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FCC Plans To Make In-Flight Wi-Fi Faster, More Reliable

05/10/2013, The FCC has been making life much easier for those of us who need to scratch their Internet itch while they fly the friendly skies as they eased rules to allow for quicker in-flight Internet deployment late last year. Now it [...]

Syria’s Internet Has Now Been Restored After 19+ Hours Of Downtime

05/08/2013, Yesterday, we reported on Syria’s Internet experiencing some serious outages according to Google data as well as other global Internet companies. It looks as though things may be getting back to some kind of normalcy in regards to the country’s Internet [...]

Syria And The Internet Divorces

05/07/2013, Syria is not exactly the shining example of being a stable country at this point in time, not to mention the fact that the Syrian electronic army recently hacked 11 Twitter accounts belonging to the Guardian. Having said that, it [...]

Internet Sales Tax Passes In Senate, Moves On To The House

05/07/2013, If you’re a regular Internet shopper, you were probably paying close attention to the news yesterday as the U.S. Senate was in the process of voting on a bill deemed the “Internet Sales Tax” bill. Unexpectedly, the Senate passed the [...]

CenturyLink To Provide Gigabit Internet In Omaha

05/01/2013, There’s no doubt that gigabit internet is definitely the future, and the FCC Chairman certainly likes it, as he wants to see gigabit internet in all 50 U.S. states by 2015. Google has been working extensively in this arena, it [...]

AT&T Launching 1Gbps Network In Austin To Compete With Google Fiber

04/09/2013, Austin, Texas will soon be getting a dose of Google Fiber as it has been selected as the first city to receive the service outside of Kansas City in the middle of 2014. But it looks like there’s about to [...]

Chinese Man Calls Police On Himself To Help Fight Internet Addiction

04/01/2013, We’re sure the man who has been spending the last six years at an Internet cafe can be considered a person who is addicted to not only the Internet, but games itself as he spends the majority of his waking [...]

Russian Government Begins To Selectively Censor Their Internet

04/01/2013, We’ve heard of countries such as China who are heavily censoring the internet, and it seems that Russia has joined in as well. According to a report by The New York Times, the Russian government has recently begun enforcing a [...]

Chinese Gamer Spends Six Years At Internet Cafe

03/29/2013, We’ve published a number of stories of gamers around the world who had their lives cut too short after spending way too many hours at local Internet cafes. But you rarely hear similar stories of gamers practically living at an Internet [...]

Internet Slows Down After History’s Biggest Cyber Attack

03/27/2013, Is it possible to experience a “traffic jam” on the anecdotal information superhighway? The simple answer, yes! I noticed it around 9 hours ago, but did not give too much thought into it, thinking that my local ISP’s underwater cable [...]

Internet Pioneers Pick $1.5 Million Prize

03/19/2013, The only reason you can read this on your computer or mobile device is because of the Internet, where five engineers were the ones behind the Internet. Good to know that after all of these years, these engineers were given [...]

FreedomPop Sets To Upset ISPs By Offering Free Broadband Internet

03/06/2013, As important as having a reliable home Internet connection is, we know there are people out there who simply can’t afford an additional $50 a month so they could constantly watch cat videos on their Facebook wall. There aren’t many [...]

Woman Allows Internet To Name Her Baby For $5,000

02/28/2013, Before a child is born, parents have a tough decision coming up with a name for their upcoming bundle of joy. Thousands of questions pop into their heads as they try to ultimately pick a name that would fit their [...]

Europe Spends 3.5M Euros To Fight Network Latency

02/14/2013, When it comes to networking, a lot of people focus on the bandwidth side of the issue, but latency is sometime a much bigger problem (especially on wireless networks). Network latency is that the that it takes an information packet [...]
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