Posts By: Lisa Pazzano

Facebook is Looking into Rideshare Possibilities

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Description: A patent application published Thursday reveals that Facebook (FB, Tech30) is looking to get into ridesharing. Source: CNN Money Date: January 28, 2016 People are already accustomed to creating, discovering and RSVPing to events on the social network. But Facebook’s event feature could soon get even more useful: The company is looking to help users… Read more »

Twitter exodus begins as five top executives depart overnight

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Description: Shakeup comes as new CEO Jack Dorsey tries to make Twitter exciting again. Source: Ars Technica Date: January 27, 2016 Late on Sunday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed that four of the company’s top executives will be departing. Additionally, the head of Vine—Twitter’s short-form video sharing service—is also leaving the company, to rejoin Google. The… Read more »

Hey Millennials, Your Mom Is About to Follow You on Snapchat

Posted by & filed under Analytics, millennials, Snapchat, Social Media, user habits.

Description: Though Snapchat has mostly been known as a disappearing message app teens love, the show isn’t for them. Gary Vaynerchuk, an early investor in the service, has been watching it for a while, and his bet is that Snapchat is finally aging up. Source: Wired Date: January 14, 2016 It’s part of a mounting body… Read more »

Netflix Viewers Don’t Care About the Company’s Proxy Crackdown

Posted by & filed under business models, ethics, Netflix, online business, proxy, streaming video.

Description: Thursday, Netflix announced that it plans to crack down on people using proxy servers to access content that isn’t licensed to be streamed in their country. Source: Motherboard Date: January 15, 2016 Due to the vagaries of licensing agreements with different content providers, not every country’s Netflix catalog is the same—in some cases, it’s not… Read more »

The Next Step for Online Gaming? Simulating the World.

Posted by & filed under Gaming, global networking, industry analysis, MMO, money, online business, online gaming, programming, virtualization.

Description: For all the legions of programmers coding the movement of individual blades of grass, and all the advances in processing power and VR, the simulated worlds of online gaming still behave nothing like the real one. Source: Wired Date: January 12, 2016 “In the last few years we’ve seen the abysmal failure of games attempting… Read more »

802.11ah WiFi will penetrate walls more easily and use less power

Posted by & filed under Hardware, Internet, networking, technology, wifi.

Description: Walls and floors can seriously limit the range of your wireless network, but the WiFi Alliance thinks they’ve come up with a fix. Their new 802.11ah standard aims to deliver superior penetration and power savings to boot. Source: Fossbytes Date: January 6, 2016 According to the WiFi Alliance, 802.11ah will also achieve nearly double the… Read more »

IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment

Posted by & filed under global networking, Internet, internet protocols, networking.

Description: According to Google’s statistics, on December 26, the world reached 9.98 percent IPv6 deployment, up from just under 6 percent a year earlier. Source: ars technica Date: January 3, 2016 Google measures IPv6 deployment by having a small fraction of their users execute a Javascript program that tests whether the computer in question can load… Read more »

Microsoft Is Terminating Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 on January 12th

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Description: Microsoft has announced that it’s turning off the support for Internet Explorer 8,9, and 10. Source: Fossbytes Date: January 6, 2016 On Tuesday, a new “End of Life” patch will go live that will ping Internet Explorer users asking them to upgrade their browsers. This “End of Life” patch means that these older Internet Explorer… Read more »