Internet & networking news
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French ISP has an ad-blocking router
Free, a French ISP, has rolled out an update to its routers that turns ad blocking on by default.
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Cisco to sell Linksys
A Bloomberg report has revealed that the networking giant has hired Barclay's to offload the consumer router division. 1
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New Yahoo Mail for web, Win 8, iPhone and Android
Thoroughly embracing the corporate purple, it looks like Yahoo Mail won't look like a relic of the '90s soon. Now, to just get to the rest of the company... 2
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Who controls the internet? The debate is live and clicking
And so the battle for the future of the internet rages on. The focus this time is not on WikiLeaks, cybercrime treaties or privacy controls, but the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). 1
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Free Google Apps is going away
Google no longer offers the free version of its Google Apps product, but existing members can keep what they've got. 1
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UN summit votes to support internet eavesdropping
Deep packet inspection standard adopted, despite Germany's warning that it will "empower" censorship. Other uses: detecting BitTorrent transfers and identifying "copyright protected audio content".
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NBN Co: 'we are not set up to be a broadcaster'
NBN Co has been approached to embed media multicast functions, but the network provider is not interested.
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Global roaming 3G data launches from Globalgig
Globalgig has launched a mobile-broadband data device that lets you roam Australia, the UK and the US all at one simple rate. Travellers rejoice!
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Qantas pulls plug on in-flight Wi-Fi
Qantas has decided not to go ahead with in-flight Wi-Fi following a nine-month trial of the service, citing disappointing uptake of online access by its passengers on the selected test routes. 1
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Asus and Netgear working on Google TV products
They haven't been announced yet, but both companies have Google-powered set-top boxes on the way.
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