Mozilla Foundation announced it’s plan to release FireFox 3.5 beta, later this week, Firefox 3.5 promises some new features largely based on HTML 5 — the latest update to the core language of the World Wide Web. Mozilla says Firefox 3.5 will deliver noticeably improved performance, security and a better user experience overall. More specific [...]
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The end for GeoCities?
Yahoo Inc. announced recently that it will be shutting down it’s GeoCities Free Web Hosting services this year. Yahoo acquired GeoCities for $3 billion in 1999. GeoCities no longer accept new accounts, and recommended it’s users to Yahoo Paid hosting services. This is a meesage from GeoCities Website.
The Pirate Bay Verdict
The men behind Pirate Bay were found guilty on being accessories to violating the copyright law by a Swedish Court. They were sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $3.6 million dollars. Unlike the case of Napster, The Pirate bay doesn’t actually host the copyrighted files, it simply allows users to posts [...]
YouTube just pass the 100 million US viewers a month
According to comScore, YouTube hit a new monthly high in January, topping 100 million as it dominated the online video arena. The overall number of videos watched online in the US in January climbed 4 percent from the previous month to 14.8 billion, with YouTube viewing accounting for 91 percent of that growth, comScore reported [...]
Google Sinks Atlantis Discovery Buzz
Last week, a British man announced he’d found the lost city of Atlantis using Google Ocean — the latest add-on to Google Earth that features 3D bathymetry, which lets you explore the ocean floor. The supposed ‘Atlantis’ image is about 620 miles off the northwestern coast of Africa and south of Portugal. It shows a [...]
With Four More Months to Make the Switch, Over 400 TV Stations Are All Digital
More than 400 television stations have stopped broadcasting in old-fashioned analog form, according to the Federal Communications Commission, months before the rescheduled transition to digital TV. Turning off the analog signal allows stations that are short of cash to save money, but it also means a loss of service for viewers who have not yet [...]