China online population exceeds USA population!
Chinese media has reported that the country now has more people connected to the web than there are people in United States.
The reports claim that China now has 338 million web users.
China is already the largest market in terms of people connected to the internet.
They are likely to [...]
Sprint 4G coming to Las Vegas next month
Sprint Nextel has announced that they would start offering their next generation 4G services in Las Vegas.
Vegas citizens would be the first in the country to experience the 4G services from Sprint.
Sprint is promising speeds of more than 10Mbps and an average of 3 to 6Mbps.
They [...]
Yahoo starts offering their new homepage to interested users
If you visit Yahoo.com, you are likely to see their offer for you to checkout their new updated homepage.
The new Yahoo homepage features less clutter. It is also much more customizable.
You can add your own favourite sites on the interface for quick access…
You also get the [...]
Clearwire WiMax coming to Las Vegas
Clearwire is all set to launch their WiMax powered wireless broadband services in Las Vegas.
The launch would take place later this month on July 21.
They have already launched this service in three other cities in the country: Portland, Oregon and Atlanta.
The company claims that their Clear branded [...]
European Commission: Internet censorship in China is unacceptable
European Commission has said in a statement that they believe that the Chinese government’s internet censorship attempts are unacceptable.
The commission said in a statement: “The aim of this internet filter, contrary to what Chinese authorities contend, is clearly to censor internet and limit freedom of expression. We therefore [...]
Carol Bartz: Yahoo would get its MOJO back!
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has announced that the company would soon get back on track.
She practically said that Yahoo would get its mojo back.
The company has been struggling since the past couple of years as they have failed to compete with Google in the search engine [...]
China to work on cleaning up porn on their Chinese web search services
US based search engine industry giant Google has announced that they are going to work extra hard on cleaning up porn from their search services in China.
This comes after reports that China has again blocked certain Google services due to easy access [...]
Britain plans to have universal broadband by 2012
Britain has announced that they are aiming to have universal broadband access throughout the country by 2012.
The government is planning to implement a tax to fund the establishment of this broadband network.
This plan also requires BBC to share some of the funding it receives from the British [...]
Clearwire Communications launches WiMax in Atlanta
Clearwire Communications has announced the launch of their WiMax wireless broadband service in Atlanta.
Atlanta has now become the largest market in America to receive this high speed wireless internet service from the company.
Clearwire has plans to launch its services in 80 markets by the end of next year targeting [...]
China requires PCs to ship with web filtering software!
Wall Street Journal has reported that the Chinese government has now made it compulsory for all machines sold in the country to ship with web filtering software.
This software is to be designed to block a pre-configured list of web services. Customers would not get access to the [...]
