Well of remaining IPv4 address blocks a step closer to running dry
Yesterday, APNIC received two more /8s from IANA, reducing the IANA global pool to just 12 /8s—5.4 percent of the usable IPv4 address space. APNIC is one of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) that...
Google Search Appliance gains support for cloud services
Google is quickly becoming known for its cloud-based apps and services among enterprise users. Before Google Apps, however, there was Google Search Appliance (GSA), a search product that allows companies to pull in results ......
Windows browsers benchmarked: October 2010 edition
Our readers enjoy our browser market share stories, but sometimes complain in the comments that we don't do enough to compare the actual browsers. We've therefore decided to do some performance tests for the top five browsers (s...
Half off! France "fights piracy" by subsidizing digital music
France has decided to try something... novel. The country will attempt to prop up the digital music industry by subsidizing legal music consumption by young people. Under the initiative, citizens between 12 and 25 years old will...
Welcome to the social: Bing uses Facebook friends to power search
During a live event at Microsoft's headquarters today, Bing and Facebook announced that Facebook's social data is being added to Bing. In an optional Facebook module, Bing now shows what has been "Liked" by your friends and offe...
Google funds 6,000MW mid-Atlantic wind farms, transmission grid
Citizens, worry no longer about how the US will accomplish ambitious renewable energy goals in a short span of time—Google is here to save the day. The company announced on Monday that it would cover...
