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Ismail Sabri wants to block you from your ISP

Ismail Sabri wants to block you from your ISP

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...

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Whither the celco, arise the ISP ?

Whither the celco, arise the ISP ?

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...

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Bandwidth Asymmetry

Bandwidth Asymmetry

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...

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