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Eternal Internet - Nov 15, 2009

Blogs Ever thought about how Web pages are linked to each other? In his book Linked, Albert-Làszlò Barabàsi describes the topology of the Internet as a scale-free network. Webpages are connected to ... Read story »

One-third of Internet users in India carry out digital transactions--good growth - Nov 30, 2009

Blogs Last week, Mr R Chandrasekhar, who happens to be Secretary of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the Indian Government, made public some startling finds ... Read story »

.中国 is coming, and China is pleased - Nov 1, 2009

Blogs The Internet, for its 40th birthday this week, got quite a shakeup: For the first time ever, Internet domain extensions can comprise non-Latin characters. After the domination of .com, .net, .co.jp, ... Read story »

Pros and cons of Google SideWiki - Sep 25, 2009

Blogs Just recently, Google announced a new service called SideWiki, where it allows users to contribute helpful information next to any Web page. Google Sidewiki appears as a browser sidebar, where users ... Read story »

Neil Gaiman's audio book based on tweets - Oct 13, 2009

Crave Neil Gaiman is using Twitter to solicit contributions for an audio book project. Twitter may not be making money but at least it's providing a forum for some innovative artistic ... Read story »

Intel processor roadmap leaked ahead of CES 2010 - Nov 30, 2009

Crave It's impossible to keep secrets these days. Intel's processor roadmap, which was probably planned for CES 2010, has leaked all over the Internet. Not too many surprises here, as the supposed ... Read story »

Why China's "Great Firewall" is so anti-social (networking)... - Sep 11, 2009

Blogs 2009 in China has turned out to be the year of heightened Web censorship, implemented by the nationwide filtering system known--not very affectionately--as "The Great Firewall".Many hoped that the Beijing Olympics ... Read story »

An open letter... - Oct 19, 2009

Blogs Dear friends Since the conception of sending out paper with writing to each other in the form of mail, companies have been taking advantage of this system to throw in advertisements ... Read story »

Children of the Internet - Aug 7, 2009

Blogs The World Wide Web was unleashed upon the world in the early 1990s and in some countries isn't yet old enough to drive. We tend to consider the Web as young ... Read story »

SLOW Internet speed across Asia - Aug 18, 2009

Blogs Following the hit of Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan last week, certain Asian countries have been experiencing very slow Internet speeds even as we go into the second week after the disaster.  ... Read story »

Thailand tackles online censorship again - Nov 9, 2009

Blogs Prathet Thai, or land of the free, is what Thailand is called in the Thai language. Land of the free (and home of the brave) also defines the US. As the ... Read story »

A mifi little wonder - Sep 23, 2009

Blogs Over the last few week, I have been testing the M1 Mifi 2353 which was sent to me a few days before its launch. It's the latest Wi-Fi wireless router which ... Read story »

Green Dam Youth Escort: A summary of the Holey Harlot - Jun 19, 2009

Blogs Not since the release of Windows Vista has such a poorly designed, expensively developed, non-mandatory but strongly encouraged, scenically sounding piece of software created such a buzz as has Green Dam ... Read story »

Would you give your child a private personal computer? - Jul 30, 2009

Blogs When Geekonomics first wrote about how he had helped give a child a computer, my immediate thought was concern. What's wrong with giving the Encyclopedia Brittanica these days? I assume the ... Read story »

The idiot Malaysian politician's guide to cyberspace - Aug 18, 2009

Blogs A primer for the average Malaysian politician, who, being digitally clueless, needs Cliff-Notes on this all-important, election-deciding, king-making media, how they can make the most use of it and how they ... Read story »

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