The difference between heaven and hell [Comic]
Reminds me of my punishment one time I misbehaved as a child -- no Internet.
Tag Archives: Internet
Time Warner says customers don’t want or need super fast gigabit Internet
You don’t want the super fast Internet speeds that services like Google Fiber can provide. Nope. You don’t really need that sort of thing. Only business customers do, for their business applications in their businesses...
You can reach the end of the Internet with just 19 clicks, according to study
Ever heard of six degrees of separation? It is the idea that everyone in the world is only six degrees (steps) away from each other. Professor Albert-László Barabási of Northeastern University has proposed something similar to the...
Your internet slow? Check out the FCC’s study of real data speeds vs advertised speeds by broadband ISPs
The Federal Communications Commission has released its latest report on broadband ISPs in the US. The report contains some very interesting data on the the FCC’s analysis of real data speeds being provided to customers compa...
“Things to do when the Internet is down” [Comic]
The justification behind Google’s browser-based Chrome OS is that out of all the things people do on the computer, most of it is on the Internet. I don’t know about everyone else, but it is true; most (99.999999999%) o...
Cable industry admits that data caps (bandwidth limits) are all about the money, not network congestion
If you didn’t need any more reasons to dislike internet service providers for charging too much for their services, this isn’t going to help very much. Michael Powell, who is the former chairman of the FCC but now pres...
China is now requiring fiber optic, high-speed internet in all new houses that are near it
First off, for you eagle-eyed viewers out there, I’m well aware that the photo is of a Japanese neighborhood — it just seemed to fit. Now that’s out of the way, a new policy in China is now requiring all new resi...
Internet-connected devices in the US outnumber US population
According to a report out of The NPD Group, there are now more devices in the U.S. that are connected to the internet than there are people. U.S. homes have 425 million internet-connected devices, while the human population sits a...
Comcast to charge customers $10 for every 50 GB consumed over monthly limit…
…if you live in Nashville, Tennessee. Comcast, the largest broadband Internet Service Provider in the United States, has been capping the bandwidth of its customers at 250 GB for a while now. Recently, however, Comcast has d...
Minitel, the Internet before the Internet, is dead
Today the Internet rules the world and the happenings all around the world, with its rise being marked by the mid 1990’s. But, further back, during the 1980’s, France had been laughing at the rest of the world thanks t...
Chrome now has 310 million users; “most popular browser” by Google’s count
Around every month or so, some browser analytics service counts up the number of people they saw using each browser and releases measurements of each one’s popularity. At Google I/O this year, Google did the same, counting u...
Kogan charges 6.8% tax to anyone using Internet Explorer 7
Even though Internet Explorer 10 (IE 10) is waiting to be released publicly, a portion of Internet users are still dwelling on the old versions of IE, the most popular being IE 7. Using older versions of IE not only forces securit...
World IPv6 Launch Day is here: the beginnings of the bigger internet
Credit: Wikipedia If you’ve been on the internet for a long time, you may vaguely remember hearing something about IPv4 and IPv6. However, you probably dismissed them or just simply forgot about them, as to most people they ...
U.S. cities compete for gigabit (1024 Mbps) Internet from Google
What are over 200 Facebook groups and cities across the United States talking about? If you said gigabit Internet from Google, you’re right. Until March 26th, Google is asking cities to send forms telling them things about ...