Google are experimenting with several improvements to the Transmisson Control Protocol (TCP) to make a faster Internet. The people working with this goes by the name of "Make The Web Faster Team" and they are currently looking into four potential improvements to the existing protocol. 1. Increase TCP initial congestion window to 10 ... Continue Reading

Carol Bartz, CEO of the internet company Yahoo!, was fired on Tuesday, after less than three years as head of the company. In a brief email to her employees, Bartz says that she was fired over the phone. "I am very sad to tell you that I've just been fired over ... Continue Reading

It's no wonder people get addicted to the Internet, especially if they have a lot of different interests. With so much information, news, communication and entertainment, it is easy to get carried away. To put it all in perspective, "Go-Globe" made an illustration to give an example of some of the ... Continue Reading

Although Osama bin Laden was hiding in a house with no Internet connection, he managed to send and receive lots of emails. The solution was simple but time consuming. He used a flash drive, a courier and different Internet cafes. He just wrote his emails on his offline computer and saved ... Continue Reading

According to new statistics released on Wednesday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the country had more than 457 million Internet users by the end of 2010, growing by more than 73 million users from the previous year. Despite the high number of Internet users, the growth in China ... Continue Reading

The security company Kaspersky has studied the amount of threats discovered on the web for the second quarter of 2010. The security company Kaspersky Lab has released a study in which they have measured the number of threats on the internet during the second quarter of this year. During this period, ... Continue Reading

Anyone who surfs, creates content or search the web leaves digital footprints. It is a good idea to track them, and clean them. First of all, an important note: The internet never forgets! Those who want to make sure they don't appear in unwanted contexts must delete any digital footprints themselves. While ... Continue Reading

The gaming-on-demand website OnLive Game Service opens in June, after eight years of development. The developers would like to make consoles obsolete, by renting out even the largest games directly from the Internet. On the webservice OnLive gamers will be able to play the latest titles without investing in a new ... Continue Reading

Do you use Windows and Internet Explorer as the default browser? Then it's time to make a choice. In March Microsoft releases an update that allows the user to select the browser used as default on the computer. The update is now being tested internally at Microsoft. The ... Continue Reading

At least according to most of the experts asked by the Pew Internet and American Life Project in their fourth survey on the Internet. "Three out of four experts believe that our use of the internet expands and develops human intelligence, and two out of three believe ... Continue Reading

Facebook seems to be rolling out its new site design to at least some people outside the company, although none of us at TechCrunch have yet to be graced with its presence. The new design is “exactly” like the screenshots that GigaOm posted on December 27, says one source. Applications are ... Continue Reading

// I’m determined to learn computer programming in my lifetime. Yes, it’s all a foreign language to me, but I so admire the work that developers do. I think they should receive Emmy awards or something. Many of them certainly don’t get the recognition (or financial backing) they ... Continue Reading