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The New York Times, earlier this week pointed out that browser wars had erupted again with Mozilla Corp’s Firefox, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari looking to one-up each other. While that certainly is true, the browser wars on the desktop are not as interesting as the sudden explosion of interest in the browsers on [...]

Akamai Technologies’ new State of the Internet report, released today and likely every quarter has some interesting findings about the state of the broadband around the world. (Related Posts: OECD report.)
Through our globally deployed server network and by virtue of the billions of requests for Web content that we service on a daily basis, Akamai [...]

NewTeeVee: Try as he might, writer Chris Albrecht just can’t break up with cable. Any suggestions?
Web Worker Daily: It may not be Web 2.0, but it’s darned useful: Eights ways to use a whiteboard in your home office.
OStatic : Google’s now allowing the download of five well-known Ajax libraries (Dojo, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Mootools, and [...]

More research is out showing that today’s youth view their mobile phones as an extension of the online lives they keep on their PCs. This report from In-Stat points out that millennials, the generation aged 8 to 27, use their mobile phones to access their social networks wherever they are.
This is great news for [...]

If you’re good at leading people in online games, you’re good at doing it in the real world. At least that’s the theory posited in two studies, one by IBM last year and another, more recent one from Harvard. Both studies noted similarities between CEO skills and those displayed by in-game leaders. They also found [...]

Orgoo, an L.A.-based startup that provides online communication tools, has just beefed up its offerings with a host of new features, including new video chat, two-way SMS, and more. The company plans to open Orgoo to the public soon, but in the meantime it’s offering invites for 500 GigaOM readers. To get your invite, go [...]