Category: ‘Internet’
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has recently made two important rulings. First the phone companies in Canada must pay back about $310 million to urban customers who were overcharged between 2002 and 2006. This will result in rebates between $25 and $90 per customer. Second the CRTC approved expanding broadband internet to 287 rural and remote
Screencap from Das Racist’s Who’s That Brown? via Village Voice Back in the day, music video debuts on channels like Much Music or MTV were a big fucking deal. But then Youtube (and OnSmash) came along and that changed everything—but still, the music video didn’t die. In the past couple of years we’ve been exposed [...]
Corporate USA is doing their damnedest to mess with your Internet for the benefit of their profit structure. You now have another chance to express your displeasure at this prospect.Via PC World today:September 02, 2010 6:18 AM FCC Takes Net Neutralit…
I’ve been studying this research for the past three years, in the course of writing my new book The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember. But my interest in the subject is not just academic. It’s personal. I was inspired to write the book after I realised that [...]
Image via CrunchBase Google is to begin allowing users make free telephone calls through Gmail, its free email service. Users will now be able to make telephone calls to landlines and mobiles from within their Gmail accounts in addition to the already …
Image via CrunchBase All search requests on Yahoo Inc.’s Website are now being processed by Microsoft Corp.’s technology. This partnership is in a bid to present a more formidable challenge to Google’s dominance of the search engine m…
Image via CrunchBase Mozilla’s Firefox 4 Beta 4 comes with two new features that some users might find interesting, namely, Panorama and Sync. The Panorama feature allows users to overview all open tabs and group into various sets via a drag an…
Ask the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, what he sees when he looks in to his crystal ball and he’ll tell you something kind of scary: he sees a future where youth will be able to change their names in order to keep their previous web activities from catching up with them. Think about that [...]
Image via Wikipedia Facebook users are being warned not to fall prey to the ‘dislike’ scam virus. The scam offers users a chance to install “the official dislike button” but instead installs a malicious application that will access their profile page and then post spam messages. The malware also tries to make users complete an [...]
Image by 99 James Kieran Nguyen via Flickr Yahoo has taken over from Virgin as the owners of the UK Internet clip rights in a three-season multi-million pound deal from 2010 to 2013. This means that football fans who want to watch highlights of the Barclays Premier League Football matches that involve teams such as [...]
Image via CrunchBase A study has found that the private browsing modes which are not supposed to log information on many browsers do actually leak out information on where users have visited. However, in many cases the compromise was as a result of additions (add-ons or plug-ins) to the browser or the use of extra [...]
Image via Wikipedia It has been reported that the world’s Internet connection speed is slowly getting faster. The report, which is compiled quarterly by network giant Akamai, was based on analysis of large amounts of Internet traffic around the world. Average Internet Speed by Region South Korea: 12Mbps Hong Kong 9Mbps Japan: 7.8Mbps Romania 6.3Mbps [...]
Careless Driver Convicted After Boasting Online: Issues Surrounding Internet Statement Evidence
2010
August 10
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Image via Wikipedia Google is set to ditch Wave, a program which was meant to reinvent email and transform the way people communicate with each other on the Internet. Google Wave, which was launched last year, combined email, instant messaging, blog publishing and features into a single “wave” that made it possible for users to [...]
Image via Wikipedia Before today, most people only identified the term ‘Wiki’ with Wikipedia. However, more recently Wikileaks has gained tremendous popularity howbeit in controversial circumstances after it released over 90,000 secret records pertaining to incidents and intelligent reports associated with the United States military concerning the war in Afghanistan. So then, what is or [...]
Image via Wikipedia Alexa is undoubtedly one of the most important Web-based ranking tools for small-business owners, advertisers and bloggers all over the world. It is therefore not surprising that a lot of importance is placed on Alexa elements such as the Alexa Toolbar, Webmasters Forum and Alexa search results in general. The Alexa toolbar [...]
Image via Wikipedia Facebook has finally agreed to allow the use of a “panic button” application on its Website. The button is expected to make it easier for children and teenagers to report abuse to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and Facebook. The decision to allow the “panic alarm” system follows [...]
