US issues demands to China on ‘Great Firewall’
Ratcheting up its increasingly stern line with Beijing on trade issues, Washington has added concerns about China’s infamous Great Firewall saying that it may be hurting US companies’ access to Chinese...
View ArticleGoogle: Government take down requests on the up, even in Western democracies
Government requests to take down online content are on the rise, even in Western democracies not usually associated with censorship. That’s according Google’s latest Transparency Report, which...
View ArticleObama won, Wolverine fired, Google Watch coming: #StuffToKnow this week
Well, the US government shut down (because of old men acting like children who didn’t get the toys they wanted), and after 16 day of chaos, nothing happened. South African banks were robbed via Mc...
View ArticleTencent throws a bone to international users with 10TB worth of free storage
You might recall Chinese internet giant Tencent giving its domestic users 10TB worth of free storage back in August. It was a big deal at the time, not least because it dwarfed the 1TB of free cloud...
View ArticleAmazon Prime Air: just another pipe dream or technological breakthrough?
On 1 December, Jeff Bezos revealed on CBS’ 60 Minutes that Amazon is working on the creation of a new drone delivery system. The new service, labelled Amazon Prime Air, will enable Amazon to offer...
View ArticleEdward Snowden reportedly mulling return to US, but only if the law changes
Former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden says a return to the US would be the best possible solution for him and the country as a whole, but getting to that point won’t be easy. In an...
View ArticleT-Mobile giving free data for Pokemon Go, but is this a good thing?
US mobile network T-Mobile has also decided to jump on the Pokemon bandwagon. The network has announced that from tomorrow 19 July, it’ll be zero-rating Pokemon Go mobile data usage for a full year...
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