Wednesday proved to be the day when the Egyptian government decided to restore the Internet to its citizens after almost a week, a move seen by many as an appeal to return to normalcy. A week ago officials decided to shutdown the Internet in the country, trying to put an end to the protests, considering [...]
Mountain View based search giant Google plans to introduce a new version of its enterprise search hardware today. From now on, corporate users can access both data behind the company’s firewall and cloud-based online services like Google Docs or Sites. This can be achieved by using the new tool included in Google’s Search Appliance v6.8 [...]
Craigslist has decided to censor its adult services, after a long battle with the authorities and various groups. Ever since the adult section has appeared on Craigslist, it has been a subject of protests from various parties, and now it has been replaced by the word Censored. First of all, attorneys started pressuring the very [...]
Celebrities are dangerous in real life – they tend to be aggressive when surrounded by fans or paparazzi – but they are even more dangerous online, especially when it comes to internet searches. Common searches for news or pictures about celebrities – especially the female ones – can lead users to dangerous websites full of [...]
Facebook is considered the best of the social networks online. Its services grow continuously, so does its user base. Their new service launched today might be – it’s called Facebook Places and it allows users to share their current location on their status page and tag others that are there with them. The online geo-location [...]
It’s been 71 years since Dorothy and her friends Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and Toto the dog discovered Emerald City after they followed the yellow brick road. And Google is celebrating the 71st anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz”, a musical written based on L.Frank Baum’s novel with a cute doodle to [...]
It is not a legal document, it’s only a policy proposal that was submitted for consideration to the US Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It’s not a law, not a bill, but could provide freedom to all American internet users. Network neutrality is the principle according to which no internet service providers should [...]
Google seems to be really serious about entering in force on the social gaming market. After investing $150 million in the social game development company Zynga (responsible for games like Farmville and Mafia) and acquiring the social game development company Slide for $182 million, Google has made another step towards the launch of its supposed [...]
Google has confirmed the rumors circulating around the web for days – it has announced the acquisition of Slide Inc., a company involved in creating social games. Slide has developed games like SuperPoke, FunSpace or Top Fish. Google’s Engineering Director, David Glazer said that for the company he works with the web is about people [...]
Google has announced the end of another project that was meant to be the new way of online communication – so, from now on, Google Wave is no more. The concept was good, but it seems that people were not ready for a change this big, so the new cross-platform online communication tool that was [...]