Some Australian ISPs Going Forward With Internet Filter
Though their press releases from last year have re-surfaced recently in an effort to find out more about their intentions, plans and motives, internet service providers such as Telstra, Optus and iPrimus still seem like they are full steam ahead in forcing the read more...
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Internet Filter still on the table, says Stephen Conroy
Australian Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has recently confirmed reports that the voluntary (for ISPs to implement) internet filter (or censor, which it more closely resembles) is still on the go in being implemented by Telsta, Optus and iPrimus this year and denies any rumour that it is on the backburner.
Stephen Conroy claims that the filter is on its way to being implemented in read more...
The Internet Has Run Out Of Numbers
So it is official (I think), the internet has run out of IP addresses. But the world has not ended, yet. People are still connected, the web is still being browsed, online games are still happening, internet banking continues uninterrupted. What gives? Well, let us look at read more...
New VividWireless Wi-Fi Hotspot Device (ViViFi)
As mentioned on the Whirlpool Broadband Forum here, VividWireless has now made available a new device called the ViViFi which will allow free roaming of your home connected to your VividWireless connection in a fashion similar to read more...
All your cloud are belong to us
If you just want to surf the web and/or use social media, or you just want to use components of the latest and greatest in internet buzz words aka "the cloud", there are several great solutions available for you.
Alright, you got me, yes, this is yet another post about Google's ChromeOS now going mainstream. However, they are not necessarily the greatest nor were they the first. Just how many web-centric systems are there? Here are just a few: read more...
Australias Fixed Broadband Take-Up Is Decreasing
Fixed broadband in Australia is slipping, according to numbers released by the OECD. Communications Minister Stephen CONROY is now using these numbers to give a further push for the planned National Broadband Network. Of course, it would help if he read more...
The Web Belongs to Everyone: Make It Yours.
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. read more...
Internet Censorship in Australia
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. read more...