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Our glorious cloud computing future just got a little stormy

Friday, April 22, 2011 - 10:49am

Noticing that some of your favorite sites have been missing over the last two days? While high profile sites such as FourSquare have recovered from a lengthy outage, many other sites, such as the popular video game blog, Giant Bomb, are down as of this post. Surprisingly, Amazon — which, like Google, makes few server missteps — is to blame.

Study: Giving up our gadgets leaves us 'itching, like a crackhead'

Kevin Hall

Friday, April 8, 2011 - 8:08am

Is using technology addictive? One study, titled "The World Unplugged," asked 1,000 youngsters from ages 17 to 23 in 10 countries to give up the gadget and go a full day without one's phone, computer, TV, etc. Turned out it was "a horrible day," a Chilean said.

Twitter turns five-years-old, continues breaking news

Raymond Wong

Monday, March 21, 2011 - 6:46am

Five years ago, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent out the world's first Tweet. It said: "just setting up my twttr." Today, it's used to archive what we ate for lunch and more importantly, break news in real-time.

.XXX domains are coming

Friday, March 18, 2011 - 1:45pm

ICANN, the folks who decide how domain names work, have just approved the .xxx extension, which will allow porn sites to be more easily filtered from those who don't want to see them.

Scientists plan RoboEarth, a 'World Wide Web for robots'

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 2:29pm

A group of scientists in Europe are looking to create a shared space for robots to swap what they've learned with one another, as well as help each other figure out new problems. It's called RoboEarth, and the folks behind it are saying it's essentially a Wikipedia that's just for robots — effectively a shared consciousness.

Image of the Day: just how big is the Internet?

Megan Wollerton

Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 6:00am

How much do you rely on the Internet? Here's a nifty infographic that gives you stats on how we stay connected every day....

Activists in Egypt use fax machines, ham radios and other outdated tech to protest

Raymond Wong

Monday, January 31, 2011 - 7:31am

The ongoing information blackout in Egypt is so serious that activists are actually digging through their garages and attics for old dial-up modems, fax machines and ham radios to replace the blocked Internet. I guess the old phrase, "one man's trash is another man's treasure" still applies in this situation.

Today Show hosts were clueless about the Internet in 1994

Michael Trei

Sunday, January 30, 2011 - 8:49am

The Internet has become such an integral part of most people's daily lives, that it's easy to forget how recent it actually is. In this hilarious clip from January 1994, Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric seem to be completely clueless about what the Internet and basic things like email are.

Egypt adds a new weapon to its arsenal: turning off the Internet

Kevin Hall

Friday, January 28, 2011 - 9:39am

In what's being considered an unprecedented move, Egypt has managed to almost completely remove itself from the Internet, disconnecting itself amid protests and fighting.

South Korea demoes LTE-Advanced, makes 3G look like dial-up

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 12:04pm

Hey, speaking of broadband penetration, why don't we take a look at what South Korea, the world leader in Internet tech, is doing? Oh, looks like they're driving around in an RV stuffed to the gills with tech, showing off an LTE-Advanced network that can wirelessly suck in 700MB of data in under 10 seconds. So, just another Wednesday in South Korea.

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Our glorious cloud computing future just got a little stormy

Study: Giving up our gadgets leaves us 'itching, like a crackhead'

Twitter turns five-years-old, continues breaking news

.XXX domains are coming

Scientists plan RoboEarth, a 'World Wide Web for robots'

Image of the Day: just how big is the Internet?

Activists in Egypt use fax machines, ham radios and other outdated tech to protest

Today Show hosts were clueless about the Internet in 1994

Egypt adds a new weapon to its arsenal: turning off the Internet

South Korea demoes LTE-Advanced, makes 3G look like dial-up

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