Just released last week, Google’s browser plug-in Chrome Frame is already causing a stir. The plug- in allows IE6, IE7 and IE8 users to utilize Chrome browser’s WebKit rendering engine, as well as its high-performance V8 JavaScript engine. Google originally pitched it as a way to instantly improve the performance of the always unsatisfactory Internet [...]
No matter how many times people collect information and research micropayments, trying to pop the bubble of faith around them as a cure for what ails the newspaper industry, they consistently maintain some level of support.
Newspapers have spent the past century with a monopoly on tools of mass publishing as well as the means of [...]
Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are all preparing to eventually collect “performance fees” from e-tailers like Apple for traditional music downloads and the music included in downloads of television episodes and movies. This group even wants compensation for iTunes’ 30-second song samples.
iTunes customers aren’t even over the recent and first ever download price hikes, but [...]
On Wednesday, Google took a major step in accelerating its efforts to scan tens of millions of books and periodicals. ReCAPTCHA, a well-known provider of CAPTCHA technology, is used to prevent spammers from using computers to automatically register for online services. By requiring users to type randomly chosen words that appear as images, the “Completely [...]
A few years back, a whole host of commercial and community schemes were underway which promised to blanket towns in free - or very cheap - wireless connectivity. But now, it’s extremely rare to find wi-fi that is both easily accessible as well as affordable.
It’s far more likely to use the internet while on the [...]
Tuesday, the continuing opposition to Google Books settlement took a turn, as civil rights groups told a federal court that they believe the plan to digitize millions of books will threaten readers’ privacy. These groups include The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic of the University [...]
Services such as YourHackerz.com are active and plentiful. With cleverly friendly names like “piratecrackers.com” and “hackmail.net,” they boast of having little trouble hacking into Web-based e-mail systems such as AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook and Hotmail, and they advertise openly.  All the services claim that they’ll e-mail a screenshot of the target’s in-box or even send an e-mail from [...]
After amassing a collection of more than 20,000 books over years of proud knowledge sharing, officials at the pristine campus of Cushing Academy near Boston have decided that the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library. The academy’s administrators have decided to discard all their books and have given away half of what stocked their [...]
A national safety group working with the U.S. government called The Safe America Foundation, announced that text messaging, social networking sites, andTwitter might be able to help families stay in touch in the wake of a disaster. In yesterday’s statement, the matter of Twitter’s dependability is discussed, but in emergency situations when phone lines and other traditional communication lines are [...]
