Go ahead and watch that funny cat video your co-worker sent. Chances are you’ll both be more productive afterward.
A new study found that browsing the Internet refreshes tired workers, more so than checking e-mail, sending text messages or making phone calls. Don J.Q. Chen and Vivien K.G Lim, of the National University of Singapore, …
Late Saturday, somewhere in Libya, a blinking light on a wireless router began to pulsate. It was the first time that most of Libya’s citizens were being connected to the rest of the world since Internet access had been killed in March. Over the weekend, data connections began to trickle in and out as the rebels gained on Tripoli.
Far …
Which state can claim the fastest average internet speeds? Pando Networks tracked downloads from 4 million people across the U.S. between January and June of this year, and reported the findings late last month.
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In general, Pando found the following:
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Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
There is a debate happening in the industry about whether or not we are heading toward a future where all computing takes place in the browser or …
Happy (belated) birthday, World Wide Web! In the above cartoon, Odd Todd looks back on the infamous day back in August of 1991 that started it all.
Ah, the lowly 404 page. Always unwanted, sometimes humorous, but most often a dumpy-looking page like this one:
And as far as funny and creative 404 pages go, this one may very well be the most elaborate in the history of the internet:
Nosh.me‘s 404 page is actually an embedded video featuring two soldiers of fortune (or …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
I’ve often told people who ask me about the future of technology that as we get smarter devices, smarter software, and smarter cloud services we …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
One of the many aspects of the technology industry I have to study as an industry analyst is the macro-economic trends. With that in mind, I have …
There are more things connected to the internet than there are people on the planet. Think about that for a second; that’s not just smart devices or computers, it’s everything that’s connected to the internet.
The tipping point came, according to Dave Evans at Cisco, in 2008, and it’ll only keep going.
By 2020, 50 billion “things” …
It may not have seemed like a month that changed everything, but if speculation by Flurry Analytics proves to be correct, this month will be the first in history where Americans spent more time using mobile apps than the full-on internet via web browsers.
“Our analysis shows that, for the first time ever, daily time spent in mobile …
Hardcore online gamer? Spending hours on end plugged into stuff like World of Warcraft daily? Pay close attention then. While none of what I’m about to relay is definitive, it does have the air of something serious, cautious and scientific. Call it pre-sobering, then.
Researchers in China and the United States recently published a …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the use of new “top-level domains,” which we’ll start seeing next year. So instead of using .com, .net or .org at the end of websites, businesses (and well-heeled individuals) will be able to create their own “.whatever” suffixes.
If I had $185,000 and wanted …
