Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Amazon.com has rolled out a new promotion, making their two-day shipping and reduced overnight shipping choices free… for college students. Amazon Prime is popular with the tech community for making online stores rival brick-and-mortar stores more closely. Prime allows up to five Amazon.com accounts in a family, for $80 per year, to enjoy free two-day [...]

Bloomberg is reporting that Sony is close to signing a deal with News Corp and NBC Universal owned Hulu to integrate the service as a premium option on the Playstation Network, which is also being offered to Microsoft for potential integration into Xbox LIVE. The service is expected to consist of access to major network [...]

YouTube has won a summary judgment against Viacom regarding a lawsuit filed by the media conglomerate against the video sharing site in 2007 alleging that YouTube willingly and knowingly committed copyright infringement.  The English Premier League via its commercial rights division was also a plaintiff in the case along with Viacom At issue were the [...]

Following the WWDC keynote, Apple released Safari 5, claiming once again the title of fastest web browser. The company’s own benchmarks demonstrate performance gains over Google Chrome, which shares use of the WebKit HTML5 engine. More surprisingly however, Apple issued a security update for the latest Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) branch of Safari. Version [...]

Adobe has updated their “Gala” preview Flash Player release for Mac. The updated version of Adobe Flash is a superset of their ongoing Flash 10.1 Preview Release cycle. Specifically, it adds support for Apple’s new hardware acceleration for non-QuickTime video codecs. This support was added to the operating system, apparently, specifically for Adobe to tap [...]

The courts may have struck down the FCC’s Comcast/BitTorrent ruling (though the FCC will still likely win by re-regulating the internet)… but there’s still a settlement out there stemming from the case. Basically, the settlement was for customers damaged by being unable to use P2P traffic, and/or Lotus Notes during the filtering period. Comcast denied [...]

Ten months is a long time for the two largest social networking applications to share mutual bugs. But, it is nothing but the truth unfortunately. The bug lies in Twitter’s Facebook app. For those late to linking their two social universes, the app has refused to allow new users to sign up, churning out an [...]

Following the rollout of WiMax service in Pennsylvania this week, Sprint and Clearwire have jointly announced the further expansion of service to more markets in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Northeast, Southeast and California during this summer. Residents in n Nashville, TN.; Daytona, Orlando and Tampa, FL.; Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y.; Merced, Modesto, Stockton, and Visalia, [...]

Clearwire has announced that its Clear branded WiMax 4G service is now available to residents of Harrisburg, Reading, Lancaster and York along with surrounding suburbs, covering 740,000 people in 271 square miles. Sprint has also followed suit, launching its Sprint 4G service simultaneously with Clear in the same service area.

Mozilla has released a new beta version of its mobile browser code-named Fennec for download and evaluation on the Nokia N900. Key new features in this version include compatibility with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux for development work, portrait browsing, form auto-complete, context menu, volume key zoom support, and the capability to export pages [...]