re just as likely to get the news from a person who sees it happen as we are [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
- Comments: 6
Keeping Your Information Safe Online, Some Strategies
>In light of Sony’s security breach last week it’s clear that Internet security is a major issue and work clearly needs to be done, and done quickly, on implementing new web security standards, for instance the authentication of email which people have been talking about for years. Not to mention the fairly obvious increase that’s [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
5 Useful Internet Tools For Web Junkies
5 Useful Internet Tools looks at web applications that Internet users may find useful. These tools aid you in various tasks, from storing information to specific web searches and reminding you that your Internet time for the day is up. The usefulness of the tools depends largely on how you are using the Internet. If [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
Bookmarklets For Annoyances On The Internet
The Internet is full of annoyances. That does not mean that you encounter them on every website you visit, but chance is relatively high that you stumble upon sites regularly that have features that you find annoying. This starts with pretty basic annoyances, blinking text for instance or background music which are thankfully more or [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
- Comments: 2
Google, Facebook and Yahoo Ready IPv6 Test
The first global test of the IPv6 net addressing system will take place on June 8th, and Google, Facebook, Akamai and Yahoo will all be taking part, according to a report by the BBC. It’s been widely reported that the Internet is rapidly running out of addresses using the existing addressing system, IPv4. The estimate [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 11
Complete Internet Repair
The Internet is not working, again, or you are experiencing connection issues, drops or high pings. What’s the cause? You have no idea but know that you need it fixed asap. Instead of having to go through a lengthy troubleshooting session you could instead try to fix the Internet issues with Complete Internet Repair. The [...]