We’ve all navigated through websites ending in .com, .net, .org, .gov, and .edu, and in recent years been to a few sites ending in .biz, .us, .tv, and more. This is all soon to change. The internet body, more formally known as The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), voted today to allow [...]
Where On (Google) Earth Is Waldo?
Melanie Coles, a young web designer and artist, has set out to stimulate an intriguing viral game. She has hidden a huge painting on a rooftop somewhere in Vancouver, in hopes that it will appear on Google Earth. When users examine satellite photos of the Lower Mainland after the next Google Earth “Fly-by” they will [...]
Google Gets Closer to a Mobile Future
Google has long said that its best hope for future growth comes from mobile devices. Today, Google moved to bring that future a bit closer.
The Internet search giant joined an industry consortium that plans to build a next-generation wireless data network. Google is investing $500 million in the project, which is led by Spring and [...]
