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Online shopping during Christmas above all expectations
The rush of American consumers to online shops in the last days before Christmas apparently surprised the traders . Despite numerous analyisis and statistics, it seems that companies like Amazon and Wal -Mart, and courier service such as UPS as well, failed to accurately predict the amount of sales that will occur this year.
$100 million investment for storage service Box
Box, one of the most popular service for storing data in the cloud, has collected about $100 million of fresh investment capital, according to company's CEO Aaron Levie. In search for investors they turned to Europe, Japan, Australia and Latin America, since these are regions where they are planning to expand their business. After collecting this amount, the value of the company is estimated at about $2 billion.
Google spreads their servers
According to research by the University of Southern California, Google has in the past year has dramatically increased the number of locations around the world from which serves queries to its search engine.
Google Chrome 30 hits the streets
One of the most popular web browser, Google Chrome, just became available in his 30th edition. In this update, the company said, will improve the experience of browsing the web both on Android and the desktop version.
Verizon Wants to Replace Net Neutrality with Paid Censorship
Verizon and a few other broadband companies are out to alter the way you view content on the internet. Ever since the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) put regulations in place to prevent broadband providers from block, throttling or altering content as it passes over their networks (2010) these companies have been fighting back. They argue that the regulation prevent internet expansion and investment. They would like to be able to broker deals with websites and content providers to provide them with different levels of access at different price scales. The FCC feels this type of behavior is anti-consumer and wants to make sure that all content is treated equally.
The Fight Against Child Pornography Hits the BitTorret World
The fight against child pornography was announced earlier this week, and British Prime Minister called for the cooperation of internet service providers, operators of wireless networks and the authors of a web browsers to help filter the content of child abuse.
Firefox 22 Now on the Net
Mozilla has released a new version of their Internet browser, which should bring a number of improvements related to performance and support for Internet standards.
Eyes in the Sky
Satellites are all over the place, used for everything from communication to research to photography. No one really knows how many of these are pointed downward at the Earth, collecting visual data from virtually everywhere, or just how detailed the images they receive are.
Behold: A Newer, Better Firefox
Recently the very popular Firefox browser underwent a new update, bringing with it many new features and benefits. The new Firefox 21 Beta is the latest release from the Mozilla Foundation, and is an open-source, free browser.
Mozilla Firefox 21 officially published
Mozilla has released Firefox 21, fresh edition of the popular Internet browser. Published versions are intended for PCs and Android devices, and are bringing only minor changes in comparison to the predecessor.