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Large numbers of Chinese are going online to watch the Olympics while at work as employers prevent them from watching the events…
Hulu, the online video site that came out of nowhere no more than 5 months ago, may be poised to dominate the online video sector altogether. YouTube has been the reigning king of this area of the web for years, but it may be getting ready to see the first legitimate threat to that reign.
Sporting a Digg t-shirt from her CBS News office chair, anchor Katie Couric addressed Digg.com from YouTube. She prodded the geek-chic crowd there for questions to ask at the Democratic National Convention.
Firefox 3, which set a one-day record for downloads recently, has been reconfigured in a way that's setting off alarms for webmasters who haven't renewed their SSL certificates. As the US Army just learned, Firefox won't bring up sites with self-assigned and/or expired certificates. At least, not without some extensive hoop-jumping. If you're a merchant you should know that an SSL certificate encrypts data transmissions…
Intel and Yahoo have announced plans to introduce widgets to television via set-top boxes.The application is called the Widget Channel and will allow viewers to use rich Internet applications designed for TV while watching programs. The channel will be powered by the Yahoo Widget Engine.
Mobile this and mobile that - the news about Google and cell phone-related stuff just won't stop. Consumers should benefit, however, as Google is now asking the security community to make sure its Android operating system remains safe.
