Reuters reports that Syrian authorities have ordered Internet cafe users to reveal their identity by getting their names and identification cards of their clients as wella s the time they come and leave. A Syrian monitoring group, Syrian Media Centre, said that this is another censorship measure from the government.
The records are to be presented regularly to the authorities, who targeted bloggers and Internet writers in recent months as part of a renewed campaign against dissent.
Originally posted on March 14, 2008 @ 6:12 am
The future of mobile broadband has arrived — in Korea
On the theme of internet access, Korea’s WiMax-like system provides faster, cheaper wireless broadband
Article reads as follows, “The next time you’re on the road and either can’t find a Wi-Fi hot spot or it seems to take forever to download an important file via 3G, imagine you’re in Seoul, South Korea. That’s because Seoul’s wireless WiBro network is nirvana for traveling professionals.
WiBro is a branded version of the same 802.16e-2005 WiMax standard that is coming to the U.S. In Korea, it delivers data three times faster than 3G networks, with typical download speeds as high as 6Mbit/sec.” – article continues at this link – http://broadbandmobile.blogspot.com/2008/04/future-of-mobile-broadband-has-arrived.html