Free mobile internet access in the UK can now be yours for the cost of a SIM card and a few minutes of your time. Samba, an MVNO that's just launched on Three's network, is offering ad-supported access that it says will amount to around 517 megabytes of monthly data in exchange for watching two...
Is time priceless?
Servers powering Amazon Web Services went down last Friday evening, causing outages for Netflix, Instagram, and Pinterest, and now the company has issued a thorough explanation of exactly what happened. An electrical spike in the company's...
Rdio, the ad-free music streaming service launched by Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis in 2010, has just gone live in Sweden and Finland. Originally only available in the US, Canada and Brazil, Rdio has been expanding into other territories over the course of this year — the company now has most of Western Europe covered, with Norway, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands being...
ICANN, the body that manages everything from IP addresses to top-level domains, will keep control of these key functions until at least 2015. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, part of the US Department of Commerce, announced on Monday that it had renewed the contract for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which gives ICANN high-level control over allocating IP addresses, administering the root name servers that underlie the Domain Name System, and assigning numbering resources among other things. There's more to ICANN than these systems, but they're vitally important for both it and the internet at large.
ICANN's current contract for the IANA expires September 30, 2012; the new one lasts until late 2015 with the option to renew for two further two-year terms. The non-profit company has managed...
ICANN maintains its hold on the internet's roots
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About once a quarter, Google trims back old and outdated products and services as part of a "spring cleaning" initiative, and today's the day that the company is announcing the latest cuts. For starters, Google is finally moving any content hosted...
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