Unprecedented traffic quelled doubts and set records

The Olympics finally ended on Sunday and with it an impressive display of athletics that showcased the talents of athletes like America’s Michael Phelps and Jamaica’s Usain Bolt. While the Olympics and technology are not something everyone thinks of as mixing, the two are surprisingly intertwined. From Michael [...]

Partnering with other companies, Google hopes to keep free WiFi alive in one California town

The communications network EarthLink was for a time seen as a messiah of sorts for the free wireless movement. After spending millions to build several free networks in cities across the country, its efforts collapsed, and it went from messiah [...]

A deal between Verizon Wireless and Google is expected in the next few weeks

Verizon Wireless and Google are close to a deal in which Google will become the official search engine for all Verizon-powered cell phones. The deal will give Google up to 68 million new users who will see the Google search engine [...]

Three major U.S. To obtain quotes Xohm this spring

Many ardent mobile phone and notebook users are still waiting for high-speed wireless connections to reach their cities. Many left the use of mobile data plans that are on par with dial connections to the early 1990 instead of being comparable to current speeds of [...]

Yahoo buying Maven to bolster online advertising video

Despite the dark outlook for the veteran Web property, Yahoo announced today that the company had purchased video online Maven Networks. Information Week reports that Maven currently serves ads over 30 media including accompanying some of the largest websites on the Internet, such as Fox News, CBS [...]

This week Google launched its video to complement the text ads

Google is jumping video ads in the band. Whereas traditional ads show slower growth, video ads are a hot topic. This week is the first week of Google video ad deployment, so that users can begin to notice those who appear during their [...]

An unknown Internet service provider released an entire email domain to data from the FBI

An Internet service provider whose name has not been given to the Federal Bureau of Investigation access to an entire domain of e-mail records, according to a classified report written by the Inspector General’s Office. The document made its [...]

Google plans to make a move to bring legitimate music free to China

Google will announce its plans for a joint venture with Top100.cn which offers users free downloads of music licensed in China. The collaboration between the two companies use online advertising to generate revenue, according to Reuters.
Top 100 was launched using the [...]

Court issues an ex parte order to defuse WikiLeaks.org domain, the defendants only a few hours’ notice by e-mail

WikiLeaks, “uncensorable” site that specializes in the distribution of sensitive document leaks and analysis, it lost control of its main WikiLeaks.org domain after a quick legal attack of Bank Julius Baer.
According to a report WikiLeaks [...]

The new beta version of Firefox 3.0 is drawing brilliant comments, emerges by some estimates to be a “killer IE”

With months of Mozilla to fulfil its promise of the release of Firefox 3.0 to the public in the first half of 2008, the company has just introduced its third candidate of the beta version [...]