As a work-from-home writer, the lure of the Internet is all too familiar. All day long, Twitter beckons, my news feed filled with delightful distractions from the blog post at hand.
Fortunately, a new study from the University of Copenhagen suggests that wasting time on the Internet may actually be beneficial.
Tax prep? There’s an app for that. Several, actually.
The folks at Intuit recently gave me a demo of their TurboTax apps: SnapTax for iPhone and Android lets you take a photo of your W2 form and fills in all the necessary blanks automatically, while TurboTax for iPad features everything you’d find with the web-based version of …
“Gmail Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime. They may change, break or disappear at any time.”
That’s the ominous message that greets you when you delve into the deepest, darkest corners of Gmail. Beware!
However, some of Gmail’s experimental features can and do make your e-mail …
Google employees just get all of the perks. Rock climbing walls, gourmet meals, and their Internet connection is apparently so fast I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a divine upload to a higher being.
Three employees from the Google Chrome did a Q&A on Reddit, and one user asked, curiously, how fast their connection was in Silicon …
They say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. Or at least that’s what they used to say.
Well before I came to my first SXSW Interactive Festival this year, I knew that most high-tech innovation was happening in the pacific time zone. As the world has flocked to The Social Network over the past year, that line of …
By the time I have children, they’ll be born with an internet chip in the head, constantly surfing the web. Looks like that future isn’t too far off: according to a report released, 80 percent of kids under the age of five use the internet weekly.
Non-profit organizations Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Sesame Workshop conducted …
Many panels at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive have revolved around the introduction of something new – new technologies, applications, visions or theories. But one of the most intriguing panels I’ve attended thus far was also one of the least declarative. It was held Saturday afternoon, was dubbed “Time Traveling: …
Data caps on your internet? It was only a matter of time.
Starting May 2, AT&T will start putting caps on people who surf the internet just a tad bit too much, according to DSLReports.
AT&T DSL users will be capped at 150GB, while AT&T U-verse users will get a slightly higher allowance at 250GB.
Users will probably want to be …
There was something of a collective shrug at the Austin Convention Center Friday afternoon, following the much-anticipated presentation by Google’s Marissa Mayer. But that said, there was irony to be found in the lackluster response, serving as yet further proof of just how dominant the company has become, in providing and filtering …
Joel Stein’s cover piece for TIME this week is about online data mining—how marketing companies know so much about you just by simply tracking your web surfing habits. It’s an interesting and/or terrifying read, depending upon your disposition. Whatever the case, there are several quick and easy steps you can take to prevent your …
For sale: gorgeous node in a well-connected area. Excellent up/down bandwidth, with average download speed of 20 megabits per second, and 99.6% uptime over the last 12 months. Yours for just $300,000. Comes with free family home.
No wait, stop and think for a moment: Does broadband speed matter to you so much you’d consider it during …
A rose by any other name may smell just as sweet, but if that name is an Internet top-level domain name, world governments may beg to differ.
The “.com” at the end of TIME.com is known as a top-level domain—or TLD—and you may be aware of others, including .net, .org, .edu, and even .ly for Libya. While there are over a hundred …
