Google Wants to Bring 1 Billion People Online with Balloon Internet, White Space Spectrum [WSJ]

Google Wants to Bring 1 Billion People Online with Balloon Internet, White Space Spectrum [WSJ]

Google is working on several ways to bring internet access to remote locations

  • Xbox
  • By Andrei Dobra
  • May 22nd, 2013
Xbox One Requires an Internet Connection Every 24 Hours

Xbox One Requires an Internet Connection Every 24 Hours

The next-gen console will still need to go online after a certain period of time

Syria Is Once Again Cut Off from the Internet and the World <em>UPDATE</em>

Syria Is Once Again Cut Off from the Internet and the World UPDATE

It's only been a week since the last major incident

Weekend Reading: The Necessity for Offline Play in PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720

Weekend Reading: The Necessity for Offline Play in PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720

Both next gen consoles need to allow owners to play their games offline

The Internet Is Back Up in Syria After Day-Long Outage

The Internet Is Back Up in Syria After Day-Long Outage

The entire country was cut off from the Internet for 19.5 hours

Google's Vint Cerf Explains the Interplanetary Internet

Google's Vint Cerf Explains the Interplanetary Internet

There's already an interplanetary network for communication

Download Little Snitch 3.1 for Mac OS X

Download Little Snitch 3.1 for Mac OS X

Use Automatic Profile Switching to assign networks to certain profiles

North Korea's Politics Didn't Prevent It from Amassing 2 Million 3G Users

North Korea's Politics Didn't Prevent It from Amassing 2 Million 3G Users

Odd when the country has almost no contact with the worldwide Internet

Xbox 720 Mandatory Internet Connection Requirement Isn't That "Draconian" – Report

Xbox 720 Mandatory Internet Connection Requirement Isn't That "Draconian" – Report

The console apparently still requires a permanent online connection

Turn Frustration Into Art with These Broken Image Picture Frames

Turn Frustration Into Art with These Broken Image Picture Frames

Web pages with broken image icons have never been this awesome

Broadband Speeds Drop in South Korea, Still the Fastest in the World in Q4

Broadband Speeds Drop in South Korea, Still the Fastest in the World in Q4

Asia dominates the top three, but Europe occupies the rest of the top 10

White Spaces Used to Bring Internet to Rural California

White Spaces Used to Bring Internet to Rural California

Cal.net is taking advantage of unused radio spectrum portions

ABC Sued over Soaps “All My Children” and “One Life to Live”

ABC Sued over Soaps “All My Children” and “One Life to Live”

Production company Prospect Park takes ABC to court for $25 million (€19.1 million)

Gigabyte Website Defaced by Hackers, Thoroughly

Gigabyte Website Defaced by Hackers, Thoroughly

Four sub-domains of Gigabyte Technology have been hacked

Microsoft Director Who Defended Mandatory Online Connection Quits

Microsoft Director Who Defended Mandatory Online Connection Quits

Adam Orth no longer works for Microsoft after the Twitter controversy

Weekend Reading: The Xbox 720 Mandatory Internet Connection

Weekend Reading: The Xbox 720 Mandatory Internet Connection

Such a "feature" could end up causing a lot of damage for Microsoft

  • Xbox
  • By Andrei Dobra
  • April 6th, 2013
Microsoft Apologizes over Xbox 720 Always-on Internet Comments

Microsoft Apologizes over Xbox 720 Always-on Internet Comments

The company still isn't talking about its next-gen console, however

 
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