The number of internet users worldwide grows every day. The online world is already a big place, and it’s only going to continue to grow. Right now, about a third (35%) of the world’s total population has access to an internet connection – that’s about 2.5 billion people. The country with the highest internet penetration […]
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It’s been going on since mid-2010 and if Oracle has anything to do with it, it won’t be ending anytime soon. Despite the fact that the judge had ruled in Oracles favour, they weren’t awarded any damages and had to pay Google’s legal fees. Oracle has said that they intend to appeal the decision. In […]
With the increasing problem of cyber-bullying, which is said to have reached an epidemic level on social networking websites and internet forums, one could be forgiven for thinking that these websites suffer from a worrying degree of lawlessness. However, when The Independent newspaper journalist Guy Adams tweeted NBC Executive Gary Zenkel’s e-mail address and encouraged […]
Content on the internet today has stretched to the limits of what can be stored digitally. We can share entire movies in minutes, video chat in almost perfect quality without any lag and take self-paced virtual tours through cities. It doesn’t sound impressive at all, but when you consider that just two decades ago, the […]
Google isn’t exactly new to being accused of privacy issues or being ruled against in such cases. It’s to be expected for a company whose activities include photographing the cities and streets so people can take virtual tours of it (Street View) or monitoring search activity to make their results more intuitive. But many say […]
5 years have passed since Google first announced it’s plan to protect all users of their search engine from malware and phishing attacks, with its Safe Browsing policy. Today, following what was originally a somewhat humble goal of returning clean search results to queries, they are now the Internet’s main deterrence against these types of […]
Social search has been a hot topic over the last few years. With the amount and speed of content being propagated on these types of sites, being able to navigate effectively through such a breadth of potentially valuable data was valid interest. And with Google+ being the first to release a high functionality social search […]
Since the beginning of the year, ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has been taking applications for custom generic TLD’s or top level domains, which will enable companies to have their own brand as a domain, rather than the standard .com or .co.za. Coming in at $185,000 per application, and an annual […]
In some earlier articles, (ICANN Approves Brand Name Suffixes and IAB Opposes Brand Domains) we’ve discussed the then approaching launch of generic top level domains, and some of the issues around them. Now, the day has come, and as of yesterday, ICANN began accepting applications for top level domains with custom suffixes, instead of the […]
According to a recent report in WebProNews, IAB, the Interactive Advertising Bureau, is opposing the recently publicised decision by ICAAN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to lift restrictions on generic top level domains. The lifting of this restriction will make it possible for companies to use their own brand names as top level […]