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Google May Pull Out of China

Google issued a shock announcement yesterday that it may end censoring the results of its Google.cn search engine after a series of hacking attacks that it says was aimed at human rights activists.

“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.“

Read their full blog post here

WordPress New Release – 2.9.1 Out Now

WordPress 2.9.1 is now available – see info page here – but is only a minor release dealing with minor bug fixes.  Upgrading is only required if any of these issues affect you.  No AKIS package installations are affected so we won’t be upgrading sites for this minor upgrade at this time. Get in touch if you have any questions about this new release – or see the WordPress 2.9 info page.

Firefox 3.5 takes #1 spot from IE7

Firefox 3.5 has become the most popular browser, finally wresting the lead away from industry behemoth Internet Explorer 7 according to StatCounter’s latest figures.  [read the full story at techradar.com]

WordPress New Release – 2.9 Out Now

WordPress 2.9 is now available and we will be upgrading all WordPress based client sites during the course of today.  Get in touch if you have any questions about this new release – or see the WordPress 2.9 info page.

UK Internet Problems: LINX router failure = SLOW!

Yesterday the London Internet Exchange, where the vast majority of the UK Internet traffic is routed through, experienced severe networking difficulties. This was causing significant packetloss and intermittant outages.  We just wanted to clarify that this was only affecting routes from clients who go to us via LINX ISP peering, not from our servers to client. But, it does mean if your ISP was routing you via LINX you may not have been able to access your sites, this was completely outwith our control andwas in no way an AKIS issue/problem!

Please refer to the following media report for surrounding information:
The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/10/linx_failure/

UPDATE: This problem is still having a knock on effect and causing slooowwww internet for many ISPs today/tonight on the 10th.

UPDATE 2: 11th Dec, Looks like the LINX problem is still affecting many of the UK ISPs with many forum posters still reporting speed issues – refer also this news article.