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How the Internet changed the face of online gaming
Do you like online gambling? And do you know about how and since when this industry developed? When did the first online gambling websites appear? That’s what we want to tell you about in our article.
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Make the Home an Information and Entertainment Center
For millions of Americans, their homes are their castles. Whether they own or rent, there is nothing like coming home after a long day of work or school, only to sit down and relax with a television, desktop or laptop, mobile device etc.
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LA may be first truly high-speed city with plan for citywide gigabit speeds for homes and businesses, Google Fiber not considered yet
The city of Los Angeles is prepping up for a big move in the internet space. The goal is to offer all businesses the essentially the entire Los Angeles populous high speed broadband via fiber. It’s been reported that the City Council of LA voted to move what’s called the RFP (request for proposals) draft,…
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Canada to get its first Google Fibre like ultra-fast internet service
Geeks across the globe compare the download speed of their ISPs just like petrolheads compare the 0-62 time of their racers. The current undisputed champion of the arena is Google Fiber which provides download speeds upto 1Gigabit per second at select locations in the US. A new Vancouver based small start-up called OneGigabit, launched last…
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Researchers claim noise-cancelling technology can boost Internet speeds to 400 times that of Google Fiber
The Internet is never fast enough on your local terminal. There’s always so much faster that you can go. What’s really unnerving is that companies are doing their best to ensure that consumers are spoiled with the finest speeds that deliver the world of Internet content to them quicker than ever. Google Fiber has been…
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3G internet service goes Kaput only a month after being introduced in North Korea
North Korea, a name synonymous with draconian rules and infamous secrecy, has once again flexed its muscles to gag access to the internet. The country pulled the plug on its 3G network just a month after it was made available to tourists. The service was started on 22nd February, contrary to years of ban on…
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Shanghai sets 2015 target of becoming Asia’s fastest Internet city
Shanghai is blessed to have China Telecom placing such high hopes on its shoulders. The company claimed that the city currently holds the record for best Internet speeds in all of China. It further plans to double the 32Mbps bandwidth that the city currently enjoys, by the end of this year. ‘According to the Ministry…
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Indian township connected with 1 gigabit per second Internet
When folks from Kochi, in India, read about the 1 Gigabit per second connectivity made to available to the people of Kansas City, they wouldn’t in their wildest dreams gauge the possibility of enjoying the service in their very own home town. It so comes to pass that the humble folk in the state of…
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Samsung converts unused solar-powered containers into high-tech schools in Africa
Education has always been a problematic challenge in the most remote locations of Africa. It’s a problem that has been well analyzed and finally simplified by none other than Samsung. The company has initiated the Internet Schools Programme, which will make use of ‘old shipping solar-powered renovated containers’ to connect them to the Internet and…
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The next Internet backbones – 1 Petabit per second demoed
Japan’s telecom major NTTDoCoMo and its partners managed a 1 petabit per second data transfer over a 12-core optical fiber 52.4 km long. 1 Petabit is 1000 Terabytes, so that is a lot of data. [Slashdot]
