A dentist pulled out a hypodermic to give his patient a painkiller. ‘No way! No needles! I hate needles,’ the patient said. So the dentist started to hook up the nitrous oxide and once again the bloke objected. ‘I can’t do the gas thing. The thought of having the gas mask on is suffocating me!’ The dentist then asked the patient if he had any objection to taking a pill. ‘No problem,’ the bloke said. ‘I’m fine with...

We all know what P2P is. Most of us do use it, even if we won’t admit it. The lazy ones among us would perhaps pick a few DVDs off the fella who brings the albums to the mamak stall. But then, he too downloaded it and burnt it on a DVD for your convenience. But now, Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob wants to make sure that if you do use P2P (or torrents as he says specifically), you would be...

The introduction of the iPad has taken the world by storm, judging by the clamour of fan boi proportions to own, touch or even glimpse a stranger using one. With that much interest, it would not take a prophet to say that the iPad would soon be the device du jour of the trendy set and wannabe geeks. And it did become the device to be seen with, or the device to own. Even if the tech savvy crowd, the real geeks, panned it to high heaven....

I was with a couple of friends, both longtime journalists, and we were discussing the impact of the internet on political awareness and activism last Friday. In the end, we agreed that the internet is a tool, which enhances any inbuilt predilections of political awareness or activism. However, the speed in which the internet does this is much faster than any legacy medium, barring voice communications or SMS/MMS. Even so, both SMS and MMS...

Twitter is a micro-blogging service, which limits your entries to 140 characters of unstructured text. It allows you to follow people you like, and to have others follow you. With its 140 character limit, it would not be too far fetched to say that it is the SMS of the internet, with closed user groups thrown in. You could send a tweet, or a mass SMS using the same analogy, to everyone who follows you or you could target your tweets to...