Google announced the acquisition of New Mexico-based Titan Aerospace, the maker of solar-powered drones that are intended to fly nonstop for about 5 years. Titan Aerospace with roughly 20 employees would continue…
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Around the world in 22 days: Google’s Loon Ibis-167 sets a new record
Google’s increasingly popular Project Loon Ibis-167 balloon has just finished its first lap of journey around the world in 22 days connecting remote places to the world of Internet. The balloon has…
Facebook’s solar powered drones to connect remote areas with Internet
Facebook recently announced its plans to use specially designed satellites and solar powered drones to connect even the most remote parts of the world with internet. The social networking giant on Thursday…
ISPs should give customers what they promise says consumer group Which?
After a new research report revealed that UK broadband service providers are not delivering broadband speeds and connection quality they promise their customers while signing up for the service, the consumer group…
New internet search engine ‘ChinaSo’ launched in China
Some of China’s leading news organizations on Friday launched Chinaso.com, a new Chinese-language Internet search engine. Operated by ChinaSo IT Corporation the new search engine is founded by China’s seven main news…
1 out of 10 Americans believes HTML is a STD claims recent study
In a recent study by coupons website Vouchercloud.net conducted to gauge how knowledgeable Americans are when it comes to tech terms, it was found that one in every ten Americans that is…
Facebook in acquisition talks with Drone maker Titan Aerospace
Social networking giant, Facebook, is said to be in acquisition talks with Titan Aerospace, a Texas based solar powered drone manufacturing company, with an aim of using its high-altitude autonomous aircraft to…
Venezuela facing media and internet shutdown
Just when Venezuela is facing a complete social unrest, the government has tightened its grip on major media outlets and internet providers to put a full stop on incriminating information by removing…
Internet censorship around the world
Right to information and open Internet are privileges that not every citizen of the world enjoy today. Depending on the region you live in, there will be some sort of censorship or…
Google working on 10Gbps internet
Google’s obsession for speed is clear from the fact that the company is working hard to boast its speed to up of 10 gigabits per second. Patrick Pichette, Google’s chief financial officer,…
Researchers develop new algorithm to fix broken links on websites
Have you ever come across scenarios wherein links within your websites have apparently broken after an upgrade or some of the links have stopped working suddenly and are returning 404 – page…
BT Infinity customers face mysterious connection glitch issues
BT is receiving numerous complaints from its Infinity customers about being abruptly disconnected from the fibre broadband network when using the telco’s Home Hub 5 wireless router. Infinity users have been posting…
Akamai: China leapfrogs Indonesia as largest source of attack traffic
China has surpassed Indonesia to become the largest source of attack traffic for the third quarter of 2013 according to latest State of the Internet report from Akamai. The report notes that…
New project dubbed Bitcloud aims to decentralise the Internet
Bitcloud, a new project that makes use of a highly customised version of Bitcoin protocol, not only aims to create a mesh network that will act as a shadow to the current…
Verizon outs first transparency report; 386 data requests from UK
As promised, US Telco Verizon has released its first transparency report for 2013 revealing that it received over 320,000 data requests from local, state or federal law enforcement agencies in the US…