Category Archives: Tech

5 international social networks to keep an eye on

5 international social networks to keep an eye on | Webware – CNET.

High-speed internet coverage for all of rural N.B. in 18 months: Byrne

High-speed internet coverage for all of rural N.B. in 18 months: Byrne.

Seventy percent of all Twitter users signed up in 2008

Daily Tidbits: Seventy percent of all Twitter users signed up in 2008 | Webware – CNET.

Film-style ratings needed for websites: British minister

Film-style ratings needed for websites: British minister.

China blocks N.Y. Times, Ming Pao

China blocks N.Y. Times, Ming Pao.

Plane crash live on Twitter

Plane crash live on Twitter – web – Technology – smh.com.au.
Plane crash geek Twitters from burning Denver aircraft

Axia shows its NBN hand

Axia shows its NBN hand | Australian IT.

Labor plan to censor internet in shreds

Labor plan to censor internet in shreds – Technology – smh.com.au.
Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to critics saying that the so-called “live” trials would be “a closed network test and will not involve actual customers”
Huh?
A “live” trial – on a closed network without actual customers.
So, what’s this supposed to prove?
How dumb is Senator Conroy?  [...]

Telstra BigPond refuses to participate in net filter trials

Telstra BigPond refuses to participate in net filter trials – Internet – iTnews Australia.

Wikipedia Censorship Sparks Free Speech Debate

Wikipedia Censorship Sparks Free Speech Debate – washingtonpost.com.
Update: U.K. Internet watchdog backtracks on Wikipedia ban – CNET News
More on the banned Wikipedia page.