By the time you read this, you might have already heard or discovered that Wikipedia, Mozilla, Reddit, and many other huge sites went dark last January 18 with the intent of raising awareness about US Congress’s highly regressive internet blocking legislation. The House’s version, SOPA, is making headlines too, but the Senate version, PIPA, is ...
I am a huge fan of Skype. I prefer it over Yahoo and MSN. But not until recently when for some reasons my Skype has upgraded itself to 5.0. I am not exactly sure how it miraculously happened but since then I noticed that my laptop would crash whenever I initiate a video call. It ...
I blogged about PayBox last December and I said that I have reasons to believe that pseudo online payment service is a scam. This afternoon, I decided to check that website again and to my surprise I’ve found out that it has rebranded itself as VirtaPay. As many savvy internet marketers would have noticed when ...
Wikipedia turned 10 on Saturday, January 15, 2011 — a decade of operation for the free encyclopedia built largely by volunteers on the Web. And, just as anyone would hope for a 10-year-old, Wikipedia is still a bit idealistic, a vestige of the Internet’s early free and heroic days, writes Timothy Garton Ash for The ...
Will Facebook shutdown? Internet faux news site Weekly World News posted a story that horrified the Facebook users across the world. The story in Weekly World News site read that California based social networking website Facebook will shut down on March 15, 2011, because it has become too stressful to manage for the Founder Mark ...