With feds cracking down on internet piracy at the same time as internet groups try to quash lawsuits against file sharers, it’s beginning to look as if both sides are taking the legality of file sharing more seriously.
As the Electronic Frontier Foundation went to court to argue that the US Copyright Group’s mass lawsuits against over …
Got way too much money burning a hole in your pocket? Sex.com is back on the auctioning block, officially being brokered by domain giant Sedo. Originally registered in 1994, the Sex.com domain name was put up for sale back in March of this year and fetched a million bucks just place a bid.
The company that owns the domain name, Escom, …
Come on Internet world, was Google’s photo background really worth that groupthink meltdown that went on this morning?
Did it seem like a bit of Bing rip-off? Sure. But Google has always been experimental with its homepage, not everything’s going to work, right? Just get through the day and everything will be back to normal. Yeah. …
Google has ramped up the speed with which it’s able to return new web content with “a new web indexing system called Caffeine,” according to a recent company blog post.
Google is promising “50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index,” which would basically re-scour the web continuously, a process …
Hear me out, hear me out. I’m not just calling for cheap smartphones and free service because I’m cheap (I am cheap). Rather, I think a company like, oh, let’s use Google as an example, could provide a viable alternative to expensive phones and even more expensive cell phone plans.
Google makes money by selling targeted …
Sony’s going the Chumby route (remember Chumby?) with its Dash Personal Internet Viewer. At $200 it’s a tad on the expensive side, but you get a big 7-inch 800×480 touch screen and over 1,000 apps to choose from. Oh and speaking of those apps, they’re actually Chumby apps. UPDATE: While the device uses Chumby apps, it’s also got …
The home of the future will be insanely connected–everything talking to everything else. And while I don’t really care if my toaster is able to network with my coffee maker just yet, one of the things that intrigues me the most is the concept of a refrigerator that would be able to sense volume levels of certain containers and, when …
A new website is betting you’re willing to dish about your co-worker’s job performance just as you would a Netflix movie or an Amazon purchase. The site, dubbed Unvarnished, came out of private beta testing last week and aims to create an open forum to rate professionals in the workplace — for better or for worse.
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This is “They Should Make It.” It’ll appear here every Tuesday and will contain some really mind-bending ideas for products and services that don’t yet exist—but should! You may not agree with my ideas, and that’s okay. It’s not like we’re taking a road trip together or anything.
This week’s topic was a dead simple …
Dot-com, you’ve grown up so fast! Seems like only yesterday you were just an innocent top-level domain running around the kitchen in your diapers. We knew you’d turn into something special, though, no doubt about it.
In recognition of your 25th birthday, we’d like to take a look back at all you’ve accomplished. This is your …
