As expensive cable providers lose more and more ground to free services like YouTube, and cheap services like NetFlix, it was inevitable that they would try to find a way to stop Google TV before it pushes Viacom or Comcast out of the television racket for good. The time has come: the National Cab[...]
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February 1st, 2011 - 6:53 PM § in Internet
Google Art Project Brings The Museum To Your Screen
Announced today, the Google Art Project takes the experience of visiting a fine art museum and makes it virtual, available through the Internet. Although this is not the first attempt to transfer the museum to the computer desktop — many organizations have experimented with this ever since u[...]
January 28th, 2011 - 12:18 PM § in Internet
How fast is your connection?
Netflix, the largest consumer of video bandwidth on the internet, released some interesting information on how fast they are able to stream to the average customer of a given ISP. While you shouldn’t take this as what speed you should be getting, it is an interesting statistic. Your throughput[...]
January 27th, 2011 - 6:03 PM § in Internet
Rumors: Microsoft Heating Up Competition for Internet TV
As the Internet has increased in bandwidth and compatibility over the years, it has become utilized more and more for all kinds of content delivery. One of the latest and greatest iterations of this is the mainstream acceptance of IPTV, allowing On-Demand television and movies streaming straight f[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 1:02 AM § in Internet
LibreOffice Reaches Version 3.3 With Big Changes
This is the first official release of the Office suite that began as a fork of the OpenOffice.org project. New features include the ability save documents in Microsoft’s DOCx format (compatible with the latest version of Microsoft Office) and an improved graphical user interface. LibreOffice[...]
January 21st, 2011 - 6:19 PM § in Internet
Google Launches Groupon Clone
After their bid to acquire Groupon was rejected by the company, dot com giant Google is now soon to roll out their own version of the deal-of-the-day website. Named “Google Offers,” this service gives clients a new way to reach customers, sending them a daily email with special offers.[...]
January 20th, 2011 - 12:57 AM § in Internet
Google Voice to Include Number Porting
Google recently announced that a number porting system will be added to their “Google Voice” service. Although currently still in a testing phase, this is sure to open up the service to new users. Number porting allows a user to utilize their existing phone number (from another source) f[...]
January 16th, 2011 - 1:07 AM § in Internet
World ipv6 day – a commentary
This past week, several news outlets reported on something called “World ipv6 day“. The gist of this event is to increase awareness of the impending exhaustion of all the world’s ipv4 address space, and to test how well some of the most popular sites online run on v6 for a 24 hou[...]