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YouTube turns six: 3 billion views per day

Chris Davies, May 25th 2011 Discuss [1]

It's YouTube's sixth birthday, and if you thought online video wouldn't take off - what, really? - then prepare for the avalanche of stats. The site now sees more than 3bn views per day, with a fresh 48hrs worth of footage added every minute. Read The Full Story

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Double Triple Mustard Fried Whole Grilled Onions Chiles on the Side With Fries, Well Done

Philip Berne, May 24th 2011 Discuss [16]

In-N-Out opened in Dallas this month. I was in Korea on business when it happened, but as soon as I returned I decided to swing by and get a burger. The restaurant opened early in the week. I showed up on Saturday to a line of cars that was probably a half mile long, at least. That was just the drive-through. The line of people outside on a gorgeous Texas spring day was more than a hundred strong. Maybe you heard about all of this. Maybe you saw the woman crying tears of joy at the opening of a new fast food restaurant. It did make national news, after all.

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Firefox 5 beta released: CSS animation, boosted performance, more

Chris Davies, May 23rd 2011 Discuss [3]

Mozilla has pushed out the Firefox 5 beta, freshly fettled after five weeks in the company's bleeding-edge Aurora test channel. The new browser adds in CSS animation support, boosts networking, JavaScript and canvas performance, and polishes the standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL and canvas, among other things. Read The Full Story

IPv4 Address, No More For Asia

Kevin Fubar, Apr 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

The organization responsible for doling out internet addresses in asia, the APNIC, just released their last block of available IPv4 addresses. We've known for a long time that the available pool was going to run out sooner or later. It wasn't until recently, with the explosion of mobile devices and individuals getting wired into the Net worldwide. The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) announced in Feburary that they handed the last blocks of IPv4 to the regional registries. With the continued online growth in Asia, they've used up their share a bit earlier than expected. Read The Full Story

ViaSat and JetBlue Airways to bring Ka-band high-speed internet to flights

Shane McGlaun, Apr 12th 2011 Discuss [0]

We have been able to get internet service in the air on flights on most major airlines for years now. The ability to get online at 30,000 feet closed one of the few remaining holes where travelers weren't able to gain access to the internet. JetBlue and ViaSat have announced an agreement that will bring faster web access to passengers. Read The Full Story

75 Year Old “Spade Hacker” Shuts Down Internet for Two Countries

Samia Perkins, Apr 7th 2011 Discuss [4]

A 75 year old woman, who was just trying to scrape out a living by digging up copper wire to sell, inadvertently shut down the internet for two countries on March 28. The woman somehow unearthed and cut the fiber optic cable running between Georgia and Armenia, shutting down online access for a good part of the day, 5 hours in Georgia and 12 in Armenia. Read The Full Story

LOL is Now Officially English

Kevin Fubar, Mar 25th 2011 Discuss [5]

The Oxford English Dictionary added a number of networthy initialisms to the ranks of official English words. If you haven't heard of an initialism before, I hadn't, you'll now know that this is a word that is created by making an acronym from the first letters of each word in a longer phrase. The venerable dictionary added and updated a collection of these acronyms to it's rolls of wordiness earlier today. Read The Full Story

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Want to Hear a Great Story?

Ben Bajarin, Mar 19th 2011 Discuss [11]

Sometimes having the Internet in your pocket is convenient other times it is extremely useful. This story is an example of the latter. Some context first, I grew up in Silicon Valley, one of the more well known tech hubs in our country. I also grew up completely immersed in technology because my father, Tim Bajarin, was one of the first PC industry analysts on the scene. I’ve had a PC of some kind in my life as far back as I remember, which is what makes this story all the more interesting.
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Adult Entertainment .XXX Domains Get ICANN Approval

Rue Liu, Mar 18th 2011 Discuss [8]

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, today officially approved the .XXX top level domains (TLD) to be enforced on pornographic websites. This controversial topic has been debated back and forth since it was first proposed in 2000 and then approved in 2005 only to be overturned in 2006 and once again reconsidered in 2007. Read The Full Story

Study: Children Under 5 Are Spending More Time Online

Samia Perkins, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Of the children under 5 in the United States who use the Internet, 80% use it on a weekly basis, according to a new report by the non-profit Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Sesame Workshop. The report, titled "Always Connected", put together data from seven recent studies, and shows that small children are using all types of digital media, often using more than one type of media at once. Read The Full Story

FCC Net Neutrality proposal blocked

Chris Davies, Mar 10th 2011 Discuss [4]

Net neutrality has suffered a new blow, with the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology rejecting the FCC's open-internet regulations. According to the WSJ, a 15-8 partisan vote saw House Republicans send the proposals back to the full Energy and Commerce Committee, arguing that the FCC lacked the statutory authority under the Telecommunications Act to implement the rules. Read The Full Story

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Being Myself Online Tastes Better

Philip Berne, Mar 7th 2011 Discuss [5]

When I walked into Square Burger for the second time, it wasn’t hard to notice that the staff was treating me a little bit differently. The bartender remembered my name and the beer I had drunk on my last visit. They have a few dozen beers on tap, so that was something of an accomplishment on both counts. I sat at the counter and ordered lunch. The first time I had eaten a burger with bleu cheese and balsamic onions. This time I went for a cheeseburger with bacon. I stuck with the sweet potato fries, because they were awesome. I’ve been to Square Burger five times in the last year and a half, and I’ve never tried the regular fries. Those sweet potato fries are better than they deserve to be.