12 February 2015) The number of Wi-Fi.HK hotspots in Hong Kong has risen to more than 12,000 across the city’s 18 districts, providing convenient and free public WiFi services to the community and visitors. A total of 12 universities and tertiary institutions, plus Ngong Ping 360 have recently joined the scheme. Wi-Fi.HK hotspots are now…
(23 December 2014) The Pao Yue-kong Library has recently launched a fully responsive redesigned homepage that is optimized for browsing on mobile devices of different sizes. Being the first among UGC-funded university libraries in Hong Kong to adopt responsive web design when developing its homepage, Pao Yue-kong Library aims to improve usability and user experience…
(24 November 2014, Geneva) Over three billion people are now online and information and communication technology (ICT) growth remains buoyant in just about every country worldwide, according to ITU’s flagship annual Measuring the Information Society Report. The report is widely recognized as the repository of the world’s most reliable and impartial global data and analysis…
(21 September 2014, New York) Over 50% of the global population will have internet access within three years’ time, with mobile broadband over smartphones and tablets now the fastest growing technology in human history, according to the 2014 edition of the State of Broadband report. Released today in New York at the 10th meeting of…
(11 August 2014) The Australian government is seeking to amend its copyright act to address online copyright infringement. To that purpose, a discussion paper has been issued for public input until 1 September. The Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper released in July, makes a number of proposals to amend the Australian Copyright Act of 1968.…
(31 July 2014) Google has revealed which countries have made the most requests for links to be removed from search results under Europe’s new “right to be forgotten”. The country with the most requests is France. 17,500 requests have been made under French law, involving around 58,000 URLs. Read the story by Rich Trenholm on…
(4 July 2014) Google has agreed to change the way it implements Europe’s new “right to be forgotten” measure after being criticised for being over-zealous in its approach to blocking results in name-based searches. More than 70,000 people have asked Google to delete links to articles about them after a ruling in May by the…
(3 July 2104) Raising concerns about censorship and the freedom of the press, articles from major British news outlets are beginning to be removed from some Google search results after a European court ruling began allowing citizens to request their personal histories to be scrubbed from search engines. The Time website has the story about the…
(26 June 2014) In a widely publicised case last month, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) applied the “right to be forgotten,” requesting that internet search engines, under certain circumstances, delist links to personal data upon request. The court’s decision establishes a contentious balance between the right to privacy and the public’s right to access…
(23 June 2014) The Chicago Public Library has been awarded $400,000 by the Knight Foundation for its initiative to expand internet access throughout the community. The library’s program, called Internet to Go, will test wi-fi hotspot lending in six neighborhood libraries. These libraries will loan devices for three weeks at a time and provide digital…
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