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According to the China Internet Network Information Center, at the end of 2012 the population of China with access to the Internet had surpassed the half a billion mark. In total, some 513 million people now access the web in some form across China.
Even so, Chinas uptake of the Internet is well below the U.S. and its only the sheer number of people there that makes the half a billion figure possible. Internet penetration in the U.S. has reached 78.2%, where as China only enjoys 38.3 percent.
Google’s Fiber internet service has been turned on in a neighborhood just south of the Stanford University campus and first reports are that the internet service is nothing short of amazing. Download speeds on the network were up to 300 Mbps, with an upload speed of 150 Mbps. Kansas City is the only other place to receive Google Fiber. It’s part of a grand experiment involving as many as half a million homes to improve ways to build the network, see what apps people might invent and how it would change people’s lives. The best part of the Fiber Internet is that Google is offering the connection for free!
Google has changed the way people search on the internet, now it’s changing the way some people surf the web. Hundr
The UK government says it hopes to “make the internet 100 times faster” by kicking off a £7.2m research project dubbed “Photonics HyperHighway”.
David Willetts, minister for universities and science, announced the scheme during a speech at Southampton uni earlier today.
“The internet is fundamental to our lives and we use it for a huge range of activities – from doing the weekly food shop to catching up with friends and family,” he said. “T
Tonight, at a New York City launch event, Sony unveiled their Internet TV products. They are powered by Google TV, just like Logitech’s Revue, and come in two different versions. There are four televisions ranging from $599 to $1399 and in 24-, 32-, 40-, and 46-inch sizes. The other option is a Blu-ray player that will sell for $399.
The Sony Internet TV will be the first television with integrated Google TV. In this respect it’s like a connected television but Sony made it clear that this is different from the competition. First of all, both Sony products are powered by Intel Atom processors. Sec
Internet spamsters are often nigh-artistic with the fraudulent tales they weave—an exiled prince! Hidden treasure!—but scamming them can be even more creative. The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal tells one revenge story of a conman duped into carving wooden sculptures.
When anti-spam hero Mike Berry received an obviously false email promise of African millions, he resisted the urge to roll his eyes and delete—and instead strung the criminal into an unwitting career in art. Sort of.
To keep the spammer’s interest—and waste a ton of his time—Berry upped the lie ante, claiming to represent an art gallery that was looking for submissions (and offering a scholarship—a nice little reverse-con in itself). The spammer