Google Anti-Trust Investigation One Step Closer
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:10 Written by External Post Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:10
To get a better understanding of where this is coming from, we need to go back in time to September. At that time, Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt testified in person in front of the United States Senate’s antitrust subcommittee. You can read a summary of the three-hour hearing from Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land. The subcommittee meeting was attended by both Herman Kohl (a Democrat, and the chairman of the subcommittee) and Mike Lee (a Republican). The latter went after Schmidt like a cross-examining lawyer at a trial, according to Sterling. So what is Lee’s problem with Google? Lee not…
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Winston Churchill war letter to be sold
Last Updated on Monday, 28 November 2011 09:10 Written by External Post Monday, 28 November 2011 09:10
The letter urges farmers to do all they can in "this hour of supreme crisis" A letter signed by the British wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill is to be sold at an auction in Shropshire. The three-paged, typed correspondence – dated 14 October 1940 – is addressed to…
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Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage
Last Updated on Monday, 27 September 2010 05:00 Written by External Post Monday, 27 September 2010 05:00
Julie188 writes “That was probably the only time “DNS” will ever be a trending term on Twitter . The cause was Facebook’s 2.5 hour outage on Thursday, which incorrectly told users trying to access the site that a DNS error was to blame. In truth, experts
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Facebook Explains ‘Worst Outage’ in Four Years
Last Updated on Saturday, 25 September 2010 07:20 Written by External Post Saturday, 25 September 2010 07:20
Facebook posted a note yesterday evening explaining the sites downtime earlier that day a 2.5 hour period that the company described as the worst outage in over four years. The explanation may not be clear if youre not involved in IT. It describes
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Breaking the Internet in one easy step
Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 12:01 Written by External Post Tuesday, 31 August 2010 12:01
For about an hour on Friday, about 1 to 2 percent of the Internet went higgly-piggly.
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Case Study: Safe internet usage in education
Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 11:00 Written by External Post Tuesday, 24 August 2010 11:00
Bootham School provides pupils with state-of-the-art IT facilities in its classrooms, library and laboratories as well as two dedicated ICT suites, with fast 24-hour broadband available on every PC. Download this case study to learn how the school
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Google removes homepage image experiment
Last Updated on Friday, 11 June 2010 07:40 Written by External Post Friday, 11 June 2010 07:40
Fourteen hours into a 24-hour experiment with background imagery, Google’s homepage is once again stark white. Design guru Marissa Mayer confirmed that Google was ending the experiment early due to what she called a “bug”. The bug erased a link
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Friday Poll: Which Google stunt would grab you?
Last Updated on Friday, 11 June 2010 05:21 Written by External Post Friday, 11 June 2010 05:21
Google on Thursday rolled out a new feature to let people choose background photos and colors for their Google home pages–a la Microsoft’s Bing–then retracted it 14 hours later. It was a 24-hour experiment, Google says, but before it was done, the
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Google Introduces, Then Scraps, Bing-Style Background Images
Last Updated on Friday, 11 June 2010 12:00 Written by External Post Friday, 11 June 2010 12:00
NIN1385 writes ‘Google has scrapped the now infamous background image option on their homepage. After 14 hours of their scheduled 24 hour experiment to see how people liked (or disliked) their new homepage layout they must have found out it was very
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‘Sudden Failure’ Brings Twitter Down
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 10:45 Written by External Post Wednesday, 20 January 2010 10:45
Twitter addicts had to entertain themselves with something other than the social network and microblogging site for more than an hour Wednesday morning. Wed, January 20, 2010 — IDG News Service — Twitter addicts had to entertain themselves with
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