Arbiter: 1. a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire.2. a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining.This is an article about how human nature and the Network Age are forcing the corporate media to bend to our will, and...
opinion by Erik Larson | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 432 views | 35 recommendations | 11 comments
Considering the number of otherwise credible sources that have reported on this, it would seem it's not a hoax, and if it works should end big telco's profit and greed-driven and already debunked fear-mongering about a coming "internet clog""COMPUTER users frustrated by slow...
"One of the nation’s top authorities on global Internet traffic growth says his latest data show no reason to fear network capacity shortages, as traffic growth may even be slightly decelerating. Updating data collected from Internet exchanges around the...
Maybe it's a trend issue, maybe it's all about page appearance and usability. Maybe tastes have fundamentally changed. Whatever the cause, Facebook is now more popular than MySpace, with over 15 million more...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 375 views | 17 recommendations | 4 comments
It looks like next week is going to be a nightmare for commuters in London.The underground network is going to be thrown into chaos by two transit worker strikes at the same time as the system is undergoing some...
created by Dave Keating | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 194 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"With 1000 films and about 4 billion cinema tickets per year, Indian film industry is attracting world's attention for another reason; it's phenomenal growth, about 17 per cent, during the last two years. On...
created by kavita | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 409 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Is a hip, angsty, edgy version of 90210 even possible? Isn't the whole point of its Beverly Hills zip-coded teen drama existence for it to be a preachy cheese fest? The show's producers have managed to wrangle...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 258 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Update: still the blockade continues..."he EFF tried to get the gag order lifted off the three MIT students who had planned a presentation on how Boston's subway system was vulnerable to some hacks. However, a...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1123 views | 23 recommendations | 13 comments
"I recently found myself in an airport terminal with a laptop and time to kill. Not knowing what the Wi-Fi options were, I let Windows XP search for available wireless networks. As you can see below, one of the...
created by nirajan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1176 views | 21 recommendations | 7 comments
"With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public WiFi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.But in a case of reporters spying on other reporters, three journalists working for the French...
created by nirajan | 4 years ago 317 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Leave it to malware creators to turn your Facebook session into a remake of The Thing. In this case, a new work replicates by nesting in a Facebook or MySpace account and then sending out copies of itself via the...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 165 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
I wonder what gets Bell employees up in the morning? Its hard to imagine feeling good about working for a company that does this."Bell Canada Inc. is moving to impose download limits on customers of independent internet providers, an act the smaller firms say is...
created by mtippett | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 477 views | 5 recommendations | 5 comments