On the Choice of Browser and Numerical Intelligence
We analyzed usage data of the www.calcudoku.org number puzzle website for the years 2010 and 2011, consisting of over 1 million solved puzzles, attempting to determine the numerical intelligence of users of Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, and Chrome (insufficient data was available for users of other browsers).
Information Sciences Institute
Ping-o-Matic!
What is this?
Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.
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We regularly check downstream services to make sure that they’re legit and still work. So while it may appear like we have fewer services, they’re the most important ones.
Make sure to only ping specialized services if they’re relevant to your blog, otherwise you’ll cause an undue burden on them.
via Ping-o-Matic!.
Web Analytics Plans & Pricing: Newsbeat Monitoring Plans for Publishers
What are “concurrent” visitors?
Concurrent visitors are the total number of people simultaneously on your site at any one moment in time.
What is a “seat”?
A seat is an individual license to a personalized newsbeat dashboard and account. Seats give you complete flexibility over who sees what, so everyone is focused on what’s important to them. Each of the newsbeat plans comes with a preset number of seats, but you can add seats at any time.
via Web Analytics Plans & Pricing: Newsbeat Monitoring Plans for Publishers.
Broadcasters Sue To Stop $12 Streaming Service Aereo
Aereo is another in a succession of internet companies that have sought to disrupt traditional TV-watching. Many of the others have been sued out of existence; and Aereo has said it is anticipating a legal challenge and has a theory to get around the copyright issue.
via Broadcasters Sue To Stop $12 Streaming Service Aereo | paidContent.
A MythTV box with an HDTV card can do this too without the monthly charge.
AMD acquires SeaMicro to grab share of microserver market
Launched in 2007, SeaMicro quickly gained attention for their ability to combine cheap, low-end processors that could handle Web-centric server workloads. The company worked closely, if not exclusively, with Intel processors in recent years. SeaMicro’s current SM server line uses Intel’s Atom and “Sandy Bridge” processors.
via AMD acquires SeaMicro to grab share of microserver market.
Zemlin praises $25 Linux computer: a Windows license costs more than four Raspberry Pis
The $35 model entered the manufacturing stage last month and finally became available for purchase this week. Demand for the product was so prodigiously high that both of the foundation’s retail partners were unable to keep their websites running in the hours after the official launch. The $25 model is expected to come later this year.
via Zemlin praises $25 Linux computer: a Windows license costs more than four Raspberry Pis.
A year late, hundreds of dollars short: Sony Tablet P coming March 4
The tablet has an NVIDIA Tegra 2 1GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM running Android 3.2, with no reassurances that the tablet will ever be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Each of the tablet’s two 5.5-inch screens has a 1024×480 resolution, and the device has two cameras: 0.3 megapixels on the front, and 5 megapixels on the back. The Tablet P has only 4GB of internal storage, which can be supplemented via its microSD card slot, and gets 7 hours of battery life. Skeptics of the body style aren’t going to be reassured at all by these middling specs.
via A year late, hundreds of dollars short: Sony Tablet P coming March 4.
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Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities.
But at the end of the day what has happened is that US law (in fact, Maryland state law) as been imposed on a .com domain operating outside the USA, which is the subtext we were very worried about when we commented on SOPA. Even though SOPA is currently in limbo, the reality that US law can now be asserted over all domains registered under .com, .net, org, .biz and maybe .info (Afilias is headquartered in Ireland by operates out of the US).