Posts Tagged ‘World’
Map Shows Off Solar Surface Area Required To Power World
If you haven’t already guessed, it’s quite a slow news day. Apple won’t budge on the tablet, Google’s running searches as usual, and Twitter’s managed to stay up without issue so far today. So we’re going to bring you utter coolness instead.
Have you ever wondered how much solar panel surface area the world needs to meet today’s demands of electricity? Wonder no more, because the image we’ve attached (click to enlarge) to this article speaks a thousand words. According to the image, in 2008, approximately 366,375 square kilometers of solar panels was required to satisfy the world’s demands for electricity. Fast forward to 2030, and we’ll be needing a whopping 496,805 square kilometers of solar panels to meet demand. More »
McAfee Ranks The Most And Least Dangerous Domains in The World
McAfee released yesterday its third annual “Mapping the Mal Web” report, which highlights the most and least dangerous domains in the world. Claiming the top spot with 36.7% of sites posing a risk, the most dangerous domain is .cm, which belongs to the small African nation of Cameroon. According to McAfee, considering that .cm is often a typo of .com, cybercriminals use the domain to set up contaminated websites.
Speaking of .com, it claimed the second spot as the most dangerous domain with 32.2% of websites infected with some kind of malware. That’s a huge move from last year’s 9th place. On the other side of the spectrum, Japan’s .jp was considered the least dangerous country domain. The safest generic and overall domain is the goverment’s .gov with 0% risk. More »
Official Photoshop App for The iPhone Goes Global
Nearly two months after Adobe officially launched its mobile Photoshop app for the iPhone in the US and Canada, the company has announced that the application is finally downloadable in every country where the Apple App Store is available. The application was featured as one of the “Top Free Apps” in the iTunes Store for three straight weeks after its release. More »
Breaking: BlackBerry Internet Service [BIS] Down Globally
Apparently, BlackBerry Internet Service [BIS] might be down for many. Various users from multiple carriers not only in North America but across the world have been reporting trouble with BIS. I personally just had a little trouble accessing the Internet on my BlackBerry browser. At this point it’s not really clear what the cause of the outage is. Let us know in the comments below where in the world you are and if your BlackBerry device is having data issues.
We’ll be updating as soon as we find out more.
Time Spent Online Worldwide: Microsoft Tops Google And Yahoo
According to research firm comScore, Microsoft sites managed to capture 14.5% of the 27 billion hours spent online by people all around the world in the month of September 2009. This puts Microsoft in the nuber one spot as the most engaging property in the world. Google and Yahoo follow. More »
Why is The Tech World Making Such a Big Deal About The TwitterPeek?
Ever since I got up this morning and started looking at the tech news, I’ve seen all the major blogs and news sources make a big deal about a little gadget called the TwitterPeek. All I want to know is what is so special about it. From what I understand it’s only capable of sending tweets. Plus, it’s expensive for a device that only has one capability. On top of it all, I hear it’s not even really made for heavy Twitter users. More »
Office.com Now Live
Earlier this month, Erictric reported that Microsoft had become the new owner of Office.com, a domain the Washington-based software giant acquired from an entrepreneur for an unknown amount of cash. In that report, we mentioned that the Office.com business would be moved to ContactOffice.com. Now, Microsoft has finally made Office.com live, in which users are automatically forward to Office.Microsoft.com.
It doesn’t look like this domain was reserved for Microsoft Office Web after all.
[ TechCrunch ]
Microsoft Is Asking Court to Allow Them to Keep Selling Word
Last week, we reported that a judge from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word. It seems like poor Microsoft is worried sick about this whole situation. They have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to grant them permission to keep selling the Word processor software.
According to Microsoft, Microsoft itself and the public will be affected if they stop distributing Word while they find a solution to the problem.
I don’t know about you, but I feel sorry for Microsoft.
[ Yahoo! Tech News ]
Texas Judge: Microsoft Cannot Sell Word In The United States
A Texas judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has ruled that Microsoft shall no longer be able to sell one of it’s most popular products in the United States; Microsoft Word.
The ruling comes after a complaint from a Toronto-based company called i4i Inc., who claims that Microsoft violated a 1998 patent (patent no: 5,787,449), which focuses on a method of reading the programming language XML.
The lawsuit was filed back in March 2007, and as if it wasn’t enough of a ruling to force Microsoft to stop selling Word, they were also ordered to pay upwards of $290 million USD to i4i.
“We are disappointed by the court’s ruling,” said Kevin Kutz, Microsoft spokesman. “We believe the evidence clearly demonstrated that we do not infringe and that the i4i patent is invalid. We will appeal the verdict,” he went on to say.
In the end, it’s highly unlikely Microsoft will stop selling its flagship product – they do not go down easily, especially wen it involves this much money.
[ Seattle Pi ]