Bahrain's death toll grows and its Internet slows
Arbor Networks speculates that Bahrain is censoring its Internet as the strife torn nation's death toll climbs.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge PC operating system. SJVN covers networking, Linux, open source, and operating systems.
Latest Posts
Freedom Box: Freeing the Internet one Server at a time
Eben Moglen, renowned free-software attorney, has proposed a new open-source software-based approach to the Internet to avoid censorship, network restrictions, and centralized control.
MPEG-LA targets Google's VP8 Video Codec
The Web standard video patent wars heats up as MPEG-LA starts to load its patent gun to shoot at Google's VP8 codec.
How to crash the Internet
The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear war, but researchers claim they've found a way to take down the Internet.
Internet TV still isn't ready for prime-time
I like TV on the Internet, but, when push comes to shove, it's not ready to replace conventional cable, satellite and over-the-air TV. Darn it!
A VPN to call your own
You can have a virtual private network of your own even if your company doesn't offer you the service and you've no tech. skills thanks to VPN services.
Don't Panic! It's only the Internet running out of Addresses
It's official. The last five blocks of IPv4 addresses have been distributed to the five Regional Internet Registries and there aren't anymore.
The Egyptian Internet is restored
After its unprecedented take down of the Internet, the Egyptian government has restored the Internet, just in time to reveal pro-Mubarak thugs attacking protesters and journalists.
The Internet's IPv4 Gas Tank is running on empty
The Internet's IPv4 gas tank warning light just came on. It's time to pull over to the IPv6 service station.
Without broadband, the Internet in Egypt
The Egyptian government may have cut its people's broadband connections to the Internet, but the people are finding other ways to connect to the world.