Blocking the internet – sign of the times or back to the future?
The Singapore Government made an astonishing announcement earlier this week that all computers used officially by public servants in Singapore would be cut off from the Internet from May next year. The...
View ArticleInternet ruling could hit telco’s Yahoo pursuit and ad revenues
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court decision upholding government rules that would impose new restrictions on how internet providers collect user data could disadvantage Verizon Communications...
View ArticleChina appoints new internet regulator to exert ‘tight grip’
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday appointed a new head of its powerful internet regulator, a man who has publicly vowed to maintain the ruling Communist Party’s tight grip over cyberspace. The...
View ArticlePhilippines’ ramshackle internet service making life a misery
MANILA (Reuters) – Patrolling downtown Manila in his new Toyota, Uber driver Daniel Canezal is grumpy. It’s not from the heat, grime or traffic of the capital’s clogged streets – it’s the Philippines’...
View ArticleEU changes on how telcos can access internet could stoke tensions
Telecoms companies will face new rules on how they can access internet networks under a change to EU law that could stoke tensions between large, former monopolies and smaller operators. The European...
View ArticleMajor tech firms urge government to cede control of internet management
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Major technology companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter are urging Congress to support a plan for the U.S. government to cede control of the internet’s technical...
View ArticleBerners-Lee says we should rebuild the web, it’s too nasty
LONDON (Reuters) – The World Wide Web needs a complete rethink to prevent spying and the spread of “nasty, mean ideas” on social media websites, its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, said on Monday....
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