Firefox: Can this Web browser be saved?
Usage is down, users are unhappy, and a former developer has no kind words for the once popular number two Web browser. Can we hope for a Firefox revival?
Networking
All things network from Web browsers to wireless networking to IPv6 with your host, and long-time networking hand, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge PC operating system. SJVN covers networking, Linux, open source, and operating systems.
Latest Posts
Don't take my iGoogle away!
Google is planning on taking down iGoogle Web portal next year and I don't like it one little bit.
The leap-second of Website doom!
For the Internet to work everything has to be kept in time and so when an unexpected leap second was added to the calendar on Saturday night and then Web sites around the world went haywire.
Android quietly partners up with Chrome
The new version of Android, Jelly Bean, includes numerous new features and one of them is making Google's Chrome its new default Web browser. Chrome is also now available for Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. UPDATED 4:30 Eastern with ICS release.
Vortex wireless: Terabytes of Wi-Fi is on its way
You think 802.11n is fast with its up to 600Mbps , and you're looking forward to buying 802.11ac device with Gigabit speeds? Brace yourself, Terabyte Wi-Fi is on its way, and it won't interfere with any other near-by Wi-Fi transmission.
Fixing the Facebook e-mail foul-up
You may not have noticed it, but Facebook switched your default e-mail address to your Facebook e-mail address over the weekend. What? You didn't know you had a Facebook address? Well you do now!
The Truth about the Twitter crash
It wasn't from an attack or from too many Euro 2012 football fans, Twitter's crash came from a failure with an update of Twitter's own infrastructure.
Tweetless in Seattle, also New York, San Francisco, etc., etc.
Twitter went down at about 12 Eastern time leaving us “Tweetless." For some users, the site has started coming back up at about 1:15 Eastern time. [UPDATE 3:45 PM Eastern]
It's the end of books as you knew them: E-books out-sell hardbound for the 1st time
Get ready to bid adieu to your local bookstore -- if you're lucky enough to still have one! -- as e-books sales surpass hardcover book sales for the first time.
Australian retailer charges customers IE 7 "Tax"
It's more of a marketing stunt than anything else, but Austalian electronics retailer Kogan really is charging IE 7 users an extra 6.8% "tax."