Image by jmtimages [off] via Flickr The race for the first living person to have 10 million friends on Facebook is hotting up as American pop star Lady Gaga overtakes American President Barack Obama on the world’s most popular social networking Website. Lady Gaga had over 9.95 million Facebook friends while Barack Obama is lagging [...]
Image via Wikipedia A controversial online dating Web site for “good-looking people” – BeatifulPeople.com, has gone a step further by launching a sperm and egg bank for the production of “beautiful babies”. The site, which was originally launched in Denmark several years ago, was only made available to international users in 2009. According to the [...]
Image via Wikipedia A drawn out campaign by the likes of ICM Registry to win approval for the creation of a sex domain has finally gone through. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given official approval for the creation of porn Web sites with an exclusive Internet domain that is dedicated [...]
Image via Wikipedia Google has finally integrated Flash multimedia player in its Chrome browser on Linux, Mac and Windows computers. Chrome 5.0.376.86 was released over Google’s Stable channel and can now be downloaded by interested users. The integration of Adobe Systems’ Flash technology is definitely a welcome development as users will no longer have to [...]
Image via Wikipedia Mozilla has finally released the latest version of its Firefox Web browser. After a bit of delay, Firefox 3.6.4 can now be downloaded from the official Mozilla Web site. What’s New? Mozilla estimates that as many as one in three browser crashers occur due to problems with third-party plugins. As a result, [...]
Image via Wikipedia American hip hop/pop group, the Black Eyed Peas, have claimed the first ever music single to be downloaded over one million times in the United Kingdom. The group, which was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1995, made history with their single I Gotta Feeling, originally released in June 2009. I Gotta [...]
Image via Wikipedia Yahoo! is to import personal updates from Facebook in its attempt to revamp its Website and bring two of the most popular sites in the world even closer. As a result, Yahoo! users, who also have Facebook accounts, will now be able to view their Facebook ‘News Feed’ throughout Yahoo’s Website, including [...]
Google is set to make the experience of users a little more interesting than usual as the world’s most popular search engine introduces advanced personalisation by allowing people to add a favourite photo or random image to the background of the Google homepage. A statement from the organisation’s blog states that this is in continuation [...]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has recently made two important rulings. First the phone companies in Canada must pay back about $310 million to urban customers who were overcharged between 2002 and 2006. This will result in rebates between $25 and $90 per customer. Second the CRTC approved expanding broadband internet to 287 rural and remote
Screencap from Das Racist’s Who’s That Brown? via Village Voice Back in the day, music video debuts on channels like Much Music or MTV were a big fucking deal. But then Youtube (and OnSmash) came along and that changed everything—but still, the music video didn’t die. In the past couple of years we’ve been exposed [...]
Corporate USA is doing their damnedest to mess with your Internet for the benefit of their profit structure. You now have another chance to express your displeasure at this prospect.Via PC World today:September 02, 2010 6:18 AM FCC Takes Net Neutralit…
I’ve been studying this research for the past three years, in the course of writing my new book The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember. But my interest in the subject is not just academic. It’s personal. I was inspired to write the book after I realised that [...]
Image via CrunchBase Google is to begin allowing users make free telephone calls through Gmail, its free email service. Users will now be able to make telephone calls to landlines and mobiles from within their Gmail accounts in addition to the already …
Image via CrunchBase All search requests on Yahoo Inc.’s Website are now being processed by Microsoft Corp.’s technology. This partnership is in a bid to present a more formidable challenge to Google’s dominance of the search engine m…
Image via CrunchBase Mozilla’s Firefox 4 Beta 4 comes with two new features that some users might find interesting, namely, Panorama and Sync. The Panorama feature allows users to overview all open tabs and group into various sets via a drag an…
Ask the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, what he sees when he looks in to his crystal ball and he’ll tell you something kind of scary: he sees a future where youth will be able to change their names in order to keep their previous web activities from catching up with them. Think about that [...]
Image via Wikipedia Facebook users are being warned not to fall prey to the ‘dislike’ scam virus. The scam offers users a chance to install “the official dislike button” but instead installs a malicious application that will access their profile page and then post spam messages. The malware also tries to make users complete an [...]
Image by 99 James Kieran Nguyen via Flickr Yahoo has taken over from Virgin as the owners of the UK Internet clip rights in a three-season multi-million pound deal from 2010 to 2013. This means that football fans who want to watch highlights of the Barclays Premier League Football matches that involve teams such as [...]
