Thankfully, the web does not belong to anyone, it is free and open for anyone to give and take as they please (as much as some governments of the world do not like that, even democratic ones). It is the perfect demonstration of the free sharing and exchange of information and ideas. There are probably millions of web servers out there all actively feeding the information that is requested of it. This is known as A Good Thing. › Continue reading…

This is turning into an interesting period in the computing industry. ARM were looking to take over the netbook market by 2012 by providing fast, energy efficient processors for netbook and tablet PCs, but now Apple want to purchase them to screw over other companies. Yes we have the whole capitalism thing but surely this would turn into an near instant monopoly on the ARM RISC processor market? › Continue reading…

The first known instance of mandatory internet censorship in the free Western world and it had to happen in a country that due to bad decisions by previous governments to sell off a public asset containing all of the county’s copper lines and internet infrastructure, already have slow internet access with pathetic usage caps.

But now, the purported government now want to make up for the previous government’s mistakes by reclaiming Telstra (or at least the wholesale side), make a new fibre-based network up to 100Mbps, then slow it down again with an internet filter, which should be called out for what it really is, an internet censorship regime. › Continue reading…

It is a cloudy day today. It has been raining all week with some amazing reports of rainfall in this area. But we do not mind it at all. We have been tortured by clouds building up before and then the storm just goes around us which is very annoying.

Have I started writing for the wrong column? Not at all. Just as there is a build of a clouds waiting for whenever that great triumph of rain will hit, so does the build up for the computing cloud ever increase and we sit wondering when it will burst and we will hit the holy grail of networked computing. › Continue reading…

Welcome to The Technology Column, a weekly column summarising, exploring and discussing the latest news and developments from the tech world oved the last week. To be seen every Friday.