This is so whacked I couldn’t believe my own eyes when I first read about it. I don’t mind EU at all, I actually prefer to be in the European Union and all that crap, but every now and then something comes along that makes you wonder how stoned those law-making people really are and … Read more →
YouTube has been offering regular 720p HD videos (1280×720) for a while now, if the uploaded video was in HD as well, of course. Most dedicated video camcorders today records in 1080i or 1080p resolution and next week YouTube will be able to display those as well – all the way up to 1080p. Billy … Read more →
Google recently launched a beta version of Google Maps Navigation. As the name hints, it’s based on Google Maps but it’s also heavily updated with new stuff because of the “navigation”-part of the name. At first, the software will only be available for Android 2.0 but it will be free and ad-sponsored. The advertisements are … Read more →
Newshosting just launched a brand new website. Easier navigation, cleaner content, and a great video tutorial series! The step-by-step videos take online visitors through the process of setting up a newsreader client to browse, download, and post to newsgroups. With lightning fast speed and unmatched retention, Newshosting provides Usenet access that is truly world class. … Read more →
A new report from Symantec/MessageLabs reveals that 95.6% of all e-mails sent to a Danish recipient, is spam. In the US it increased to 91.8%, Canada to 91.2% and 91.7% in the UK. The global average for Q3 2009 was 88.1% compared with 81% for Q3 2008. There’s many seasonal spam mails nowadays, taking advantage … Read more →
A new feature from Google Labs was just released and is now available to the public, it’s called Similar Images. At first it works just like regular Google image search, but when you click “similar images” on an image, you will see..… *drum roll*… similar images! For instance, an initial image search for “apple” will … Read more →
Google Wave has been getting a lot of buzz in the world of tech lately, as more and more people are getting invitations and access to join Google Wave and try out the preview version. Mozilla, the team behind applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird, now introduced their “alternative” to Google Wave. It’s called Raindrop. … Read more →
Microsoft announced having agreed a deal with Twitter on providing real-time searches in Bing from Twitter. A few hours later, Google announced pretty much the same deal. Using Bing or Google, users should be able to search in Twitter messages, even just a few moments after they have been “tweeted”. Microsoft already has a test … Read more →
A lot of great news and interesting products came out of Apple in Cupertino over the last day or so, I’m not even sure I actually managed to grab it all – but I did write a few summaries about what I found interesting. Note that the links below leads to my Apple-related blog, ApplePatio.com, … Read more →
Apple once again delivered a great quarterly result by breaking their own record, again. The turnover for Q3 2009 was 9.87 billion dollars with a profit of 1.67 billion dollars. An increase in turnover of almost 2 billion dollars from 7.9 billion dollars compared to the same period last time. Profit increased by 410 million … Read more →
The company Arbor Networks, in cooperation with University of Michigan, has created a report called “2009 Internet Observatory Report“. In the report, they conclude that after having studied over 256 exabytes worth of traffic (I’ll explain how much that is, in just a bit…), that half of that traffic comes from just 150 companies. Just … Read more →
The latest study from ComCast into the US search engine market shows that Bing only saw a 0.1% increase from 9.3% to 9.4% from August to September, while Google increased by 0.3% to 69.9%. It’s mostly Yahoo taking the biggest hit on the risings from Bing and Google as they saw a decrease of 0.5% … Read more →
This is some pretty cool stuff. A team of scientists from the University of Missouri reports a break-through in battery technology. The scientists have created a battery with the size of a small coin, able to contain a million times as much capacity than a regular battery and last for hundreds of years. It contain … Read more →
For almost one hour, between 21:45 and 22:43 CET, Monday evening, all Swedish domains (.se) were inaccessible for all Internet users. An investigation afterwards revealed that a tiny human error was the reason for the “crash”. A routine maintenance script was missing a dot when updating the Swedish Top Level Domain (TLD), causing all Swedish … Read more →
Firefox 3.6 beta was supposed to be made available for download today or yesterday, but so far I haven’t been able to find a download link for it – I can only assume that it might come out tomorrow instead? Firefox 3.6 comes with bug fixes as well as some interesting improvements such as a … Read more →
Lufthansa announced yesterday that they will be installing equipment for mobile broadband in 50 of their long-distance airplanes. Passengers will be able to logon and connect to the Internet throughout the entire cabin, just like you would with any other wireless hot-spot. There’s also access for devices supporting GRPS, which is a rather old and … Read more →