Diaspora, the open source social network and potential Facebook challenger, will be ready to launch on September 15, according to the project’s developers.
In a recent blog post, the Diaspora team say they have the nascent social networking software up and running, and are happy with the near-final result. Despite these proclamations, however, it’s unclear what [...]

In an interesting testament to what users consume on the Internet, YouTube has just passed Yahoo! for the #3 spot of the “most visited” sites on Alexa. Numbers 1 and 2, as you might expect, belong to Google and Facebook respectively, but YouTube’s launch into the 3rd slot is an interesting change.
The question still remains, [...]

By Karen Wilkinson, Staff Writer Government Technology
When governments began launching their own websites in the ’90s, the results left much to be desired, to say the least. The portals were painfully difficult to navigate and had multiple tabs that were too busy — seemingly created with government users in mind rather than the general public. [...]

STOCKHOLM – WikiLeaks moved its servers from the U.S. to Sweden in 2007 to take advantage of laws protecting whistleblowers and a culture supportive of online mavericks.
Sweden’s support for Internet freedom has made it a base for cyberactivists ranging from a Chechen rebel site to the file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay.
But even here, WikiLeaks may [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – PayPal wants to make it easier to buy low-cost digital goods online, whether it’s a single article on a news website or virtual items in a video game.
Scott Thompson, the online payment service’s president, said Thursday that PayPal plans to roll out a payment product by the end of the year that [...]

By: the Blog Tyrant
In my first year of University I sold a blog for $20,000 USD after only eight months. It was then that I realized that making money online was something I really wanted to give a shot. Since that time I have sold several other blogs for similar price tags. In this post [...]

Recently released FCC documents reveal that Sprint is set to launch what appears to be a new case for the iPod touch that would enable 3G networking on the WiFi-only device. Manufactured by ZTE and called the “Peel,” the case is essentially a MiFi-like mobile hotspot that snaps on to an iPod touch, giving it [...]

U.S. and Pakistani officials are condemning the publication of leaked documents that are said to be secret U.S. military files about the Afghanistan war.
The website WikiLeaks posted tens of thousands of documents online Sunday, and said it has another 15,000 documents that will be released “as the security situation in Afghanistan permits.” It says [...]

Net Market Share’s recent Web browser statistics show Internet Explorer remaining the most popular, with 60 percent of the market share, which includes versions 6, 7, and 8. Firefox 3.6 comes in second at 24 percent, and Google’s Chrome 5.0 is holding third place at 7 percent. It appears that Internet Explorer has a huge [...]

Finland has become the first country to enshrine legal rights for broadband to every citizen. Effective July 1, 2010, Finns have the right to access a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection. Existing telecommunications companies will be obliged to provide Finns with broadband lines accordingly. High speed internet has been identified as a priority for [...]