Tag: AMERICA

The whole idea of micro-blogging might not be very revolutionary, after all. A diary held in the archives of John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. president, reveals concise entries on daily life that closely resemble tweets. According to Fox News, the Massachusetts Historical Society will start posting these 200-year-old entries Wednesday on Twitter. Along with these entries (which of course won't ...

Hey, what do you know? All those meetings over the proposed National Broadband Plan has amounted to something: a "yeah, we should probably hit this up." Today, the FCC has kicked off an immensely ambitious project to bring "high-speed internet access to every corner of the United States." $7.2 billion of the economic stimulus package has already been allocated for the task, but it'll be ages ...

So, there's good news and bad news, and per tradition, we'll be starting with the latter. Three of four undersea cables that route Internet traffic from Asia to North America have inexplicably been cut, meaning that your international 'Quake III' server may be a bit slow this evening. The good news is that this fiasco clearly hasn't affected you yet. The AP has confirmed via Egypt's communications ...

Who says we Americans don't love our mobile Internet? We don't like paying through the nose for it, but there's no denying we heart it profusely. According to new research from Nielson, around 15.6% of US wireless subscribers utilize mobile Internet on their handset, while the UK snatched the silver medallion at 12.9% and Italy the bronze at 11.9%. Out of the 16 countries studied by the firm, ...

So what do you do if you're an oil rich country that lives under the constant threat of sanctions, invasion, or mass nuggie? Why, you make a first person shooter about your prime rival in the world, of course. 'Rescue the Nuke Scientist' puts you in the shoes of the Iranian security forces as they try to rescue a husband and wife team of nuclear engineers who were kidnapped on a pilgrimage to ...