China's next-generation Internet
An article in New Scientist covers a journal report on the state of upcoming upgrades to China's national Internet infrastructure.
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Branded clothing and India's online retailers
If you are one of those people who has paid through the nose for trendy, branded, American clothing via an online Indian retailer, then you might be interested in this article on Reuters. According to the report, it's highly likely that you have either bought old stock, unlicensed stock, or plain ol' counterfeit dregs.
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India's IPv6 transition
The Economic Times has a brief blurb on the status of the IPv6 transition in India.
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Anonymous Phase 2: RTI Crowdsourcing
After the low key response to the June 9 protests, Anonymous India has labelled it only "Phase 1" of their plans and have announced "Phase 2". The second phase has been dubbed "Operation RTI" and appears to be an elaborate recce to unearth information related to Internet censorship in the country. The plan is to get "citizens of India" to file RTI applications pertaining to any communications between government officials and companies such as Google and Facebook.
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.. and you thought we had it bad: Chinese censorship
In light of the recent blocking of websites in India and the cries of "CENSORSHIP!" all across Twitter, spare a thought for our Chinese neighbours who have long been suffering beneath the cudgels of the Great Firewall of China.
You Telecom looking to expand
You Telecom, formerly known as Iqara, is reportedly planning to expand its broadband business.
You Telecom, a Citigroup-owned broadband service provider, plans to spend Rs 300 crore for launching services in 14 new cities across the country by the end of 2008.
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Government policy set to kill small and medium ISPs
The Indian government's new ISP policy has done away with category C licenses for ISPs, according to the Times of India, because they are a burden to the regulator, pose a potential national security threat, and are a risk to consumers.
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MTNL + AOL portal
The co-branded portal, mtnl.aol.in will offer a compelling combination of AOL products: easy to use e-mail service, instant messenger, content straddling across channels like Cricket, Bollywood, Hollywood, music including integrated videos in many channels, in addition to MTNL utilities like services and product offerings, games, tariff plans and customer care, an AOL statement said.
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The 'hall of shame' of Indian websites
LUG - Delhi maintains a list (dubbed the Hall of Shame) of government and other (deemed) critical websites that force users to use proprietary technology (usually Internet explorer) to access their pages.
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Protecting your privacy and defeating censorship using proxies
After the public exhibition of gross incompetence by the Indian government and ISPs alike, it is in everybody's interest to know how to bypass these ridiculous blanket bans.
The following is a general guide that will ideally allow you to visit said blocked sites. If you have any questions or comments, please use the fora.
It is recommended that you use Firefox to follow any steps outlined below. However, it should be reasonably straightforward to adapt them to other browsers as well.
What is a proxy?
A proxy (server) to put it simply, acts like a middleman and retrieves web pages on your behalf. For e.g. since the GOI and incompetent techs at ISPs all over India have decided to block blogs like mumbaihelp on blogspot, instead of asking your browser to retrieve the mumbaihelp page, you can ask your browser to ask the middleman (proxy) to get it for you. So, for all essential purposes, you are only accessing the middleman (who has not been censored) and not mumbaihelp.
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