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Environment Agency wants individual carbon rationing

Dave Parrack — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:45:30 +0000

Carbon emissions and carbon footprints have been in the news a lot over the past few years. But while politicians and celebrities have taken up the cause of reducing these, it hasn’t really [...]

Google tries not to be creepy

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:53:26 +0000

Despite a great deal of consternation by users of their myriad services about the huge amounts of data gathered on users by Google, their founder and CEO says that they are trying hard not to [...]

The iPhone invades China

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:52:09 +0000

The iPhone has gone on sale in China, ushering in a new wave of American – Chinese relations, based not on cold war tensions or brinkmanship, but on smartphone technology.

There was a time when gunboat diplomacy was the order [...]

White House goes open source

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:08:51 +0000

The Obama team campaigned partially on technology matters and have kept more than a little of their attention there. Now they have revamped the White House Web site and have done it using open source!

For those of [...]

AT&T employees asked to turn lobbyist over net neutrality

John Lister — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:16:54 +0000

An AT&T executive has asked the firm’s employees to contact the Federal Communication Commission and argue against its plans to enforce net neutrality. The request controversially suggests staff members to use personal e-mail addresses when making the arguments.

The letter, from Jim [...]

Big name websites back net neutrality

John Lister — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:19:10 +0000

Bosses of some of the Internet’s best-known Web sites have called for the Federal Communications Commission to stick to its plans to enforce net neutrality principles. It follows lobbying by 72 Democrat congressmen asking the FCC to go easy on the policy.

The congressmen [...]

Broadband to be a right, not a privilege, in Finland

John Lister — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:57:00 +0000

Finland is set to become the first country to give every citizen the right to access broadband services. It’s just announced a 1Mb minimum will apply from next July, ahead of a target of a 100Mb minimum by 2015.

According to [...]

Huge Australian broadband project begins

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:37:07 +0000

Australia, a country about twice the size of the entire European Union, has begun a daring and complex project to bring very high-speed fiber-optic broadband to virtually all of its citizens.

The world is watching the Australian project [...]

Bloggers not safe from impersonating the police

Mike Ferro — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:56:46 +0000

Some have called the Internet the new Wild West without law or order. It seems the hot issues that have been cropping up lately revolve around distinguishing the line between free speech [...]

What are Obama’s cyber-war powers?

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:19:11 +0000

With worries over cyber-attacks growing, questions are beginning to arise about what powers the Obama administration has in defending against coordinated attacks against critical American sites.

The reality of the problems that can be caused by cyber-attacks were [...]