We all suffer from it: when bandwidth is sucked up by those pesky filesharers and people watching broadband TV. And those who want to use the net for predominantly text-based browsing get frustrated, knowing that their pages should load almost i...
Infotech: first "halal" search engine
In what is being billed as a world first, a Dutch-based company has launched a search engine that allows access only to those sites approved as being "halal."
Internet: UK Gov to prosecute parents of file sharers; force "Human Dam"
The UK's Peter Mandelson says that parents and other internet account holders must pay for illegal downloads of copyright material. But, in a move typical of the Labour party's pandering to vested interests and potentially large supporters, the...
Internet: South East Asia's daily grind
Working by internet in South East Asia has been a very weird experience in the past few days. The internet seems to suffer, every so often, from a momentary lapse of reason.
Internet: What is Malaysia's "internet filter" for?
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has confirmed that it is looking into monitoring technology for the internet. But what it's for is the subject of considerable debate.
In the world of internet megadeals, a little over USD100 million isn't much. Yet it might turn out to be one of Google's best buys.
Internet: Yahoo! goes wrong
Search engine Yahoo! went badly wrong this morning as search page results...
Infotech: was Bing a stalking horse?
Here's a radical idea: fail to build a search engine that people like, fail to buy one that's a highly effective number two and fail to disrupt i...
Internet: Codex Sinaiticus (almost) available to all
The oldest Christian Bible has been collected from the four sites around the world where it has been kept for more than 150 years. Almost 2,000 y...
Internet: Microsoft's Google Killer. They hope.
Did they take out the "L" from "bling," or decide that US sitcom Friends is so ubiquitous that the ridiculous surname of the...
