Articles on Internet, Web

Eternal Internet - Nov 15, 2009

Blogs Ever thought about how Web pages are linked to each other? In his book Linked, Albert-Làszlò Barabàsi describes the topology of the Internet as a scale-free network. Webpages are connected to ... Read story »

Nintendo offers free Web browsing on its Wii console - Sep 2, 2009

Crave Nintendo Wii owners who wanted to browse the Web from their consoles have previously been forced to purchase the Wii Internet Channel application from the Wii Shop Channel for 500 ... Read story »

.中国 is coming, and China is pleased - Nov 1, 2009

Blogs The Internet, for its 40th birthday this week, got quite a shakeup: For the first time ever, Internet domain extensions can comprise non-Latin characters. After the domination of .com, .net, .co.jp, ... Read story »

Why China's "Great Firewall" is so anti-social (networking)... - Sep 11, 2009

Blogs 2009 in China has turned out to be the year of heightened Web censorship, implemented by the nationwide filtering system known--not very affectionately--as "The Great Firewall".Many hoped that the Beijing Olympics ... Read story »

A mifi little wonder - Sep 23, 2009

Blogs Over the last few week, I have been testing the M1 Mifi 2353 which was sent to me a few days before its launch. It's the latest Wi-Fi wireless router which ... Read story »

Thailand tackles online censorship again - Nov 9, 2009

Blogs Prathet Thai, or land of the free, is what Thailand is called in the Thai language. Land of the free (and home of the brave) also defines the US. As the ... Read story »

Top Web threats in the history of the Internet - Sep 4, 2009

Blogs This week is the 40th anniversary of the Internet. To mark this important milestone, this geek found it really interesting that Symantec took a look back at some of the most ... Read story »

Obama: "I have never used Twitter" - Nov 16, 2009

Blogs One of the interesting things to come out of his just concluded townhall meeting in Shanghai was US President Barack Obama's admission: "I have never used Twitter". Obama casually divulged this ... Read story »

Punch Camera prints hole-filled papers - Oct 4, 2009

Crave Designer Matty Martin's Punch Camera has a built-in printer, but it doesn't use ink to print photographs. Instead, the device punches holes of different sizes on a piece of paper ... Read story »

Manny Pacquiao wife gets support from Filipino Twitter users - Nov 19, 2009

Blogs Ironically, rumors of an affair with a sexy young actress may have done more to hurt boxing's pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao than tough erstwhile welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. A ... Read story »

Google Chrome OS challenges Windows 7, while Microsoft Gazelle takes on Google Chrome browser - Jul 8, 2009

Blogs The fight between Google and Microsoft is heating up after Google announced its intention to enter the OS market via Google Chrome. Yes, Chrome, which started as a browser, is now ... Read story »

Neil Gaiman's audio book based on tweets - Oct 13, 2009

Crave Neil Gaiman is using Twitter to solicit contributions for an audio book project. Twitter may not be making money but at least it's providing a forum for some innovative artistic ... Read story »

Mobile Internet flourishes with Michael Jackson's death - Jun 29, 2009

Crave Network traffic overview when news of Jackson's death hit the Web. When news of pop music legend Michael Jackson's death hit the Web last week, it brought the Internet down ... Read story »

People still spend 12 hours per week on the Internet - Jul 29, 2009

Crave The amount of time people spend online has not increased since last year, according to a report released by Forrester on Monday. Perhaps more interesting, however, is the reason for ... Read story »

More of the evil Internet for schools - Jul 30, 2009

Blogs Some time in the mid-ninties, when I was but a teenage young 'un, we were called to the weekly assembly where one of the head teachers announced they had discovered that ... Read story »

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