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Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers
In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...
Traffic to Olympics-related Web sites, August 8-11, 2008
Name August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 Yahoo Olympics 1,477 3,324 2,839 5,253 NBC Olympics 2,664 4,008 3,264 4,560 AOL Olympics 395 1,010 1,205 1,192 Beijing2008.cn 429 780 581 607 New York Times Olympics 341 466 301 482...
Google, Apple surge in customer satisfaction rating
Google and Apple were among the big winners in the University of Michigan's second quarter American Customer Satisfaction Index. The index, released Tuesday, found that overall satisfaction among consumers fell 0.1 percent to 75.1 on a 100 point scale. Among the key technology movers...
Want to know what key political players are reading?
This is an interesting idea -- Google's now sharing with the world what is catching attention from presidential candidates and political commentators. Political news isn't hard to find online -- it's basically everywhere. Popular news featured on Google News is often political in nature, and there is certainly...
MSE rises like a phoenix from the beta ashes
Knock knock. Who's there? A shameless self-marketing campaign, trying to throw anything Microsoft related your way. Well, not any more anyway, as the Microsoft Student Experience has been thrown out of beta with golden depth charges. The website now looks what it actually...
Top US domains by traffic in June 2008
Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 5.92% 2. www.myspace.com 5.05% 3. mail.yahoo.com 5.00% 4. www.yahoo.com 4.09% 5. mail.live.com 2.44% 6. www.ebay.com 1.73% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.62% 8. www.msn.com 1.24% 9. www.facebook.com 1.19% ...
Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact of Olympics video streaming
Being able to watch most of the 2008 Summer Olympics streaming over the Internet has been exciting for users, but not so much for businesses and IT departments. Hear CIO Ira Levy explain how his organization used a two-pronged approach of education and technology to limit the effect of Olympic...
BBC News educates you as you read the news
I couldn't think of a fancy title. Had I done so I would have called it "Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Book of Sudoku"; nevertheless it'll do. After my daily hourly in some cases browse through the BBC News website to quash my horrid addiction to...
Video commenting hitting the information highway
Bubble Comment is exactly that, a way to comment on a website in your own little bubble. It's hardly new in terms of allowing people to leave comments, but as I've previously written, webcams do seem to be the social tool of the modern generation. This new...
Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...
Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught
What do you do when your country is under attack by Russia and your government's Web sites pummeled by an alleged cyber attack? If you're Georgia you turn to Google, specifically Blogger. To get its message out, the government of Georgia is posting updates to Blogger and...
Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
It's not often when a piece of technology impresses me enough that I do the "wow" thing when I'm using it. But the Silverlight streaming video implementation on NBCOlympics.com is truly awesome, even if I am forced into using Internet Explorer to watch it (EDIT: It...
EIC podcast: Olympics IT; LinuxWorld; Google
On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the Olympic-sized IT effort behind NBC and Microsoft's web site. We also talk about LinuxWorld and Google's opt-out moves this week. On the Olympics, it's showtime for Microsoft's Silverlight and the IT effort behind NBCOlympics.com. Will...
I went to Moscone Center and all I got was this stupid T-Shirt
Where's the hot chicks? Yeah you heard it, Summer LinuxWorld Expo sucked. Again. No, I didn't go this year. In fact, I haven't gone in two years. So how can I say it sucked? Because everyone who I know...
Google has Olympic fever
Since Google is spending a lot of time and money making sure they are the number one search engine in every country, or at least trying to, it's no surprise that Google has been looking at the Olympics as a huge opportunity that can't be missed. According...
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News items, Blog posts relating to Web Technology
Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers
In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...
Traffic to Olympics-related Web sites, August 8-11, 2008
Name August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 Yahoo Olympics 1,477 3,324 2,839 5,253 NBC Olympics 2,664 4,008 3,264 4,560 AOL Olympics 395 1,010 1,205 1,192 Beijing2008.cn 429 780 581 607 New York Times Olympics 341 466 301 482...
Google, Apple surge in customer satisfaction rating
Google and Apple were among the big winners in the University of Michigan's second quarter American Customer Satisfaction Index. The index, released Tuesday, found that overall satisfaction among consumers fell 0.1 percent to 75.1 on a 100 point scale. Among the key technology movers...
Want to know what key political players are reading?
This is an interesting idea -- Google's now sharing with the world what is catching attention from presidential candidates and political commentators. Political news isn't hard to find online -- it's basically everywhere. Popular news featured on Google News is often political in nature, and there is certainly...
MSE rises like a phoenix from the beta ashes
Knock knock. Who's there? A shameless self-marketing campaign, trying to throw anything Microsoft related your way. Well, not any more anyway, as the Microsoft Student Experience has been thrown out of beta with golden depth charges. The website now looks what it actually...
Top US domains by traffic in June 2008
Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 5.92% 2. www.myspace.com 5.05% 3. mail.yahoo.com 5.00% 4. www.yahoo.com 4.09% 5. mail.live.com 2.44% 6. www.ebay.com 1.73% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.62% 8. www.msn.com 1.24% 9. www.facebook.com 1.19% ...
Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact of Olympics video streaming
Being able to watch most of the 2008 Summer Olympics streaming over the Internet has been exciting for users, but not so much for businesses and IT departments. Hear CIO Ira Levy explain how his organization used a two-pronged approach of education and technology to limit the effect of Olympic...
BBC News educates you as you read the news
I couldn't think of a fancy title. Had I done so I would have called it "Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Book of Sudoku"; nevertheless it'll do. After my daily hourly in some cases browse through the BBC News website to quash my horrid addiction to...
Video commenting hitting the information highway
Bubble Comment is exactly that, a way to comment on a website in your own little bubble. It's hardly new in terms of allowing people to leave comments, but as I've previously written, webcams do seem to be the social tool of the modern generation. This new...
Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...
Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught
What do you do when your country is under attack by Russia and your government's Web sites pummeled by an alleged cyber attack? If you're Georgia you turn to Google, specifically Blogger. To get its message out, the government of Georgia is posting updates to Blogger and...
Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
It's not often when a piece of technology impresses me enough that I do the "wow" thing when I'm using it. But the Silverlight streaming video implementation on NBCOlympics.com is truly awesome, even if I am forced into using Internet Explorer to watch it (EDIT: It...
EIC podcast: Olympics IT; LinuxWorld; Google
On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the Olympic-sized IT effort behind NBC and Microsoft's web site. We also talk about LinuxWorld and Google's opt-out moves this week. On the Olympics, it's showtime for Microsoft's Silverlight and the IT effort behind NBCOlympics.com. Will...
I went to Moscone Center and all I got was this stupid T-Shirt
Where's the hot chicks? Yeah you heard it, Summer LinuxWorld Expo sucked. Again. No, I didn't go this year. In fact, I haven't gone in two years. So how can I say it sucked? Because everyone who I know...
Google has Olympic fever
Since Google is spending a lot of time and money making sure they are the number one search engine in every country, or at least trying to, it's no surprise that Google has been looking at the Olympics as a huge opportunity that can't be missed. According...
Newsfeed display by CaRP
