The internet, said UK developer Mark James the other day, is a serious business. Web developers need to be serious business people. There is serious money to be made.
But all seriousness aside, there’s always room for some kittens.
James spent a weekend creating Placekitten as a joke. It’s a simple tool for developers who need …
As our software gets updates, so does that old-fashioned gum-flappin’ language we use to describe our techy lives. To that end, Oxford Dictionaries Online has expanded their database, giving us definitions of terms from clickjacking to bloggable.
First, a snippet of the tech-world words coming online:
bandwidth (secondary …
So much for those late night gaming sessions in Vietnam. The country is placing a ban on all online gaming activity from 10 PM to 8 AM in order to protect the youth from wasting their brains, according to the Daily News.
“Provincial departments of information and communication will inspect on-line games activities nationwide and deal …
In honor of the Year of the Rabbit, Google Chrome announced its newest beta release today, which features a new version of the V8 JavaScript engine that’s proven to be 66 percent faster than the version in Chrome 9.
In addition to JavaScript that’s as fast as a bunny rabbit and GPU-accelerated video, Chrome 10 also simplifies a user’s …
Its future may be uncertain, but when it comes to watching television online, users still prefer Hulu, it seems. According to ComScore’s new Digital Year in Review report, Hulu’s audience watched 19.4 million minutes of video, more than twice as much as the combined total of video streamed from the websites of ABC, CBS, the CW, Fox and …
Reports have now verified that Eqypt has cut off access to the internet amid political protests. Renesys, an internet monitoring firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, calls the situation "an action unprecedented in Internet history," according to a company blog post.
The development of an internet "kill switch" that our own
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Since Tuesday’s “day of rage” swelled protests across Egypt, seven people have been killed, thousands have clashed with police and the country is in the middle of an Internet blackout.
(More on TIME: Did Egypt Really “Shut Off” The Internet?)
We heard of a social network ban nation wide earlier this week, as sites like …
The Verizon iPhone will be here before you know it and though the hardware behind the AT&T iPhone and the Verizon iPhone is nearly identical, the service plans offered by AT&T and Verizon differ enough to warrant a closer look. The voice plans offered by the two companies are the same, but the required data plans and optional text …
Google Docs, the convenient tool for reading and writing documents and creating spreadsheets online, announced this week that it’s adding video sharing and playback to its ever-growing list of capabilities.
This means that videos can now be embedded and played in documents themselves. Videos can be up to 1GB in size, and the file …
According to a new survey by the PEW Center for the People and the Press, 44 percent of Americans get their news from the Internet with a little less than one-fifth of those questioned admitting that it is their main source. The web has become the second most popular place for world and local information, up 17 points from 2007. This …
A study released by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future shows that parents are valuing the Internet just as much as a form of entertainment as the TV. In the old days, doing something bad would get the TV taken away for a week; now, the results show more parents are taking away the Internet. So much for trying to reason that …
A group of British scientists and logistics planners have proposed a program called Foodtubes, an underground network of tunnels controlled by logistics software which could send food and household goods from one location to another. The dubbed “transport Internet” works similar to the way we surf the Web, and can become a more efficient …
