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Tuesday, 30th November 2010

8 Predictions for IT in 2015 From Gartner

Gartner today announced eight predictions for IT in 2015. Last week, we looked at the broad trends Gartner and two other analyst firms expect to shape the future of IT. This latest announcement makes some more specific predictions about changes the firm's analysts expect to see by 2015 or earlier. For example, the firm predicts that 80% of…

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100 Years of Sears Catalogues: The Answer to the Question "What's the Internet For?"

Finally. The Internet is now good for something. Ancestry.com, leaders in putting freaky shit online, have fired 100 years of Sears Catalogues through a series of tubes and straight into your eyeholes. 250,000 pages of cataloguey goodness are yours for perusal, covering the years 1896 to 1993, when it ceased production as a paper artifact.

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P2P-Based DNS Seeks to Counter ICANN and Thwart Domain Seizures

With the news of Pirate Bay convictions upheld in Sweden, website seizures in the U.S., and now threats to "do something" about Wikileaks, it's no surprise that there are now calls for an alternative DNS, one outside the reach of governments and of ICANN. The DNS, or Domain Name System, is one of the foundational elements of the Internet…

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Every Tweet Counts: Google News Adds "Most Shared" Section

Google News has begun experimenting with a section titled "most shared" on its home page, apparently tracking activity on outside social networks including Twitter. When people say that some amount of social technology is going to infiltrate every nook and cranny of the internet, they aren't kidding. The new feature has been given subtle…

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Internet of Things

Your Next Computer May Be Made of . . . BRAINS!

Interfaces between the human brain and computers have been in development for a while. Most, however, are designed to allow computers to assist humans, such as people living with a disability. But, what about the computers? Won't somebody please think about the computers? Well, some stone-cold super freaks at Columbia University have. Got visions…

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