For years, one of the issues of Internet has been the speed of access to the resources it provides. Although it is perfectly true that the speed has been increasing with the years, it is also a real fact that the need for high speed internet has also grown almost geometrically.
In the mid 90s, the average Internet website was mainly composed of static HTML elements and references to images, sometimes to music (MIDI files). Most of the (then) webmasters were mainly concerned about the size of the pictures to be …

Everyone that has a website online, knows something about the question of the suitable webhosting. For the ones who do not know a word about WebHosting, it is a service (free or commercial) that works on a machine (or farm, cloud, grid of machines) allocated inside a Data Center qualified to provide a clean, fast Internet access, reliability, availability (and scalability), all to host a website or group of websites. A weblog - such as Technofender’s Blog - is also a website. In general, everything you browse in the Internet …

Cyberloafing is a well known tendency among the current workers, who usually have access to the Internet at their workstations. It basically consists of wasting time in personal duties at work time. There are whole libraries and treatises of the losses experienced by the companies due to this very common behaviour.
But, a little time for the personal stuff at work might well have a big ROI, in a previously unsuspected way. According to Andrea Polzer-Debruyne, Ph D student at Massey University, New Zealand, who conducts a research on personal Internet …

Owen Van Natta was one of the Facebook team, until Feb. 2008, when he quit and became the CEO of social music startup PlayList. While in Facebook, Van Natta was the Chief Operating Officer, until he was lined-down to Chief Revenue Officer and VP of Operations.
It seems that the board of NewsCorp is ready to incorporate Van Natta as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MySpace. Jonathan Miller of NewsCorp is about to make the announcement during the next week, but it is a true fact that Van Natta …

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For years, there has been an intense debate over the increase in the prices of Internet Connections. All over the world, but specially inside the continental US.
On the IPSs side, the strongest argument is that a regular - so-called and such a misnomer - user, defined by someone whose daily use of Internet is reduced to a few Megabytes of data transfer, is paying the price of the "abusive" intensive users, which visit Youtube, TV Video Streaming and download tons of Gigabytes per day.
Based on that premise, the ISPs have …

Technology applied to the field of communications has changed the way the human race see its own world and environment as well as the roles of the different actors in society. Just two centuries ago, it was totally impossible to maintain a live stream of news and information within a distance of more than 100 Kms.
But, the technology has changed the landscape of the human interactions through an increasingly powerful use of new devices and channels to send and receive information in real time.
Particularly, the internet TV has grown up …

Have you received a spam email that asks your help by means of deposits of International Checks - and you being paid a commission for your time and effort?
You are not alone. All of us have received them. In fact, maybe less than 1% of the internauts pay attention to those kind of messages, but, for the people that took the risk to follow the whole thread to the end, the price has been extremely high.
In PC World, there is a report that points out to a 2.1 billion US …