Foursquare is a startup that is likely subject to the same kind of technical growing pains that Twitter has experienced over the last two years, so that's not terribly surprising. What struck me as interesting is that it appears that the Foursquare outage is the result of a power failure in the Amazon EC2 (cloud) facility in northern Virginia.

The latest estimates I've seen, and the statistics we review every day on our own mail systems and the filters run by our partners at MXLogic, tell us that at least 80% of all email is now junk mail. That's right. EIGHTY PERCENT. Its likely more than that. We handle mail for some domains for which over 90% of all incoming messages are spam. Its completely ridiculous at this point.

Before you go putting your life savings into Vonage stock, keep in mind that last month a high court called into question the ability of the FCC to impose its will when it comes to Internet services.

So you're in the business of creating or delivering content and services on the web.  Maybe you publish a website, or maybe you're in the business of hosting websites for your customers  Maybe you host an application that runs on the web.  Either way, you should care about net neutrality.  Here's why.

Yesterday the FCC sent some shockwaves through the Internet world by suggesting that it is going to try to force telephone and cable companies to "play nice" with our packets. Big news, but first some background....

An Internet outage. Nobody likes it. Everyone wants to avoid it. Companies spend millions upon millions of dollars to prevent it, yet as the old saying goes, "sh*t happens".

Country's newest political party's party's goal is to change Canadian and global legislation concerning the evolving information society, which is characterized by openness and diversity, and will contest Canada's next federal election on an anti-copyright and patent bullying, cultural freedom and consumer rights platform

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I've had a hate-hate relationship with Bookmarks since the late '80s. Back then, bookmarks were as important as your dialup phone number. Remember dialup? Internet access has come a long way, but managing your bookmarks has not; not from within Safari. For me, there are two kinds of bookmarks: the ones I use every day and the temporary ones for projects and research. Today, I will be talking about the project and research bookmarks.

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Freak accident results in revelation about the comfort and other benefits if standing desks

A generation ago, Mac pioneer developer, the late Jef Raskin, acclaimed by Apple cognozenti as the "true father of the Mac," suggested naming the platform's development project after his favorite variety of Apple - the McIntosh (note the spelling difference), which is about to celebrate its 200th birthday