Journalists who landed for Olympics were surprised to know that most of the popular websites were not working inside China. That even included Wikipedia. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) came under severe criticism for allowing Chinese officials to hold on to their crazy censorship.

International human rights activists have raised their voices on this issue. They have mentioned that censorship of internet during Olympics is a violation of basic human rights and have requested for an uncensored internet access.

Though the restriction to Chinese citizens has been imposed for years, it has recently become an international point of discussion due to the Olympics and the journalists. Initially BOCOG, Chinese Olympic Organizers and the International Olympic Committee IOC stated that they would lift restrictions. However, it turned out to be no good as it was just partial.

The Chinese government has removed few sites from its ban and has blocked sites categorized as “against national interest” or “seditious”. Journalists still have difficulty accessing their company sites or their high secure servers. China has broken its promise of providing an unconditional internet access to sports journalists.

It would sometimes be a pain to call up Tata Indicom customer care to come home and sort out whats gone wrong with your Internet connection. You can expect them at your doorsteps every morning till you make the payment but do not dream after that.

Remember that since this is a wireless connection, there are very low chances of the signal getting interrupted from the Tata Indicom WiMax station. Nine out of ten the issue would be due to the computer or wireless receiver at your end. How do we check if the signal is being received and the signal has good strength? Please follow the steps below to check it yourself.

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Things to know before installing Tata Indicom WiMax Internet Connection.

WiMax from Tata Indicom [VSNL] is gaining popularity as its wireless and has good reception. However, there are also issues from Tata Indicom Wi-Max users that signal fluctuates often and that the signal is dead many times a month. If you have an issue connecting to the internet 80 percent reason could be that there is low signal or the signal is null. To check this out you would have to call the customer support and this can be a pain.
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Miles and miles of cables lie in the sea connecting continents and passing through various seas and oceans. It is a great task having these cables laid in the bottom of the sea. These same cables are used to also transfer telecommunications.

Early sea cables during the 19th century were made of iron and later replaced with steel wire. These cables were wrapped in India rubber and had multi-stranded copper wire at the core.

However, all the modern cables laid in the sea are made of fibre optic technology and are usually 69mm in diameter and are pretty heavy. Around 10Kg per metter. These carry digital payloads.

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Though Internet has become faster during recent years when compared to half a decade ago, it’s still not fast enough to watch a movie online or play a game online.

Boffins from Bangor University in Wales, has devised a method to increase the broadband speed by over hundred times the present rate. This technology if proved successful can download around fifteen full-length movies within a minute.

Dr Jianming Tang,  from the Bangor University believes that this technology would revolutionize the internet industry completely making high-definition movies, computer games and video-conferencing much faster and reliable.

This device would look like a external modem which would have its input from the broadband and the output to a computer. The technology would be compatible with any existing fiber optic technology.

Internet has been disrupted in India, Egypt and Gulf Arab countries. This is due to a ship accidently cutting down on the international undersea cable network on Wednesday near Alexandria, in Egypt’s north coast.

It is estimated that it could take several days to restore the network and as much as 60% of the Internet users in India could be affected.

Though the extent of impact cannot be determined on the IT industry, Egypt’s telecom ministry said 70% of the country’s Internet network is down.

Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers’ Association of India, informed Reuters that “There has been a 50 to 60% cut in bandwidth.” Read More »