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internet
December 20 to 31, 2005
The EFF releases Tor, an anonymous
internet
communications system. Note it's still in progress...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
History, Patents, and You http://news.zdnet.co.uk/
internet
/ecommerce/0,39020372,39147408,00.ht...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched Google Maps has changed the face of mapping services on the
internet
overnight thanks to its excellent design. Note that it doesn't work (well) in Safari quite yet...
January 24 to 30, 2005
This was the week of world-wide coincidences that could only happen thanks to the wonder of the
internet
. Now that so many are sharing photos online, people are beginning to find interestin...
Using Skype (voice over the
internet
), John Perry Barlow was called at random by two young women, one in Vietnam and one in Korea, wanting to learn how to speak English. Here's his reflections on "th...
The first feature film to be delivered via wireless
internet
technology was shown at the Sundance Film Festival...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The Web and the
internet
are enabling more direct soldier-to-family communications that ever before. Hopefully, this will make societies more aware of the real costs of war...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A detailed technical analysis of the BitTorrent file sharing protocol, which consumes 35% of ALL
internet
traffic...
Yahoo! Maps now overlays live traffic conditions on its maps. How about antialiasing those map lines first before doing any new, folks...
December 6 to 12, 2004
I really like the design sense of the architects behind it, but am continually frustrated by the design of architects' Web sites. Architects typically have the least usable sites on the
internet
...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Arm wrestling over the
internet
! Why can't we settle wars this way? It's basically the same thing...
A new consumer surveillance tool allows people to view satellite images of the ground at a resolution of two feet: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=
internet
News&storyID=694688...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The
internet
Security Key safeguards your kids from online porn...
November 8 to 14, 2004
In 2005 Hawaiian Electric will start a large-scale test of
internet
over power lines in Pearl City. It will also offer the ability to read electricity meters remotely...
The FCC further deregulates
internet
phone services...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Will the
internet
give birth to the "creative generation"...
Publish your Creative Commons-licensed audio or video with this app and have it hosted automatically by the
internet
Archive, which has massive amounts of bandwidth...
October 18 to 24, 2004
Re-establishing the Ancient Interne...
ASCAP seals a huge deal to "let stations legally stream their on-air content over the "
internet
"...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the
internet
’s First Decade of Public Use" - TV down, net up, averaging 12.5 hrs/week...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Ditch buggy
internet
Explorer! Spread Firefox...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Skype, the most popular Voice Over IP (VOIP) app, is now available for Mac OSX! Talk to friends around the world for free using your
internet
connection...
The city of Philadelphia is considering providing free or cheap wireless
internet
access to everybody...
August 8 to 14, 2004
How ultrawideband technology may change the world - it may be as disruptive as the
internet
...
E-commerce turns 10. Don't believe the hype-the first secure online Web-based shopping transaction was done via Randy Adams'
internet
Shopping Network, which I developed the interface for in 1994...
August 2 to 8, 2004
The FCC, by the way, would like to prohibit you from recording anything from the
internet
...
The story behind the
internet
Movie Database, one of the most popular, useful Web sites ever made...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
The first debut of an entire TV show episode over the
internet
...
How to fully remove
internet
Explorer from your PC...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Have you ditched
internet
Explorer yet? It's lost 1% in popularity so far, its first recorded decline in five years. That's about 300,000 people...
Will libraries be illegal? Brewster Kahle's
internet
Archive aims to be the modern Library of Alexandria - here's a fascinating recent talk on his fight to archive digital media and create a fre...
Genetic algorithms can help evolve a faster, more efficient
internet
...
"Movie piracy on
internet
called an epidemic"...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"US Government warns against
internet
Explorer...
June 21 to 27, 2004
This week's theme: the Fahrenheit 9/11 effect Why should you move away from DSL to cable? First, there's the new Supplier Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) Recovery Fee, which only applies to DS...
Spyware is evolving - new strains have been detected that are self-updating, persistent, and really malicious. And users are paying up the nose (and suffering) for Microsoft's security lapses. Dum...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Following in the footsteps of AT&T, telephone giant BT is transforming its entire phone network to using IP (
internet
) protocol...
The ten best
internet
fads...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"For the second straight year, an
internet
unknown won the famed World Series of Poker on Friday, ravaging a field of professional players on his way to glory and riches....
May 17 to 23, 2004
Eight years ago my old startup bought from Peapod every week. Now online groceries are coming back! http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/
internet
/05/19/
internet
.grocery.ap/index.htm...
The New World Symphony uses
internet
2 videoconferencing for orchestra training...
The entire Grateful Dead live music vaults are now online at the
internet
Archive...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
When the island of Tuvalu sinks, it will be the only country to exist solely on the
internet
...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Three out of four Americans have access to the
internet
...
Apple sells 50 million songs over the
internet
...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed
internet
service via its power lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S.
internet
users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. They interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"There has been a dramatic rise in the number of people detained or sentenced for
internet
-related offences in China, according to the London-based rights group Amnesty International"...
"UH to host world conference on future of
internet
...
January 19 to 25, 2004
Here's a look at one of the hearts of the
internet
- the Network Operations Center hosting one of the dozen or so class A root servers that exist around the globe - if these machines went down...
January 12 to 18, 2004
Finally, Verizon announces that it will convert its entire nationwide telecommunications network to packet switching, "the protocol on which the
internet
runs". This, over 40 years after AT&...
"New anti-spam laws fail to bite" http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/
internet
/01/12/spam.continues/index.htm...
An uplifting story of how a frantic woman at an airport is saved minutes before takeoff by a laptop connected with Bluetooth to a cell phone connected to the
internet
connected to her email...
Cuba cracks down on
internet
use...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Spamming and phishing The PayPal email scam - and other fake corporate email scams - are getting more insidious lately. Beware! The term for this is "phishing", and attacks increased by 400% in th...
December 8 to 14, 2003
I've mentioned cdbaby before, but it's becoming a force in the music industry to be reckoned with, thanks to the power of the
internet
...
December 1 to 7, 2003
"Public Libraries Use
internet
to Sell Old Books, Help Budgets...
November 3 to 9, 2003
"Music fans in the US are buying almost twice as many singles in digital form over the
internet
as they are on CDs from stores, according to a report"...
October 14, 2003
The Beginning of the End of the
internet
...
September 30, 2003
You heard it here first folks. Windows is indeed a threat to national security: http://www.
internet
wk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1520028...
September 15, 2003
Computer visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "shareware". He also invented Cybersyn, an
internet
-like socialist computer system created for the revolutionary Chilean government in the earl...
August 25, 2003
* 30% (estimated) of China's
internet
users (about 22 million users...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power,
internet
, and phone networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what network wires t...
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...
July 7, 2003
An article on Estonia, where
internet
access was declared a fundamental human right by law.....