Combined, Netflix, YouTube and other online video sites create about 46% of all Internet downloads during peak hours, according to Sandvine. The company forecasts that the category for on-demand entertainment will represent a combined 55 to 60% of peak traffic by the end of 2011. That shift has threatened cable and telecom companies, who [...]
April Fools’ Day is here again. A flurry of pranks has descended upon us via the Web. Some of them are quite smart and might just elicit a few chuckles from even the most cynical of us. Others are just plain goofy. We’re keeping tabs on the April Fools’ jokes for you below. Sift through [...]
The Web site and back-end database of Gawker was published on the Pirate Bay Bit Torrent site on Sunday. It included Gawker source code, information about a possible site redesign, instant messages between employees, and about 1.3 million user account passwords, usernames, and e-mail addresses. While they were encrypted using DES (Data Encryption Standard), simple [...]
Pac-Man is back. And to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic video arcade game, Google has unveiled its first-ever interactive doodle – a Pac-Man game that Web users can play straight from Google’s homepage. On May 22, 1980 the now-iconic Pac-Man game was released in Japan by Namco Bandai Games. Originally called Puck Man, [...]
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