Tag archive: justathought
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...
Capitalism and social services
Sir, Lawrence Summers and Samuel Brittan, in the “Capitalism in Crisis” series, complement each other in important ways. Prof Summers...
Year of the Dragonet?
Early in 2011 it was revealed that China was going ahead with an experiment to set up an Internet Special...
ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2015
As various free trade negotiations hit the headlines –AFTA, TPP, BTAs, etc – ASEAN seems to be finding a new...
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...
Regulation Wars
The need for regulation arises for 3 reasons: to assign scarce resources; to protect citizens; and to promote public policy....
Phony Patent Wars
Anyone following technology markets cannot have missed the growing use of patent wars to cripple or extort or hamper or...
Wither Media?
The demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World in the UK had nothing directly to do with competition from...
The Death of Telecommunications
The profits warning by KPN (Netherlands) in Apr set off alarm signals. When the CTIA, the wireless telecoms industry association...
The Risk Game
In the latest in an ever growing number of massive cyber security breaches the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and Online...
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...
Japan’s Tragedy
Natural disasters are at one and the same time to be expected and yet shock us to the core when...
IPv6
Finally it happened. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has run out of IPv4 numbers. The world now...
Chinese New Year Resolution
The Wall Street Journal (16 Dec 2010) cited an interesting research paper from the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo...
WikiLeaks and Mirrors
Let’s put WikiLeaks into some sort of perspective. In the UK from the 1960s onwards Private Eye became a satirical...
Net Neutrality
The net neutrality issue has raised its head again, and this time Asia is getting involved in the debate. the...
ICTs Post-recession
As the global economy slowly pulls itself out of the greatest recession since the Second World War, the role of...
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...
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...
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...
Boxed-in
Singapore is the latest to face the problem that is technically referred to as ‘conditional access’, meaning the conditions that...