All the stories tagged with internet
Syria shuts off the Internet
06/03/2011, They say that we become better because we learn from our past mistakes, but when you take a look at what is happening throughout the Middle East lately, there has been political unrest against the ruling elite by the common [...]
WebKit browsers catching up to Firefox (updated)
06/03/2011, While Firefox is having trouble surpassing Internet Explorer’s market share in the browser wars, it looks like it has another competitor right at its heels – browsers that run the WebKit web page renderer, in the form of Google [...]
Decaptcha defeats CAPTCHAs
05/23/2011, One of the most annoying technologies ever created by the internet – the CAPTCHA has finally been defeated by an automated solution. Some scientists have come up with a program that is capable of overcoming the verification method used by [...]
Cyber criminals exploit Osama’s death
05/04/2011, While we’ve all been told that Osama has finally been found and killed, a lot of people are unsatisfied with just words and want more proof of his demise. Cyber criminals recognize this and have decided to take exploit this [...]
Movie studio uses BitTorrent to officially distribute film
05/02/2011, If there’s one thing beneficial about the pirate community, it’s the speed of which things can be spread with their services. So when it came to pushing out and promoting a new, relatively unknown movie, a movie production studio called [...]
The World’s Biggest Pac-Man game needs your help
04/14/2011, If you have loads of time on your hands (i.e. you’re done with this week’s work quota in the office), you have access to Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and you love Pac-Man, you’ll be delighted to know that you can [...]
23% of American students say they’re addicted to the internet
04/07/2011, The internet – a curse or a blessing? The worldwide communication service has allowed billions of us to stay updated with all the latest news and events happening all over the world and easily keep in touch with people we [...]
Mozilla announces that add-ons slow down Firefox
04/04/2011, If you’re a Mozilla Firefox user, chances are, you’re unhappy with the program’s start up speed. If you fall under that category, it’s probably because of the add-ons you have. On the official Mozilla blog, it is mentioned that “installing [...]
Kansas to receive ultra high-speed broadband from Google
03/30/2011, “There’s no place like home.” Especially if you’re living in Kansas City, those words will ring truer than for anybody else when Google implements its ultra high-speed broadband next year. Google has officially announced that they will be working with [...]
Firefox 4 Mobile for Android released
03/29/2011, Firefox fans rejoice – the latest version of Firefox Mobile for Android has finally made its transition from Release Candidate to full version. Available as a free download on the Android Market now, Firefox 4 Mobile attempts to bridge the [...]
Paul Baran, Internet founding father, passes on
03/28/2011, Paul Baran, one of the founding fathers of the Internet, has passed on to a better place at the ripe old age of 84, not because someone hacked his Facebook account, but rather unfortunately, due to complications from lung cancer. [...]
Netflix apologizes for downtime
03/24/2011, A few days ago, Netflix’s video streaming went down for a few hours, and while it wasn’t explained what caused the problem (technical issues was the vague response), the service was up and running again at night. However it seems [...]
Firefox 4 surpasses Internet Explorer 9 browser share in one day
03/23/2011, Internet Explorer 9 was released a couple of weeks ago, and Firefox 4 was just released yesterday. But according to StatCounter, the free website analytics company, Firefox 4 has already taken up 1.95% of the world’s browser share, while IE [...]
