Tag: Internet

October 16, 2015

Facebook and its virtual reality subsidiary Oculus are betting on the new 360-degree video format, which Facebook introduced into your News Feed last month. Whether you’re on desktop or mobile, if you’re on Facebook and see one of these new […]

October 2, 2015

Dell is preparing a refresh of their XPS 12 laptop-tablet convertible, and thanks to some leaked photos and specifications from WinFuture, we’re getting a good look at what this entirely new product will be. While the previous XPS 12 featured […]

September 18, 2015

Google’s second-generation Chromecast has been a while in the making, but now there appears to be some fresh leaks on what we can expect to see from it — and when. The new Chromecast, which almost looks like a party […]

September 18, 2015

Everybody and their dog is talking about Facebook and Instagram ads, but with Pinterest finally sharing its monthly active user numbers Wednesday — the service claims 100 million — I expect that advertising eyeballs will suddenly be looking a lot […]

September 17, 2015

LG is feeling the heat of rising competition, which is forcing it to cut the prices of its high-end smartphones, according to a report out of the company’s home country of South Korea. The report cites data released by South […]

September 15, 2015

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to launch 4,000 satellites into low Earth orbit. The satellites will eventually be used to blanket much of the globe with wireless Internet connectivity. As The Independent points […]

September 7, 2015

I never think about my router until there’s been a terrible mistake. And then it’s all I can think about. Once my internet goes down, I have to shove my television out of the way, sift through a tangle of […]

September 4, 2015

Google has released Chrome 45 for desktop, which is now available to download on PC, Mac, and Linux. The biggest change in this update is improved RAM management, which reduces the memory usage of idle tabs in the background. Chrome […]

September 2, 2015

Hate ads on Hulu? There’s finally a solution… but it’ll cost you Hulu announced on Wednesday that it would be introducing a new subscription tier that will remove advertising from its platform The ad-free version will cost $11.99 per month, […]

September 1, 2015

Mozilla’s mission is at risk. That, in turn, could put the entire Web at risk. Mozilla, the foundation behind the Firefox Web browser, may declare in its mission statement that “the Internet is a global public resource that must remain […]

August 21, 2015

A company called Gadget Lab has produced a very interesting infographic that reveals which mobile browsers are used the most in various countries. For example, in the U.S. it might not be surprising to learn that Safari is responsible for […]

August 12, 2015

The announcement of Google’s new holding company, Alphabet, initially led to near-universal bafflement among the tech cognoscenti: why would Google, an industry leader, create such upheaval? The most immediate benefit may simply be that CEO Larry Page, who is stepping […]

August 11, 2015

Facebook users may want to think twice before putting a phone number on their profile. The social network encourages anybody who uploads pictures from their mobile to add their number too. But if they do, anybody can find that person’s […]

August 7, 2015

Heads up, Firefox users — Mozilla is urging you to update your browser post-haste, after a rogue advertisement on a Russian news site was found to be exploiting a vulnerability that compromised Firefox users’ local files. “The vulnerability comes from […]

August 7, 2015

The average U.S. Internet connection speed continues to lag behind that of many other developed nations, according to the latest State of the Internet report from CDN and cloud service provider Akamai. In the first quarter of 2015, Akamai said, […]

August 5, 2015

Bringing some old fashioned engineering discipline to the emerging Internet of Things, IBM has updated its design tools to allow IoT component builders to keep track of their work though a widely used technique called product line engineering (PLE). “Everyone […]

August 4, 2015

YouTube just started rolling out a small design update that makes the control panel on its videos transparent. The panel still functions like YouTube’s old black bar, but the controls are slightly larger and they now float on top of […]

July 31, 2015

Microsoft has altered Windows 10 so that users have to explicitly set a default app for applications like mail, calendar, or web browsers. The change means the setup installers for Chrome and Firefox can no longer set themselves as the […]

July 29, 2015

July 29, 2018. I have decided to meet an old colleague of mine today. We’re going at the new eco-café. It’s the latest trend – coffee shops where you can have your coffee in this green capsules with grass under […]

July 29, 2015

China has in the past banned sites such as Facebook and Twitter and filtered online content using the ‘Great Firewall’. Now its government is reportedly trying to redesign the internet so it can police parts of it on its own […]