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Donald Trump’s latest Iran tweet gains 50k retweets in five hours

US President Donald Trump needed little over five hours to amass over 137 000 likes and more than 50 000 retweets on his latest…

It’s a blue world: Facebook’s empire grows in latest map of social networks

Facebook may or may not be dead to teenagers. If it is, it could certainly be an issue in the future but right now,…

Iran to give all citizens state-controlled email addresses

Iran has taken another step in its bid for complete control over its citizens’ online activities. Following plans for an “Iran-ternet“, selective filtering of…

Meeker files: emerging markets own web growth, mobile on top

People around the globe are still coming online on the for the first time in their millions. That much of that growth comes from…

Iran’s government starts censoring Google search and Gmail

In the wake of the anti-Islam YouTube video that has led to widespread protests in the Muslim world, Iran has announced that it intends…

Iran bans international email providers like Gmail and Yahoo! Mail

In another example of the censorship that lead to the country being declared the biggest enemy of internet freedom, the Iranian government is reportedly…

‘Iran-ternet’ reportedly set to roll out fully by August

Iran plans to completely block its citizens from accessing the web by August. By then it hopes to restrict access to its own sanitised,…

300 000 Iranian IP addresses stolen

Almost 300 000 IP addresses originating from Iran applied for access to Google via an illegally obtained digital certificate. The certificate was issued by…

A new age in cyber warfare — Anonymous, LulzSec and Stuxnet

Growing up in the nineties, television and film made me believe that hackers could do anything. I pictured an emaciated Russian teenager typing on…

Iran’s plan for a second web

Pop quiz: As an internet user, what is the world’s worst country to live in? China with its Great Firewall comes to mind. Or…

US push for smash through the great firewall of China

The United States plans to pump millions of dollars into new technology to break through internet censorship overseas amid a heightened crackdown on dissent…

‘Operation Iran’ — Anonymous does not ‘forgive’

Anonymous, the free-form leaderless internet hacker group has moved in the last year from its history of being “prankster” group with actions such as…

Watch out internet it’s the ‘Iran-ternet’!

Though the protests failed to overthrow the regime, it was in Iran that the true might of the internet as a tool for freedom…

Google software unblocked for Iranian citizens but not govt

Since 2009, Google has been blocked from providing software downloads to Iran. However, Google announced on its blog that some of the US government’s…

Coming to a phone near you: Six examples of how social media took the starring role in the news

Until Twitter came along and blew the lid off news coverage of the Iranian elections last year, many of us were scratching our heads…

Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales to create Facebook competitor?

At a gathering of about 100 of some of South Africa’s top geeks on Tuesday night, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales revealed what he said…

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