Sam Varghese
Sam Varghese has been writing for iTWire since 2006, a year after the sitecame into existence. For nearly a decade thereafter, he wrote mostly about free and open source software, based on his own use of this genre of software. Since May 2016, he has been writing across many areas of technology. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years in India (Indian Express and Deccan Herald), the UAE (Khaleej Times) and Australia (Daily Commercial News (now defunct) and The Age). His personal blog is titled Irregular Expression.
NBN: speed is good, but support is vital
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has done users of the national broadband network a great favour by keeping a tab on the speeds that are supplied against those claimed, and publishing statistics periodically to ensure companies do not cheat.
Mozilla to sell VPN subscriptions through Firefox
Mozilla will start selling subscriptions to a VPN service, targeting a select set of users, from tomorrow onwards in the US.
Microsoft hard at work trying to resurrect GitHub after it falls over
Microsoft-owned GitHub fell over on Sunday US time, with a network partition and subsequent database failure rendering the code repository and hosting service unusable.
