Tag: RANKING

Well, it's happened, Facebook has gone and destroyed all that is holy about the Internet. A study released this week by Experian Hitwise found that for the first time, traffic to social networking sites has edged out that to "entertainment" (bam chicka wah wah) sites. Before you pour one on the curb, it's worth noting the study only looked at U.K. users. And we all know that they have some issues ...

You know the drill. Buy a laptop, grab the requisite warranty and tech support guarantee, and then spend endless minutes of your life on the line with said tech support every time your new baby starts to sputter. Why, you may ask yourself, is my laptop's tech support so gosh darn un- supportive? Well, Laptop Magazine did some extensive research on the subject, contacting tech support units at ...

According to a recent report by Symantec Corp., the city of Shaoxing, China produces more malware attacks than any other place on this planet. While that might not be a huge surprise, it's shocking just how many of those attacks come from Shaoxing, a city of 4.3 million, and once known for its calligraphy and bridges. While China leads the world with 30-percent of the world's malware, about ...

Share Last week, we told you about the FCC's ambitious new broadband plan. Now, a recent report indicates that increasing high-speed Internet access in the U.S. might be more crucial than previously thought. According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. dropped from third to fifth in the World Economic Forum's latest rankings of national information technology systems. Sweden topped the ...

Residents of Idaho receive more spam e-mail than anyone else in the United States, and we're not talking about the canned meat that'll clog arteries. Those spudsters in the northwest are the nation's number one recipients of e-mail spam, with Symantec's MessageLabs concluding that 93.8-percent of all Idaho e-mail is garbage, Mashable reports . Last year, the Gem State was ranked 44th in the ...