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Demonoid taken down by Ukrainian authorities

, Aug 6th 2012 Discuss [14]

Chalk another one up for the governments waging this anti-piracy war we keep hearing so much about, as Ukrainian authorities have taken down Demonoid. The raid on Demonoid's servers comes after the torrent tracking giant suffered a large-scale DDoS attack a few days before, and it seems that the US may have been involved in some way. Reports say that Anti-Cyber ​​Research Affairs of Kiev conducted the raid on Demonoid host ColoCall, copying all of the information on Demonoid's servers before shutting them down. Read The Full Story

Twitter introduces Simple Search

, Jul 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Representatives from the Twitter empire have today spoken of a new era of search within the home website of the 140 character titan. This upgrade within the site's codes will allow for "Simpler Search" as they put it, it including both search autocomplete and 'People you follow' search results. This update will require no additional effort from you, the user, with all of the newness coming from Twitter's own developers on their side of the web. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm and Akamai aim to reduce mobile internet load times

, Jun 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

It’s all about the need for speed in the world of the smartphone, and we’re certainly not going to say no to anything that makes the overall experience faster. Qualcomm and Akamai have teamed up to try and further optimize mobile page load times across devices. The duo are working on new protocol optimizations that will improve page load performance and save on bandwidth in the process. Read The Full Story

ICANN suspends domain sales amid address spill

, Jun 15th 2012 Discuss [1]

When the companies applying to purchase such internet addresses as .google, .apple, and .shop, signed up to get in on the sale this season, they didn't expect to have their own physical addresses leaked in the process. That's what appears to have happened as the organization responsible for commanding the universe of domains, ICANN, has suspended sales until it's able to erase their private information spill that occurred this week. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers have promised that this gaffe was non-intentional and the postal addresses leaked this week will not be visible in the future. Read The Full Story

Google picks up domain names galore

, May 31st 2012 Discuss [1]

This week Google is working with ICANN to expand the diversity of the web, applying for more than 50 domain names in all including but not limited to ".google", ".youtube", and ".lol". Google has let it be known that because half the world's websites are in the .com TLD, they're seeking to expand. Google was thrilled back in 2008 when ICANN announced that they'd be opening the flood gates, so to speak, and expansion began - now Google is submitting applications for TLDs that will have you browsing the Google web more than ever before, and relatively soon as well. Read The Full Story

NBCUniversal in talks to buy back MSNBC.com

, May 25th 2012 Discuss [1]

We've had quite a few changes going on in the online environment over the last two years with websites being purchased left and right. More changes are coming apparently with sources claiming to have knowledge of the negotiations reporting that NBCUniversal is in negotiations Microsoft to buy back MSNBC.com. The MSNBC television network and the MSNBC.com website launched in 1996 as a joint venture between NBC and Microsoft. Read The Full Story

Anonymous not finished with China – More attacks coming soon

, Apr 9th 2012 Discuss [15]

Those popular hacktivists are at it again this past week, hacking hundreds and hundreds of Chinese government websites recently. While they managed to deface well over 500 sites we are now hearing they aren't finished yet and have even more plans for the Chinese government coming soon, and bigger targets. Read The Full Story

250ms is enough wait to send web users packing

, Mar 1st 2012 Discuss [22]

I can remember back when I first got online and dial up was all we could get. It would take minutes to download a single webpage if it had several photographs. Today, even slow broadband will open a page packed with photos in a second or two, but even that isn't fast enough for most web users. According to a Google engineer working on making things faster, a scant 250 ms slower than a competitor is enough to send users away. Read The Full Story
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