Data caps suck on mobile devices. They crimp our style, really. But what’s even more despicable are those same caps implemented on our seemingly infinite amounts of copper and fiber home internet connections. While initial “soft caps” started in the 200-250 GB range, in more recent months/years we’ve seen hard line internet drop as low as a handful of gigabytes. Now, simply having a super low data plan for people who rarely use the...
Tired of flapping your wings arms and gyrating your hips in front of your TV and instead want to kick back and relax? Well, if you can cut out the “relax” and kicked back feet parts, Microsoft has something you might find pretty damn nifty. According to sources of the Verge, Microsoft is currently working on a special version of Internet Explorer 9 designed specifically for the TV screen via Xbox Live + Kinnect. Browsing the web will reportedly be done via a...
Did you know that in 2011 the people of the world will have created/replicated over 1.8 Zetabytes of data (1,800,000,000,000 Gigabytes) and that by 2015 that number is set to rise beyond 7.9 Zetabytes? According to the inforgraph put together by EMC claims each single gigabyte we store can create up to a Petabyte (1,000,000 Gigabytes) of transient data — wireless signals, landline signals such as cable, etc. All in all, the digital world is exploding. ...
If you had any hopes that Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao was one the consumers’ side when it game to a hands-off approach in which the government stays out of the one great thing on this planet — the internet — you were sorely mistaken. In a self addressed letter to the Financial Times, Colao says that despite claims by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg, the internet is not self regulating efficiently enough or quickly enough to keep up with the dangers of piracy,...
Ever heard the claim that the internet is nothing but a series of tubes (How ya doin’ Mr. Ted Stevens)? According to Peer1′s diagram, it is! If you click through the link in the previous sentence you’ll be taken to the full resolution picture which is, huge. But from there you can zoom in/out as you wish. You know, geek out. Via: ...
