Category Archives: Internet

Wanna buy A.com?

You may be able to, although you’ll certainly have to shell out some money.

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Two Nigerian Scammers Jailed

Two Nigerians were jailed for a total of 37 years for their part in the biggest scam in Nigerian history. The scam defrauded a Brazilian bank out of $242 million.

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Old shows find new life on net

Early next year, America Online is planning on offering free access to vitage television shows through a video-on-demand plan.

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IM Preferred over E-mail

Instant messaging is becoming more popular than email among teenagers, a new study finds.

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.xxx top level domain to start later this year

ICANN released Wednesday that it was approved a new top level domain specific to web sites with adult content. The new TLD is .xxx.

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Firefox exceeds 50,000,000 downloads

Since last November Firefox has been downloaded 50,000,000 times.

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Google Maps now offering satellite images

Google started offering maps a few months ago, but this makes it even better. Now, instead of the line drawn maps you can see the addresses on a satellite image. Type an address in and search for it. There’s a … Continue reading

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Google one-ups Yahoo on email storage

Yahoo recently announced that they are planning on increasing storage space on their free email accounts from 250mb to 1gb. Google is upgrading GMail accounts to 2gb, probably in response. Google is also claiming that they will continue increasing space … Continue reading

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Yahoo! ups email to 1gb

Yahoo announced that they will begin giving their email customers 1gb instead of the current 250mb starting in April.

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Google Desktop Search out of beta

Google announced that the Google Desktop Search will no longer be in beta testing. With the full release comes support for pdf files, multimedia, an API, and Korean and Chinese support.

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