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...

The big tech (and privacy !) news of yesterday was the exposure of a second super administrator access to Telekom Malaysia’s Unifi (HSBB) service. First discovered by rizvanrp, and posted to lowyatt.net, it exposes the existence of a second level of access, and how to trivially guess the username and password used to access it. As expected, there was an outcry from Unifi users (all 1,700 of them) about this possible invasion of...

The internet is a wonderful thing, it has actually made things literally come a lot closer and done wonders for the publishing and content world. No more are content producers beholden to publishers and TV networks or movie studios. They’re now able to close that gap to the end consumer, just as the ordinary joe can now also produce content and compete with traditional content producers. This has allowed individual and...