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.
Earlier this week I spoke at the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition. The topic I was asked to address was related to connected TV. More …
A United Nations report released Friday declares Internet access a human right. Presented to the General Assembly, the report by UN Special Rapporteur Frank La Rue states that, “the Internet has become a key means by which individuals can exercise their right to freedom and expression.”
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Here’s how to use a Twitter bookmarklet with the iPad’s Safari web browser. It’s a cool trick that’ll let you quickly and easily tweet an interesting web page out to your followers directly from the browser—no need to try to hunt down a “Tweet This” button or mess around with copying and pasting the page’s link from the address …
In efforts to streamline its promotional guidelines, Facebook is relaxing on a few of its longstanding policies that have prohibited a number of goods from being communicated in contests and sweepstakes, including alarm-y things like “alcohol, dairy, gambling, & gasoline.”
The reason for the change? There are two, actually. First, …
ISP slow down your connection? Dude, stop with the Mad Men and Quentin Tarintino. A report conducted by Sandvine, a networking company, found that Netflix is the single largest source of Internet traffic in North America. Wait – are there even cat videos on Netflix?
Netflix accounts for nearly 30 percent of all downstream traffic, up …
The big news this week: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion. That’s a decent chunk of change and it’s got some Microsoft investors worried. So how will the Redmond giant puts its most expensive purchase ever to good use? Check out the above video for some likely scenarios.
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Back in October, I wrote about the 3G cellular connection that’d been installed at the base of Mount Everest.
I sat back in my chair, stroked my non-existent beard, and wondered “how high people can climb while still getting service.” Surely not to the top!
As it turns out, people can climb all the way to the top and get …
Think you’re safe from malware if your ride’s a Mac? Think again!
Or you know, keep on thinking, because this one looks like another wannabe troublemaker–the latest in a lengthy lineup of not-quite-viral might-have-beens. Not that you shouldn’t take it seriously, of course, because security firm Intego is.
The malware, …
North Korea has a new problem on its hands besides poverty and reported bouts of famine – Kim Jong Il’s new enemy is cellphones.
Wired reports that North Korea now sports 450,000 users on its cell phone network. While those numbers may not seem like much to the rest of the world, it is a 50 percent increase from last year. It’s …
Who wants to pay $200 a month for the fastest residential Internet money can buy? Fearless Comcast customers, that’s who. “Fearless” in the sense that they’d have to be utterly unafraid to throw hundreds of dollars in monthly access fees after speeds they’ll only see in ideal client-server scenarios.
But if you’re feeling intrepid …
Advertising skeptics might be surprised to read this: Online ad revenue topped a record $26 billion in 2010.
This figure represents a 15% increase from 2009, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers and Interactive Advertising Bureau report released Wednesday. The previous record was in 2008, when revenue reached $23.4 …
Old people are harmless. But deep down inside, they just want to take your Internet away from you.
On March 28, Internet users in Georgia and Armenia were plunged into several hours of disconnected darkness. What had befell them? Was a revolution sweeping the country? No, just an elderly Georgian lady.
The 75-year-old woman was …
