Internet

A bit of off topic news here that we wanted to share with all of you. Did you know that AOL still makes over $500 million a year from its dial-up internet service, and its the year 2013?

Microsoft has announced that the company has helped create Web Platform Docs, a new central hub of web standards for web developers who use HTML5, CSS, and other web standards to build websites. Microsoft, along with Mozilla, Google, Opera, Adobe, and Facebook are a part of...

According to a study in the UK, one in ten people never delete their emails. The study claims that these people are "digital hoarders" who use their email inboxes to record their lives. Are you one of these people?

Anonymous, one of the worlds most famous hacking groups that attacked many government websites and databases, have today said that they have closed down over 40 child pornography sites. This is a strange move for the group, which is usually aiming to illegally bring down...

Opera Software took the hardware acceleration plunge today with the release of its first alpha version of Opera 12, code-named Wahoo. Opera 12 also gets some other features. Among them: • The ability to control a computer's camera. For now, Opera is using the Device API...

August 6th 2011 marks a special day in technology history as it is the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web. On August 6th, 1991, a guy by the name of Tim Berners-Lee mentioned a project for organizing information on a computer network using a web of hyperlinks, calling it the...

Remember that time when you had to move to your new apartment or house and you had no internet connection for a while? It was a horrible experience right? Well, you are not alone. A new study in the UK determined that many internet users are as addicted as cigarette smokers...

AT&T announced today that the company would be throttling the top 5% of its unlimited data users, to ensure proper service capacity to new users. Beginning October 1st, those with unlimited data plans are expected to see reduced speeds once they reach the level of "top 5%...

Mozilla is apparently working on a new project to build an operating system for mobile devices that utilizes applications primarily on the web. The project, called Boot to Gecko (B2G), is Mozilla's attempt to build a "complete, standalone operating system for the open web."...

Google announced today that it has acquired the domain "g.co" and will be using it exclusively for shortened URLs for the company's services. Google hopes to make their URLs easier to pass around via social networks and make it easier for all to remember.