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Word-Wide Web Launches

in News on December 17, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Language analysts, sifting through two centuries of words in the millions of books in Google Inc.’s growing digital library, found a new way to track the arc of fame, the effect of censorship, the spread of inventions and the explosive growth of new terms in the English-speaking world.

Still Changing Passwords Today? Silverpop Attack May Be Why.

in Enterprise on December 15, 2010 at 7:40 am PT

The hacking incident that affected McDonald’s appears to have wider implications for users of scores of other Web sites, and it may be connected, though indirectly, to the weekend attack on Gawker.

Coming Soon: Relatively Fast Broadband With "Unnecessary Superlative Boost"™

in News on October 22, 2008 at 4:31 pm PT

With U.S. broadband speeds lagging far behind European and Asian countries, Comcast is finally doing its part to bring the country’s lousy broadband Internet services into parity with those of other industrialized nations. You know, like Iceland. Or South Korea.

Coming Soon: Relatively Fast Broadband With “Unnecessary Superlative Boost”™

in News on October 22, 2008 at 4:31 pm PT

With U.S. broadband speeds lagging far behind European and Asian countries, Comcast is finally doing its part to bring the country’s lousy broadband Internet services into parity with those of other industrialized nations. You know, like Iceland. Or South Korea.