General

5 of the most useful websites on the Internet

March 20, 2011

Are you new to the Internet? Do you live in a remote, far flung country and want to feel what it’s like to be wired (or as is more likely these days, wireless)? Or are you simply bored out of your mind reading about what your friends are having for lunch on Facebook and Twitter? [...]

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Industry

Learning to unlearn? Try unteching instead.

March 19, 2011
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Have you ever seen a multicolored bundle of LAN cables on your floor and wished they’d just disappear? We’ve all had those moments of wire-aversion; atrocious tangles of wires (often found near a home router) can make you go mad. In recent years wireless devices have helped us get rid of the many wires in our homes, [...]

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Social Media

Kevin Rose resigns. Could this be the end of Digg?

March 18, 2011

The validation every Redditor had been waiting for may  have finally come. Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, has left that other social bookmarking website, claims Michael Arrington of Techcrunch. The decline and fall of Digg is something that has been talked about ever since the website started accomodating uncomfortable levels of intrusive advertisers. Allegations [...]

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Gadgets

iPad 2′s maximum operating altitude is just 10,000 feet

March 18, 2011

The iPad 2 specifications page on Apple’s website offers a very interesting piece of information: The maximum operating altitude of the device is just 10,000 feet. The citation instantly reminds one of the significantly greater maximum cruising altitudes announced on most commercial flights. Apparently, this specification is causing quite a bit of confusion among many [...]

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Industry

Google introduces answer snippets in search results

March 18, 2011
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A good proportion of worldwide searches comprise questions about mundane everyday facts, something not lost on the world’s search engines. Surfers using search engine Google have recently noticed knowledge snippts or fact suggestions cropping up at the top of the search engine results page (SERPs). Generated in response to queries for facts, the snippets offer [...]

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Industry

Internet Explorer 9 arrives

March 17, 2011

The latest version of Microsoft’s famed Web browser, Internet Explorer 9, was released to much fanfare on Monday. The browser was downloaded over 2 million times in the first twenty four hours after its release, boasted Redmond. Microsoft has high hopes behind its client software, and with good reason. The past half decade has seen [...]

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Social Media

Google brushes up Blogger

March 16, 2011
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The dawn of blogging was one of the most iconic changes to occur on the Internet landscape at the turn of the century. Pioneered by such services as LiveJournal and Open Diary, the blog (short for web log) became a viable communication tool and business model in its own right. Arguably, for half a decade, [...]

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Social Media

Twitter now serves a billion tweets per week

March 16, 2011

This week saw a major revelation about the volume of social networking juggernaut Twitter’s user activity. The website is now serving nearly a billion tweets every week, according to co-founder Jack Dorsey. Nearly three years ago in March 2009, we reported that Twitter’s monthly traffic was 9.3 million visitors.  Since its founding in 2006, it [...]

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Industry

Online news beats print newspapers

March 15, 2011

Newspapers are in decline the world over. Today, more people are turning to the Internet for news than are reading newspapers. That’s the message we get from research undertaken by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism that concluded at the end of 2010. The State of the Media report assesses mobile readership for local [...]

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General

Tokyo dims the lights

March 14, 2011

In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami to hit Japan, the people of the Land of the Rising Sun have come together to help out in every way they can. Demonstrating superior civil sense and an undeniable sense of patriotism and belonging, the people of Japan’s capital city Tokyo actually participated in a [...]

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