Image via CrunchBase A study has found that the private browsing modes which are not supposed to log information on many browsers do actually leak out information on where users have visited. However, in many cases the compromise was as a result of additions (add-ons or plug-ins) to the browser or the use of extra [...]
Image via Wikipedia It has been reported that the world’s Internet connection speed is slowly getting faster. The report, which is compiled quarterly by network giant Akamai, was based on analysis of large amounts of Internet traffic around the world. Average Internet Speed by Region South Korea: 12Mbps Hong Kong 9Mbps Japan: 7.8Mbps Romania 6.3Mbps [...]
Careless Driver Convicted After Boasting Online: Issues Surrounding Internet Statement Evidence
News Article: Careless Driver Convicted After Boasting Online, issues surrounding electronic “statement evidence” and the anonymity of the internet.
Image via Wikipedia Google is set to ditch Wave, a program which was meant to reinvent email and transform the way people communicate with each other on the Internet. Google Wave, which was launched last year, combined email, instant messaging, blog publishing and features into a single “wave” that made it possible for users to [...]
Image via Wikipedia Before today, most people only identified the term ‘Wiki’ with Wikipedia. However, more recently Wikileaks has gained tremendous popularity howbeit in controversial circumstances after it released over 90,000 secret records pertaining to incidents and intelligent reports associated with the United States military concerning the war in Afghanistan. So then, what is or [...]
Image via Wikipedia Alexa is undoubtedly one of the most important Web-based ranking tools for small-business owners, advertisers and bloggers all over the world. It is therefore not surprising that a lot of importance is placed on Alexa elements such as the Alexa Toolbar, Webmasters Forum and Alexa search results in general. The Alexa toolbar [...]
Image via Wikipedia Facebook has finally agreed to allow the use of a “panic button” application on its Website. The button is expected to make it easier for children and teenagers to report abuse to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and Facebook. The decision to allow the “panic alarm” system follows [...]
Image by jmtimages [off] via Flickr The race for the first living person to have 10 million friends on Facebook is hotting up as American pop star Lady Gaga overtakes American President Barack Obama on the world’s most popular social networking Website. Lady Gaga had over 9.95 million Facebook friends while Barack Obama is lagging [...]
Image via Wikipedia A controversial online dating Web site for “good-looking people” – BeatifulPeople.com, has gone a step further by launching a sperm and egg bank for the production of “beautiful babies”. The site, which was originally launched in Denmark several years ago, was only made available to international users in 2009. According to the [...]
Image via Wikipedia A drawn out campaign by the likes of ICM Registry to win approval for the creation of a sex domain has finally gone through. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given official approval for the creation of porn Web sites with an exclusive Internet domain that is dedicated [...]
Image via Wikipedia Google has finally integrated Flash multimedia player in its Chrome browser on Linux, Mac and Windows computers. Chrome 5.0.376.86 was released over Google’s Stable channel and can now be downloaded by interested users. The integration of Adobe Systems’ Flash technology is definitely a welcome development as users will no longer have to [...]
Image via Wikipedia Mozilla has finally released the latest version of its Firefox Web browser. After a bit of delay, Firefox 3.6.4 can now be downloaded from the official Mozilla Web site. What’s New? Mozilla estimates that as many as one in three browser crashers occur due to problems with third-party plugins. As a result, [...]
Image via Wikipedia American hip hop/pop group, the Black Eyed Peas, have claimed the first ever music single to be downloaded over one million times in the United Kingdom. The group, which was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1995, made history with their single I Gotta Feeling, originally released in June 2009. I Gotta [...]
Image via Wikipedia Yahoo! is to import personal updates from Facebook in its attempt to revamp its Website and bring two of the most popular sites in the world even closer. As a result, Yahoo! users, who also have Facebook accounts, will now be able to view their Facebook ‘News Feed’ throughout Yahoo’s Website, including [...]
Google is set to make the experience of users a little more interesting than usual as the world’s most popular search engine introduces advanced personalisation by allowing people to add a favourite photo or random image to the background of the Google homepage. A statement from the organisation’s blog states that this is in continuation [...]