Not to be outdone by the worldliness of Sharp’s new e-Dictionary, Openmoko, the makers of the WikiReader, today announced downloadable updates for the palm-sized encyclopedia to support 14 additional languages including Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Norwegian, Greek, French, Finnish, Danish, Dutch, German, Spanish, Welsh, Russian and Hungarian. In addition to translated versions of the WikiReader’s 3 [...]
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No Comments »The introduction of the tabbed web browsing user interface was a major improvement to web browsing software – so much so that all major web browsers, like Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera all include some rendition of tabs to organize web pages in an Internet session. Prior to tabs, each web page a user [...]
Flying for any extended period of time is not something most people enjoy. Cramped quarters and limited recreational activities often challenge even the most focused individuals. In a era when more people than ever are spending large portions of their free time surfing the web or engaged in some form of social networking, it seems [...]
Posted in Content Delivery, Internet, Misc, Technology Tags: Aircell, airplane, Gogo, in-flight broadband, Internet, WiFi No Comments »One of the greatest challenges facing small ISP companies isn’t necessarily the connection to individual customers, but rather the backhaul portion of their network by which their customers are connected to the rest of the Internet. Often, these companies must lease bandwidth from larger companies like AT&T whose infrastructure comprise the backbone of the Internet [...]
Posted in Internet, Technology, Web Technology Tags: Allied Fiber, backhaul, broadband, fiber, FTTH, infrastructure, Internet 1 Comment »Robert Cailliau, along with Tim Berners-Lee, co-developed the World Wide Web decades ago. Without his work, the Internet as we know it today probably wouldn’t exist. So needless to say, when he speaks, people tend to listen. The folks at TechCrunch recently snagged an interesting interview with him in which he opines about several topics [...]
Posted in Internet, Web Technology Tags: Facebook, Internet, privacy, Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners-Lee 1 Comment »I know a lot of people that want a FTTH (fiber to the home) Internet connection. As they should. While several ISPs continue to milk their existing copper based infrastructure for every last inferior Mbit/sec of bandwidth, the only true way this country is going to achieve a national broadband network capable of supporting the [...]
Posted in Content Delivery, Internet, Technology Tags: broadband, fcc broadband plan, fiber, FTTH, Internet, national broadband plan, Verizon 1 Comment »There’s been a lot of discussion recently centered on the FCC’s proposed broadband plan. Proponents hope it will finally bring universal broadband to rural Americans, while opponents claim it won’t do enough to increase competitive market forces. However one decides to look at the existing proposal, its important to consider historically similar situations [...]
