Perhaps in an effort to whip up Apple-esque levels of pre-launch hype, Microsoft has announced that it will hold the global launch of Internet Explorer 9 at South by South West next week: Monday 14th, at 9pm Pacific time.
The first IE9 beta was released in September last year; a Release Candidate version (sort of halfway between a …
Want to get to the bottom of who sent you that anonymous email? Concordia University professor Benjamin Fung and his team devised a strategy to find out who the author of that unsigned note is, according to Gizmag.
Using patterns found within the email, such as typos, spellings and other idiosyncrasies, scientists can find a style …
With new versions scheduled to be released for these two popular web browsers, many of us are rethinking where our loyalties lie. Should we go with the Google Chrome (Beta) or Mozilla Firefox 4.0? Is it worth the upgrade, or is it time to try something new? Here’s a list of the new and upgraded features to make your decision …
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No wait, stop and think for a moment: Does broadband speed matter to you so much you’d consider it during …
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Flash vs. HTML5. HTML5 vs. Flash. Whatever your take on the respective merits of the two high-profile technologies for creating splashy Web content, you can’t deny that the rivalry between Adobe’s venerable Flash and the assortment of evolving open-source …
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 …
Last week, 330 fresh-from-college players, just under 1,000 coaches, executives and scouts and over 700 credentialed media members flooded Indianapolis for the NFL’s annual scouting combine. It is the closest thing that professional football has to a convention; even a late-night trip to the flagship Steak ‘n Shake downtown yields an …
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Jean Grey was reading minds before thinking this was even cool. [via Buzzfeed]
Somewhere out there a fully grown man in a backwards baseball cap is snickering and high fiving himself.
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Microsoft isn’t one to be left too far behind, tacking daily deals onto its Bing search product. Bing Deals for the desktop and mobile gives thousands of unique offers spanning 14,000 cities and towns in the U.S.
Being a search engine, the new Deals section aggregates offers from top providers, including Groupon, Living Social and …
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 …
Data. Google wants it, and is good at getting it.
And that’s fine and dandy when the data they need is already online, because they can send the Googlebot scurrying along to index everything it finds. But what about the data that isn’t online?
Google’s cameras-on-cars collected data for Google Maps, but even they can’t drive …
Buying shoes over the web is rather like running your first marathon: painful.
The problem with buying shoes (or any kind of clothing) online is that you can’t be certain that they will fit.
The result is a lot of trial-and-error, and millions of dollars spent every year shipping returned goods (and their replacements) between …
