Monday, April 30, 2012
Not all Web browsers are created equal. Some are faster; some are more versatile; others are especially secure. We tested six leading browsers to learn where each one excels…and fails. By Megan Geuss Illustration by Papercut.fr Everyone needs a Web browser, but with so many different ones available, deciding which one is best for you can be hard. Are you...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
After 244 years in print, the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica will be discontinued, but the encyclopedia will live on and grow in the myriad digital forms which have been popular with millions for years. In announcing the end of the print set, in March 2012, the company also stressed the wide diversity of their product line today, which includes not just reference works but curriculum and...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Since the revised contract was signed between Verisign and ICANN to maintain and manage the .COM registry in 2006, the price for the most popular TLD in the world has increased consistently over the past few years. And on January 14th, .COM prices will rise once again by a further $1.51, and .NET prices by $1.55. With this contract, Verisign has the authority to increase .COM prices by 15%...
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Gordon: The world's first supercomputer built with flash storage rather than spinning hard disks (Photo: Alan Decker) Supercomputers aren't what they used to be. The Chinese are building a supercomputer with their own microprocessors, shunning American chip giants Intel and AMD. The Spanish are building one with cellphone chips. And this week, the San Diego Supercomputer Center...
Friday, December 2, 2011
We are proud to announce our new look! Although all server functions are working correctly, system emails prior to 12/01/2011 may have broken links as the new client area directory has changed. To view customer information including support tickets, account information, invoices, etc. visit www.SkytecHosting.com/members.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Google+ is opening up. The service that the enthusiastic and curious once begged to join is now open to anyone with a Google account, except those unfortunate Apps users (what's up with that?). Users new and old also get to play with plenty of new desktop and mobile toys to remind them what was exciting about G+ in the first place. New APIs even let developers in on the fun. So what's new?...
Monday, September 19, 2011
Researchers at Intel debuted an experimental processor at the company's developer forum this week, which could lead to devices with significantly lower energy consumption. The chip - codenamed "Claremont" - is known as a near-threshold voltage processor, which allows transistors to operate at super-low, near "threshold" voltages to increase efficiency and decrease energy...
Thursday, August 25, 2011
The scary thing about a clickjacking attack is there isn't any foolproof way of detecting when it is happening to you. Through clever hackery, some dastardly villain somewhere will show you a website that looks harmless, but they can use it to steal your clicks, making you do something drastically different than what you think you're doing. Clickjacking, put simply, is when a button, image,...
Monday, August 22, 2011
Chinese researchers from Beijing's Tsinghua University have revealed plans to divert the asteroid Apophis - which may well collide with Earth in a couple decades - by smashing a kamikaze solar sail into it. The asteroid, 99942 Apophis to give it its full title, is a 46 million tonne, 1,600-foot-wide chunk of space rock that's currently hurtling its way towards our planet. In 2029 it...
Friday, August 19, 2011
A German state would very much like for its residents to keep their fingers--and other assorted pointers or cursors--away from Facebook's "Like" button. The state of Schleswig-Holstein has ordered all government offices to remove the button from their Web presence and shut down any Facebook "fan" pages, on the grounds that these things violate German and European data privacy...
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