All the stories tagged with: Web
YouTube Co-Founder Teases Launch Of New Video Service
03/11/2013, When Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion a little over six years ago, the company knew it was a service they absolutely needed in their suite of products. That’s why when you hear one of the original co-founders of YouTube [...]
Amazon’s Plans For “.Book” Top Level Domain Met With Resistance From Publishers
03/11/2013, Considering that Amazon has been known for being a place to buy books, digital or physical, it is not surprising that they have been thinking about registered top level domains such as “.book”, “.author”, and “.read”. In fact to a [...]
Fraunhofer IIS: Surround Sound with Video Streaming on Android
03/08/2013, [CeBIT 2013] I saw a great number of technology demos at CeBIT, and the Fraunhofer booth is always a good place to find interesting demos that provide a good insight of what is really going on inside our most beloved [...]
Woman Discovers Cheating Fiance While Browsing Street View On Yandex Maps
03/08/2013, Google Maps’ Street View is a pretty handy way to get a better idea of the location, identify landmarks and so on, but as it turns out, it can apparently be used to catch cheating partners as well. Marina Voinova, [...]
Facebook Improves News Feed Design
03/07/2013, Facebook is rolling out an updated news feed design that puts even more emphasis on photos and friends. Secondary information (“posted x hrs ago”) fades in the background but is still available if you really want to see it. I [...]
KFC Offering Free Wi-Fi At All U.K. Restaurants
03/06/2013, KFC may not seem like a big deal here in the U.S., but they’re pretty popular all over the world, especially in Japan where Colonel Sanders has been a pop culture icon for years. The popular fried-chicken chain will be [...]
Internet Proxy Weddings On The Rise
03/06/2013, My wife and I will soon be celebrating our one-year wedding anniversary next month, and one of the last things we both would have considered would be to get hitched through a webcam, or better known as a proxy wedding. [...]
Facebook News Feed Update May Introduce Multiple Categories
03/06/2013, Facebook is preparing to unveil changes it’s made to its News Feed tomorrow, but it looks like we may have caught a glimpse of what the company is planning to showcase tomorrow in a story we published last week. Facebook [...]
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 [...]
EU Slaps Microsoft With $730 Million Fine Over Internet Explorer
03/06/2013, Many years ago there was a huge deal made over Microsoft and their browser, Internet Explorer, in which there were complaints that by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, it would harm competition between web browsers and affect consumer choice. Now [...]
Microsoft Ending Scroogled TV Campaign
03/04/2013, Microsoft’s Scroogled media campaign started this past November as the company did its best to educate consumers of how Google conducts its Google Shopping business, specifically how they sell the ranking of products rather than offering legitimate search engine results. [...]
The Harlem Shake Goes Political In Egypt
03/04/2013, The Harlem Shake, for those unfamiliar, is a video where one person starts dancing in a room full of people minding their own business, before it cuts to the break where the entire room can be seen shaking and gyrating [...]
CloudFlare Is Down, Taking Thousands Of Websites With It
03/03/2013, Web accelerator CloudFlare is having network-wide DNS issues, and it looks like all sites that use it as a front-end proxy are down as a result. The company has confirmed the outage with a Tweet that says: “we’re experencing a [...]
