A 2012 report from the New America Foundation found that residents of major American cities pay more money for slower Internet service than their counterparts in major cities around the world. Case in point: in Hong Kong, roughly $35 gets you access to a fiber-optics network with 500 Mbps download speed; in New York or Washington, it gets you a cable network at 25 Mbps.
"We’re going to see the market flooded with hundreds of new domain extensions in the coming months and years, and our data shows that investors and corporations are evidently warming up to the idea of using different extensions," said Tobias Flaitz, Sedo’s CEO.
Stats to Prepare You for the Domain Flood – 'Net Features – Website Magazine
Changing your IP address or using proxy servers to access public websites you’ve been forbidden to visit is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a judge ruled Friday in a case involving Craigslist and 3taps.
Changing IP address to access public website ruled violation of US law | Ars Technica
Arguably, we haven’t seen a lot of innovation in audio online. Video, photography, and the written word have been transformed: Oodles of clever tools let us use them for thinking, talking, analyzing, and cogitating. But this hasn’t happened with sound. Sure, we’ve got endless apps for collecting and listening to music, but nothing for the enormous universe of nonmusical sound.
The Web Is Too Quiet. It's Time to Pump Up the Volume | Wired.com
To paraphrase Steve Jobs, design isn’t just what it looks like. It’s how it works. These sources break down the way design works–what’s coming up, what’s going down, and what you need to pay attention to.
101 Signals: The 18 People Who Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Design | Wired.com
Much ink has been spilled drafting the Steve Jobs encomium. But Jobs and Apple are interesting for far more than technological prowess — they provide an allegory for reading religion in the information age. They are further evidence that shifts in popular religion throughout history are accompanied by changes in the media environment: when the dominant modes of communication change, so do the frameworks for religious belief. Still, this shift would require a fitting mythology…
How Steve Jobs Turned Technology And Apple Into Religion | Wired.com
A solid update if you need any of the few new features—and an update to Adobe’s popular photo app gets spared the Creative Cloud license. Hooray for competition.
Adobe Lightroom 5 review: Who needs to be licensed or connected? | Ars Technica
A reckoning is sweeping through Silicon Valley, and the cries of pain have grown too loud to ignore.
The Screams of Crushed Startups Echo Across Silicon Valley | Wired.com
The malware that was found was common stuff. There were no signs of persistent, novel infections, nor any indications that the perpetrators were nation-states rather than common, untargeted criminal attacks. The audit does, however, note that the EDA’s IT infrastructure was so badly managed and insecure that no attacker would need sophisticated attacks to compromise the agency’s systems.
US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses | Ars Technica
Newspapers have digital subscriptions. Record labels have iTunes and Spotify. And YouTube is about to have special programming for paying customers.
The advent of hybrid laptops that double as tablets or offer some sort of touch input has greatly complicated the life of web developers.
A big part of developing for today’s myriad screens is knowing when to adjust the interface, based not just on screen size, but other details like input device. Fingers are far less precise than a mouse, which means bigger buttons, form fields and other input areas.
What the Tablet-Laptop Hybrid Means for Web Developers | Wired.com
The Internet is groaning today under the load of a huge cyberattack — one of the worst on record — that’s clogged some of its most vital systems.
Who's To Blame For The Huge Cyberattack Slowing The Web? Your ISP – ReadWrite
In this particular vision of the future, a small but rapidly growing number of innovations are born, nurtured, produced, and sent to market from a tiny but vivacious country sandwiched between the Pacific and the Amazon — Ecuador.
Read more: Plotting the next Silicon Valley — you'll never guess where | Crave – CNET
Lanier believes that if we continue on our present path, where we think of computers as passive tools, instead of machines that real people create, our myopia will result in less understanding of both computers and human beings, which could cause the demise of democracy, mass unemployment, the erosion of the middle class, and social chaos.