Internet : Global system of interconnected computer networks that use TCP/IP (Standard Internet Protocol Suite)
TCP/IP Protocol was operational by January 1, 1983.
Arpanet gave birth to Internet this same day.
CEO Scott Thompson Leaves Yahoo, Ross Levinsohn is new Chief
UPDATE : ex-Yahoo chief told board he has thyroid cancer. After having gone through five Chief Executive Officers in the past 18 years, Yahoo has appointed, yet again, a new CEO – albeit on an interim basis – following the resignation of Scott Thompson. Yahoo EVP Ross Levisohn replaces Thompson after only about four months [...]
CISPA Passes House of Representatives
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) just passed the House of Representatives with some amendments and with a vote of 248-168. “Now it has to get past the Senate, in some form, and then through the desk of the President, who yesterday floated a veto threat of the Act, signaling unhappiness with its potential [...]
Google shutting down several services
Here comes Google’s Spring-cleaning… After Knol, Wave, Gears and Friend Connect in november 2011, Google is now retiring many other services : -Google One-Pass : my biggest surprise … while the service is only one year old and looked promising, this payment tool for content could replace some of the online advertising for medias, but [...]
The Scope and Size of Porn Sites Today – A Few Astounding Stats
Did you know that the biggest porn site on the web, Xvideos, is actually three times bigger than news website giants CNN and ESPN? Did you know furthermore, that Xvideos averages 4.4 billion page views on a monthly basis? Yes, porn sites comprise a huge bulk of the top 500 sites on the web, and [...]
Facebook Backs up CISPA, Assures FB Users on Security
A new bill concerning the Internet is now brewing in Congress, but unlike its predecessors SOPA and PIPA, a huge list of corporate companies, including Facebook, are backing up the the Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Protection Act or CISPA. The bill or HR 3523 is sponsored by Representative Mike Rogers and Ranking Member Dutch Ruppersberger. [...]
Larry Page, CEO of Google : 2012 Update
In a letter to investors, “2012 Update from the CEO“ Larry Page gave an update on his past year as the director of Google Inc. As did Techcrunch, we can summarize the letter by all the numbers and statistics mentioned inside : -Termination of services : Google closed 30 services in 1 year (including Knol) -Google + : 100 million users and 120 integrations including Youtube, Google Search and Android -Android : 850,000 activations per day, [...]
Yahoo Layoffs : the Web Portal cuts 2,000 jobs
First T-Mobile, now Yahoo! In a letter to employees, the internet company has confirmed the fact that they will be laying off about 14% of their workforce, which equates to approximately 2,000 employees. Most of the layoffs will come in the products department as Yahoo struggles to move the company forward in a time where [...]
What Happens each Minute on the Internet ? [infographic]
This infographic is brought to us by Intel. It shows what’s happening in the Internet World every single minute. And Numbers as just HUGE : -20 new victims of Phishing -135 Botnet infections -47,000 apps downloads -204 million emails sent -6 new articles on Wikipedia -1,300 new mobile users -Amazon makes 83,000 dollars in sales -100 [...]
.COM Domain Names History
.COM domain names are 27 years old. Symbolics.com was the first .Com domain name to be registered. There are 101 million .com registered domain names in the world. Second is .DE with 15 million and third is .NET with 14 million. Most expensive ever .com domain is Insure.com : $16 million. [via]
Americans want faster Websites [infographic]
If you are a webmaster, you need a fast-loading website. Americans don’t like slow sites… 1 in 4 people abandon a page that takes more than 4 seconds to load. 1 in 2 mobile users abandon a site if it doesn’t load in less than 10 seconds. With 1-second delay, Amazon could lose $1.6 billion [...]
Internet in China [infographic]
Here is an infographic about China Internet Statistics. Expect HUGE numbers. China has first World Internet Population with 513 million, twice as second country in the World, United States with 245 million. 55% of Internet Users are men, 45% women and 80% are between 10 and 40 years old. They spend 2.7 hours per day [...]
Are Women more Privacy Oriented Online?
Social media is a major part of many of our lives. Some use these platforms as a way of keeping in touch with long distance family members or friends who have since relocated halfway around the world. With its many upgrades over the years, Facebook – one of the top social media giants – has [...]
EPIC sues FTC to stop Google Privacy Policy
The Google world is all abuzz with the news of Google’s new policy changes that will be effective as of March 1st, 2012. You cannot sign into any Google tools or resources without seeing a pop up box that mentions the new private policy and a link to read them. While private policies are part [...]
Netvibes bought by Dassault Systems for 26 million
French personalized dashboard Netvibes has just been bought by Dassault Systems, a french company specialized in 3D Software and Product Lifecycle Management. The amount of the transaction is estimated at 20 million euros or 26 million US dollars. Netvibes was founded in France in 2005 by Tariq Krim and Florent Frémont. The startup has now [...]
Internet is changing and dividing the World [infographic]
The Internet is a Digital Change but also a Digital Divide that is slowly becoming the Social Divide, Racial Divide and Income Divide. Changing the World : 6 million students are taking online classes. The Internet is responsible for 21% economic growth in developed nations. Dividing the World : 100 million US households lack broadband [...]
Microsoft Trying to Gain from Google’s Pain
Chances are if you use any type of Google service, you have seen the recent announcements that Google is updating its privacy policies. The privacy policies they say are important to users as they plan to incorporate your username into all of the services they offer. The plan, Google execs say, is to make Google [...]
Phishing Initiative : Dmarc.org
Fifteen Web Giants just launched DMARC.org (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance), a project that wants to reduce phishing emails. “The companies—along with others such as financial-service companies Bank of America Corp., FMR LLC’s Fidelity Investments and eBay Inc.’s PayPal—are hoping to create an environment that allows the recipient of an email from, say, a [...]
OVH Web Hosting will install its 360,000 servers-Datacenter in Beauharnois [Quebec]
French leading Webhosting provider OVH will finally build its Canadian Datacenter in the city of Beauharnois in Quebec. North american Head Office will be located downtown Montreal. OVH will have 360,000 new servers (they already own 100,000 servers in Europe) installed in the former area of Rio Tinto Alcan, just near Saint Lawrence River. “In [...]
Google making major update on Privacy Policy and Accounts
Google just announced it will proceed to a major update on its privacy policy and terms of service. For the user, the change will be for the Google Account. “First, our privacy policies. Despite trimming our policies in 2010, we still have more than 70 (yes, you read right … 70) privacy documents covering all of our [...]
MegaUpload and Megavideo shut down by FBI, founders arrested
HUGE News tonight : Megavideo and Megaupload websites are offline (this includes a total of 18 domains shut down). Founders have been arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation, even if they don’t live in United States. 7 people were arrested : Kim Dotcom (Hong Kong/ New Zealand), Finn Batato (Germany), Julius Bencko (Slovakia), Sven Echternach [...]
