An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider or IAP) is a company or business that provides access to the Internet and related services. In the past, most ISPs were run by the phone companies. Now, ISPs can be started by just about any individual or group with sufficient money and expertise. In [...]
New and exciting features
Here are some end-user features you can expect to see in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
Activities
Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
Activities typically involve two [...]
February 24, 2008 – 3:52 am
Japan successfully launches high-speed Internet satellite
TOKYO (AFP) — Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down, the space agency said.
The domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the Kizuna satellite was launched at 17:55 pm (0855 GMT) with no glitches from the Space Centre [...]
February 23, 2008 – 10:51 am
Feb 6, 2008
Switching on a giant atom-smashing machine might open the door to unexpected visitors - from the future, it has been claimed.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), due to come on stream this year, could turn out to be the world’s first time machine, according to two Russian scientists.
Their calculations show it is possible the [...]
February 23, 2008 – 9:13 am
There are two notable things about Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
As the world’s leading particle physics laboratory, it is staffed by people with very large brains.
It is also where Tim Berners-Lee, a former scientist at Cern’s Geneva headquarters, invented the worldwide web as a way to share information among the global research community [...]