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When the Internet Went on Strike
On 18 January 2012 the Internet went on strike. Wikipedia and a whole host of Internet sites went dark for...
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Capitalism and social services
Sir, Lawrence Summers and Samuel Brittan, in the “Capitalism in Crisis” series, complement each other in important ways. Prof Summers...
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Year of the Dragonet?
Early in 2011 it was revealed that China was going ahead with an experiment to set up an Internet Special...
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ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2015
As various free trade negotiations hit the headlines –AFTA, TPP, BTAs, etc – ASEAN seems to be finding a new...
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Steve Jobs (1955-2011): A Man of Our Times
Obituaries are best written before death, and in the media they are. They can be written in relative calm and...
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Regulation Wars
The need for regulation arises for 3 reasons: to assign scarce resources; to protect citizens; and to promote public policy....
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Phony Patent Wars
Anyone following technology markets cannot have missed the growing use of patent wars to cripple or extort or hamper or...
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Wither Media?
The demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World in the UK had nothing directly to do with competition from...
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The Death of Telecommunications
The profits warning by KPN (Netherlands) in Apr set off alarm signals. When the CTIA, the wireless telecoms industry association...
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The Risk Game
In the latest in an ever growing number of massive cyber security breaches the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and Online...
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Social Networking and the Grassroots Voice
In 1381 the nobility of England were rocked by the Peasants Revolt. There was no Facebook. In 1848 the ruling...
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Japan’s Tragedy
Natural disasters are at one and the same time to be expected and yet shock us to the core when...
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IPv6
Finally it happened. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has run out of IPv4 numbers. The world now...
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Chinese New Year Resolution
The Wall Street Journal (16 Dec 2010) cited an interesting research paper from the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo...
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WikiLeaks and Mirrors
Let’s put WikiLeaks into some sort of perspective. In the UK from the 1960s onwards Private Eye became a satirical...
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Net Neutrality
The net neutrality issue has raised its head again, and this time Asia is getting involved in the debate. the...
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ICTs Post-recession
As the global economy slowly pulls itself out of the greatest recession since the Second World War, the role of...
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Will Obama Have to Give Up His Blackberry?
Next time President Obama visits the Arab Gulf States, he can leave his Blackberry at home. Because of its unique...
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Content Factories and The New Media Model
Google has recently patented an algorithm that identifies search subjects that are under-represented on the Web. For companies such as...
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The Changing Face of TV
The famous off-hand remark by Lord Thompson of Fleet who in 1960 described his Scottish TV station as a “licence...
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Boxed-in
Singapore is the latest to face the problem that is technically referred to as ‘conditional access’, meaning the conditions that...