Not many know that Apple had a \"third founder\" who gave up his stake for $800 (it would\'ve been worth at least $17 billion today). Or that Cisco was named for San Francisco. Or that Twitter used to be called twttr? Let\'s take a stroll through the A to Z of computing trivia, Neatorama style!
A new Internet protocol designed for interplanetary transmissions is bringing its delay-tolerant magic to Earth. Google\'s Android does a lot more these days than just smart phones and nifty mobile gadgets. An Internet pioneer is using the platform to launch a interplanetary Internet protocol on Earth that could harden wireless networks against....
Beginning Nov. 15, Verizon subscribers looking to get out of their smart-phone contracts early will pay $350 for the privilege. That early-termination fee is double the current one, but Verizon insists is justified because of the higher prices of today\'s phones.
Android 2.0 (formerly codenamed Eclair) is the latest evolution of the mobile OS developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. This version is a chunky upgrade, superseding the current Android 1.6 software (dubbed Donut), which was actually considered \"a minor platform release.\"
With support from the three largest BitTorrent sites and many other well known file-sharing partners, the VODO project offers a novel distribution platform for indie filmmakers. Today VODO presents its second release, the world premiere of In Guantanamo, a critical film about the U.S. detainment facility in Cuba.
Here\'s the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document, as it appeared on Wikileaks today. It amounts to policy laundering at its finest -– that the United States is pushing the world to require ISPs to adopt “graduated response” policies that amount to terminating internet service of repeat, copyright offenders.
Why is the FCC still funding rural phone companies in areas where unsubsidized cable operators offer IP telephone service? The cable industry is proposing a sweeping measure to simplify the nation\'s subsidy system for rural phone service providers
YouTube has announced it is to partner Will Ferrell\'s comedy website Funny Or Die, offering up a channel featuring a boatload of the site\'s comedic content.\\r\\rFunny Or Die has been around since 2007 and is the brainchild of Will Ferrell and writer Adam McKay. The site has garnered something of a cult following.
The MySpace social media network’s traffic has dropped so much that it will fail to satisfy a minimum traffic level crucial to parent company News Corp’s three-year $900 million advertising deal with Google, inked in 2006, that made Google the exclusive search advertiser on MySpace — then the world’s most popular social network.
An early prototype of Microsoft’s Project Natal makes the once astonishing Wii seem crude. Microsoft and Sony’s new gaming consoles are bound to take a greater share of the massive videogame market.