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Brazilian lawmakers have dropped the proposed bill which would have required all foreign internet companies to store data within the country. Ever since the National Security Agency’s activities became public knowledge, Brazil has been sensitive about how its citizens’ data Read More

In the days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was targeted by a spy operation code-named Echelon. The operation involved eavesdropping on the superpower and its allies through voice, fax and data traffic via satellite, microwave and fiber-optic cables. Read More

Have you ever whined about politics on Facebook or Twitter? Thanks to a new law passed in Vietnam this week, that ‘misuse’ of social media may be enough to warrant a fine of over $4,700. First reported by Reuters, Vietnam’s Read More

South African mobile operator MTN has launched the eStreet mobile internet café project, which will give clients 24/7 internet connectivity. This initiative will be particularly focused on rural areas where internet connections are sparse, and where the company is hoping Read More

A brand new advancement in broadband technology may soon be responsible for introducing internet speeds of up to 10Gbps to consumers around the world. A non-profit research and development team called CableLabs are responsible for the announcement of DOCSIS 3.1. Read More

Whenever the question of internet speed pops up, South Korea always ends up enjoying the number one spot by a long margin; but is South Korea’s relationship with the internet really as great as it seems? South Korean internet users Read More

Researchers working for Alcatel-Lucent and BT have managed to destroy previous internet speed records by achieving a fiber optic connection which clocks in at an incredible 1.4TB/s. The experiment was conducted between an existing fiber link in the UK, stretching Read More

Internet censorship in China is already rife, but it’s set to worsen. During an annual government meeting, it was announced that 2014 would see a tightening of Internet censorship, including further control of the media by the ruling Chinese Communist Read More

Customers subscribing to dial-up internet have dropped so low in the UK that Britain’s biggest internet service provider has officially shut the service down. Multinational telecommunications service provider BT has over 6.7 million internet subscribers in the UK, but broadband Read More

In an effort to find solutions for future communications issues, NASA has teamed up with Harvard and TopCoder to announce a series of challenges aimed at creating an internet network capable of transmitting through deep space. TopCoder is the world’s Read More