Internet Company Go Daddy Announces a Halt to new Business in China GoDaddy.com the domain name registration and Web hosting company, told lawmakers yesterday that it will halt registering Web sites in China in response to intrusive new government rules…
W3C Tim Berners-Lee to head Institute of Web Science
W3C Tim Berners-Lee to head new U.K. Institute of Web Science The World Wide Web Consortium’s director and MIT professor Tim Berners-Lee will head a new British government research and policy organization according to press reports in the Financial Times.…
Google Page Speed: Improving website performance
What is Page Speed and How Can you Benefit? What is Page Speed? Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions…
Browser Wars: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview Microsoft is back in the browser race according to press reports published today. ComputerWorld quotes a Forrester analyst Sheri McLeish as saying, “They want to be more than a follower or just on features…
Browser Wars: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview Microsoft is back in the browser race according to press reports published today. ComputerWorld quotes a Forrester analyst Sheri McLeish as saying, “They want to be more than a follower or just on features…
Google Exec’s approve of opportunity to export technology to Iran, Cuba
U.S. Decides to Relax Restrictions to Export Internet Technologies to Iran and Cuba Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba according to press reports. Bob Boorstin,…
Google Exec’s approve of opportunity to export technology to Iran, Cuba
U.S. Decides to Relax Restrictions to Export Internet Technologies to Iran and Cuba Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba according to press reports. Bob Boorstin,…
Entrepreneurship and the Older Worker
Workers aged 50+ are more likely than their younger counterparts to be self-employed or small business owners. According to the Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College the findings of a recent survey include: Workers 50 and older…
Google the 800 lb Guerrilla?
Microsoft CEO: Google merits regulatory scrutiny Recent press reports reflect that CEO Steve Ballmer intends to keep the regulatory heat on Google as his company strives to lessen its rival’s dominance of Internet search stating that Google merits regulatory scrutiny.…
Millennial Generation: A Pew Survey
Judy Woodruff, PBS News Hour takes a look at how the millennial generation — people born after 1980 — fits into the current political and economic spectrum. The Pew Center’s Paul Taylor and Amanda Lenhart discuss their new report. They…