Asia’s telecommunications services were partly restored on Thursday after earthquakes off Taiwan cut undersea cables and knocked millions of users offline, but with few alternative routes, access was slow and patchy.
Telephone traffic was back to normal in some parts of Asia but many operators in North Asia struggled to get up to full speed a [...]
From Macs running Windows to Justice Department probes to quad-core processors: 2006 was a busy year.
Vendors in the PC and chip industries moved boldly in 2006, changing the marketplace map through mergers, recalls, layoffs, and lawsuits. Oh, and they launched some impressive new products too, keeping Moore’s Law moving as they built smaller, faster chips [...]
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is set to launch a search engine early next year in partnership with Amazon – it’s intended to be a rival to Google and Yahoo. The Wikiasari project may launch as early as Q1 of 2007, using the same user-generated system as Wikipedia. It will be a for-profit project launched by [...]
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The top wireless trends that will emerge in 2007—cheap smartphones and WiMax—wouldn’t be possible without the two biggest stories of 2006.
The top mobile and wireless trends that will emerge in 2007 wouldn’t be possible without the two [...]
Search giant integrates blogging more closely with its other services.
Google Inc. is offering some users of its Blogger Web site access to a new version of the blog hosting service allowing user-definable templates, tagging of posts, multiple authors, and faster publication of new posts, the company announced on its own blog. It will also integrate [...]
Yeah, we’ve shown you a couple LED faucets before, but this one is different. Check it: rather than just making your water blue, which makes you feel like you’re doing the dishes with antifreeze, it changes color based on the temperature, making you feel like you’re doing the dishes with either antifreeze or Gatorade.
The crunch of Martian soil underfoot and the feel of Martian wind against your cheek could one day be experienced by anyone with an internet connection as a result of a new collaboration between NASA and internet titan Google.
Google has already produced interactive maps of Mars and the Moon by combining their own software with [...]
Five of the eight flaws were rated as critical, according to Firefox team.
Mozilla has released the first update for the Firefox 2.0 browser to fix eight security vulnerabilities.
According to the company, release 2.0.0.1 of Firefox fixes flaws in memory corruption as well as the way the browser executes RSS (really simple syndication), Javascript and CSS (cascading [...]
Opera Introduces Fraud Protection, Powered by GeoTrust and PhishTank: New release expands Opera’s commitment to secure browsing
Oslo, Norway – December 18, 2006
Opera Software today introduced real-time Fraud Protection in its award-winning Web browser. Fraud Protection includes technology from GeoTrust, the leading digital certificate provider, and PhishTank, a collaborative clearing house for data and information about [...]
