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In what some people are calling a response to the “Arab Spring” that recently swept across Northern Africa, the extremist regime currently running the impoverished nation of Ethiop...

U.N. Considering Global Internet Tax for U.S.-Based Websites

Should some of the largest online content providers have to pay up in order to continue to reach the global market? The United Nations thinks so, according to some...

Vint Cerf Fears Internet Regulation from the UN

Google's Chief Internet Evangelist and one of the "fathers of the internet," Vint Cerf, s...

IPv6 Goes Live Today: The Future Of The Internet Is Here

After years of preparation and teasing, IPv6 finally goes live today. IPv4 will now begin it's long slow death march across the wasteland of the Internet. In reality, it's a little...

No More Facebook? Women Would Suffer The Most

After spending a little over a week abroad with some less-than-predictable wi-fi connectivity, I kind of missed social media. Sure, I was taking in beautiful architecture and ever...

Most Internet Users Search Web in Multiple Languages

The latest factoid to be pulled out of Greenlight's "...

European Union Caught With Its Hand In The Cookie Jar

Don't you just hate cookies? Not the delicious sweets, but the kind that follow you around on the Web tracking your behavior. It seems that the European Union hates them too hence...

United Nations’ Proposal To Regulate Internet Going Before House This Week

It seems that everybody wants a hand in the massive cookie jar known as the Internet. The latest group that wants some form of control over the Internet is the United Nations. I do...

FCC Chairman Supports Usage-Based Broadband Pricing

You probably remember the early days of the internet's growth and popularity in the 1990s, when more and more people were getting computers with dial-up modems and people were stil...

ICANN Finally Accepting gTLDs Applications Again

It's been a long and arduous road for ICANN since last month when their application system for new generic top-level domains...

Facebook Is Slowly Becoming the Reason to Pay the Internet Bill

Think of all the things that you really don't want to do without, America: cars, indoor plumbing, birth control, pizza delivery, the Biebs. You wouldn't enjoy life all that much wi...

Jon Stewart Has a Laugh at the Internet’s Expense

This Week's On Topic for the Daily Show is "The Internet". Accordingly, they have posted this video, a mash-up of all the recent internet related stories from the last few weeks....

Vietnam Tries To Censor Bloggers

The battle is starting to rage on in Vietnam between the communist government and internet bloggers. The only way for a "Communist Government" to keep control over it's people is t...

The State Of The Internet [InfoGraphic]

Every quarter, Akamai takes a look at global internet connection speeds, attack traffic, network connectivity and more. They take the data from...

No Internet Snooping for Claims, Says Social Security Office

A decree by the Social Security Administration has put the internet off-limits for disability-claims judges when ruling on cases. And by internet, Social Security means The Interne...

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