Households earning less than RM$3,000 (US$963.39) a month will enjoy free Internet for the first 30 minutes every day, in a new government initiative set to start next month. internet-web

According to The New Straits Times, Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak announced Tuesday, at a Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) staff gathering, that those registered under 1Malaysia People's Aid (BR1M) assistance scheme will be among those to benefit from this move.

Since its creation almost three years ago, Instagram has become one of the most popular social networks with young people. For those who don’t know its concept, it is more of less the same than Twitter’s: instead of relating your daily life with tweets, you post pictures of it. The breakfast you took this morning, your bad mark in maths... Thanks to Instagram, you are now fascinating thousands of people just by photographing your life.

You wanna be like Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus? Then take your smartphone and create an account. You won’t look square that way. But your school’s director and teachers don’t really like the fact that you and your friends spend more time on your phones than listening during classes. They decided then to block Instagram so now, you can’t access it. You’re being bored more and more, and you don’t know what to do with your time at school. Fortunately, there is a technology called "VPN" to save you!

The Iranian regime has arrested one seller of a software tool that is used for evading internet filtering.

The commander of Iranian regime’s cyberpolice in northern province of Zanjan said “Following efforts by the police, the seller was identified, digital documents were collected and the order for arrest was issued.”

India has its priorities wrong, according to Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt.

In the run-up to a speech later this week at The Guardian's Big Tent Activate Summit in New Delhi, India on Thursday, Schmidt has called on the Indian government to regroup and refocus on Web innovation rather than Web surveillance.

Microsoft sent out mails to millions of its users last January, announcing that their own MSN messenger service will be discontinued and they will be replacing messenger with Skype, a messaging and VOIP service that it purchased for $8.5 billion in 2011. Skype is now being used by millions of people worldwide, every month. It is widely appreciated for all its great functions: it allows live chat for free online, with a video function if you have a camera, with a great sound quality.

With its VOIP, Skype provides also a cheaper way to make international calls than traditional wireless providers. Specifically, for international calls.