Report: Facebook Beats Google For Web's Most-Visited Site March 16, 2010
It's official -- playing Farmville and tagging friends in photos (and consequently untagging embarrassing photos of yourself from your friends' photos) has become more popular than actually trying to find things on the internet.
IT Pros: Macs Cost Less to Manage Than PCs March 16, 2010
The Enterprise Desktop Alliance recently surveyed 260 IT administrators in the US to find out which computing environment is cheaper to manage: PCs or Macs.
Google appears to drop censorship in China March 16, 2010
Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing's censorship rules.
FCC Tasks ISPs To Put The Pedal To The Metal At 100Mb March 16, 2010
We're talking about a policy that would task ISPs with putting 100Mbps speeds in place at 100 million American homes within the next decade. Broadband providers are concerned with the cost associated with the FCC's proposal, but should they be? According to ABI Research, global broadband service revenue is expected to exceed $210 billion in 2014.
Inside the New Digg: An Interview with CEO Jay Adelson March 16, 2010
At last night’s “Bigg Digg Shindigg” in Austin, TX, Digg CEO Jay Adelson briefly revealed plans for a massive overhaul of the social news site. This morning, I had an opportunity to chat with Adelson in-depth about the new Digg and what users, publishers, and the web as a whole should expect.
Dead iPad battery? Apple not replacing, just sends new iPad! March 16, 2010
Check out the company's opening line: "If your iPad requires service due to the battery's diminished ability to hold an electrical charge, Apple will replace your iPad for a service fee." Hear that? REPLACE. Better back up your iPad data before sending off into the land of no return!
FCC to Release Ambitious, But Pragmatic, National Broadband March 16, 2010
The FCC is set to share the nation's first official broadband plan with Congress Tuesday -- a sort of Declaration of the Internet that seeks to ensure that a fast broadband connection is just as much an unalienable right as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Google's Biggest Blunder March 16, 2010
Google is not a company known for making big mistakes, but not too long ago, it stumbled into the worst strategic blunder in its history.
Google pays Web pioneer to bash Apple March 16, 2010
Tim Bray isn’t as well-known as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, but the guy has had a leading role in defining the Internet. His name tops the list of editors on the official specs for the Internet’s XML language, the basic building block for all Web pages.
Texting From Beyond The Grave March 15, 2010
Generally a headstone conveys two very basic facts about the person interred below it - their name plus the two most important dates of their life. Thanks to some new technology, headstones can now convey much more that: a photo and note written by the deceased, delivered right to your phone.
File-Sharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain March 15, 2010
After early calls to shut down a Spanish file-sharing site were dismissed, music group SGAE pinned its hopes on success at the full trial. But, the outcome for them was nothing short of a disaster. The judge declared that both non-commercial file-sharing link sites and non-profit use of P2P networks are legal in Spain.
40% of Blackberry users willing to trade in for an iPhone March 15, 2010
BlackBerry users tended to have fierce brand loyalty, but the iPhone is apparently changing that. And, while more BlackBerry users are planning to switch to an iPhone, Android-based devices are starting to garner more attention as well.
Social network site Ning's CEO Gina Bianchini stepping down March 15, 2010
Chairman Marc Andreeseen announced today that CEO Gina Bianchini is stepping down after 5 years at the helm of Ning, which boasts of supporting 2.3 million user-created social networks. Bianchini will become an entrepreneur in residence with Andreessen's VC firm
15 Noteworthy Websites That Changed the Internet March 15, 2010
There are millions of websites out there. Many of them are unique. But the individual impact of any particular site on the overall Internet is generally negligible, if there's any impact at all. Not so with the fifteen sites here. These sites changed the Internet, mostly for good, in substantial ways.
Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source March 15, 2010
Most any journalism professor, upon mention of Wikipedia, will immediately launch into a rant about how the massively collaborative online encyclopedia can't be trusted. It can, you see, be edited and altered by absolutely anyone at any moment. But how much less trustworthy is the site for breaking news than the plethora of blogs and social?
25 years of .com domain names March 15, 2010
On March 15, 1985, a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name. Although Symbolics.com didn't spark an instant gold rush, the event planted the first seed of a transformation...
Privacy is Not Dead, Just Evolving March 15, 2010
It's a brave new world. Unfortunately--continuing the literary allusion--Big Brother is watching. As technology makes more information more accessible, it also threatens to expose information that is not intended to be shared. Privacy is a concept that is caught in the middle of the struggle.
SteP To MASHABLE - tech and science: GOOGLE COMES WITH 2 NEW March 15, 2010
Google responds to user feedback and quietens down Buzz inbox noise.WHILE conversation in Google Buzz, the very post appears in your Gmail inbox, but Gmail users have recently responded negatively by saying that it makes the inbox 'noisy'.
