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."
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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
Skype jumps the shark: Seven alternative VoIP services
Microsoft is adding advertising to its voice over IP (VoIP) service Skype. Fortunately, there are lots of alternatives that don't stick an ad in your face while you're talking.
New Internet Top Level Domain BS ahead
ICANN is approving as many as two thousand new top-level domains, but will any Website owner really want any of them?
451: Web censorship status code
Everyone knows a 404 Web status messages means you can reach the Web server, but it can't find the page you're looking for. In these days of Internet censorship, a new HTTP Web status message, 451, has been proposed for pages and sites blocked by censorship.
IPv6: When do you really need to switch?
World IPv6 Day is here, and with it many ISPs, websites and manufacturers are now supporting IPv6, the next generation network protocol of the internet.
3 things to know about IPv6 as World IPv6 Day approaches
Yes, June 6th is World IPv6 Day. No, you don't need to panic.
Facebook isn't dumping Chrome for Opera
There's a story going around that Facebook has dropped Google Chrome as one of is preferred Web browsers in favor of Opera. It's not true.
Dumb ideas? Facebook to buy Opera? Build own smartphone?
Rumors have it that Facebook is considering buying the company behind the Opera Web browser and it's working on its own smartphone.
Chrome beats Internet Explorer in global Web browser race
For the first time, in more than a decade, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been kicked off its throne as the number one Web browser in the world.
Stick a fork in the Facebook IPO, it's done
The hype is done. Reality is here. On its first day, Facebook's IPO had to be propped up by its underwriters to stay just barely above its offering price.