In an act of net activism the Australian Classification Board’s website was hacked last Thursday in protest of the Australia ISP level internet filtering scheme. The hackers infiltrated the site and inserted text into the introductory text; displaying the following message: This site contains information about the boards that have the right to CONTROL YOUR [...]

A lot of us took for granted the access to computers and games when we had when we were growing up. It’s hard for me to imagine school holidays without my SNES and Diddy Kong. Well for many kids growing up in developing countries computer games let alone computers are a whole virtual world away. [...]

It’s coming and industry pundits are already calling it the most significant development in Search since Google. It’s called Wolfram Alpha and it’s an answer engine; and represents the first real developments towards the sematic web. Unlike Google, a search engine which searches and finds information in the database of knowledge people have published on [...]

In February Facebook updated their terms of Service so that users could no longer delete their data when they left the service. Data ownership online is a massive issue and not really one to tackle in a blog post but it is an important area that seems to be developing too slowly and one I [...]

So while housing prices in the real world are falling, realestate on the internet is still booming. Well known Toy Store Toys R Us has just bought the domain name toys.com for $5.1 million in a neck and neck bidding war with National A-1. National A-1 is a company that buys premium domains and re [...]