XKCD artist Randall Monroe has updated his Map of Online Communities to reflect how the volume of social activity has changed around the Internet since the original map was created back in 2007. The massive map... More...

As part of an ongoing improvement of the Google Docs platform as a collaboration tool, Google is now implementing web fonts as part of its word processing repertoire. Typically, text on a webpage is... More...

Google has unveiled a new home and tools for its Realtime search offering. Although the web giant has been using Realtime search across its search engine, the new home allows you to see conversation views of... More...

According to a report released by the FCC this week, US broadband consumers in 2009 were getting half of the download speeds advertised by their service providers. In 2009, the median advertised download speed for... More...

When you hear someone talk about online privacy, you think of security surrounding your online activities, or the anonymity that it provides you from the spying eyes of organizations and governments. The Wall Street Journal... More...

Twitter has over 100 million users and is expanding its network with a whole new, "Suggestions For You" feature, which can be related to the similar Facebook "People You May Know" application. The feature enables... More...

The current Labor run Australian Government has announced that it is expanding the proposed NBN (National Broadband Network) by a further 300,000 homes and businesses, in hope of winning next months August 21st election. The opposition,... More...

Virgin Media announced today that it will be launching a trial of its first online and mobile TV player: Virgin Media Player. Virgin Media has confirmed 'hundreds of hours' of content for the beta trial including... More...

Free health care and enhanced social benefits come at a price. A more socially liberal government also brings a more financially liberal ecosystem as well. Stymied competition in the technosphere has always been a point... More...

Rogers Communications announced that they will be making adjustments to their current Internet service plans, and not for the better. Just days after Internet movie streaming company Netflix announced that they would be expanding their empire... More...

According to John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN), the Internet will run out of IPv4 addresses to allocate in less than a year. The sentiment was echoed by... More...

Netflix announced today that they will be expanding their online streaming movie and TV service to Canada. The company confirmed it will only be expanding to Canada, but it's an expansion nevertheless. However, Canadian customers will... More...

China is infamous for their Internet censorship and the “great firewall of China,” but a leaked speech to the Standing Committee of the national People’s Congress on April 29 contains rhetoric that implies a Chinese... More...

As governments all over the world begin to adapt to a new era of national security, where cyberwar is as real as bombing runs and whole bureaucracies are formed and dissolved around the digital battlefield,... More...

Google announced on Tuesday the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Google claims that Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than their last index. "It's the largest collection of web... More...

Microsoft has issued its response to Apple's recent Safari 5 release, demonstrating Internet Explorer 9's hardware acceleration abilities. In a blog posting on Tuesday, Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc posted a video comparing Internet Explorer 9 and... More...

OfCom, the UK's independent competition and regulatory authority for the telecommunications industry, has released a new draft of their policies towards Internet piracy. There are many changes in the new draft especially when it comes... More...

A recent survey by the UK Online Measurement company (UKOM) has revealed some interesting statistics when it comes to UK Internet usage. The survey concluded that the average user spends 22 hours and 15 minutes... More...

Microsoft said on Wednesday that it plans to introduce support for the VP8 video codec in Internet Explorer 9. But there's a catch, the user must have the VP8 codec installed on Windows. Google announced a... More...

Speculation is mounting that the formation of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government in the UK could lead to the controversial Digital Economy Bill, which amongst other things puts in place a three-strike anti-piracy... More...

Neowin previously reported this week about the Google Chrome speed test was misleading, by using a locally loaded webpage. In the video, one scene in particular when the potato shoots across the screen, you... More...

As pointed out by mozillalinks, Mozilla is planning to do a major overhaul of their add-on manager UI for Firefox. The new add-on manager will change from the existing popup window, to its own... More...

Apple has announced it will be shutting down its online music service Lala on May 31. If you try to join Lala.com as a new users you'll be presented with a message "Lala is shutting down.... More...

The Financial Times is reporting that ISPs in Afghanistan will start filtering the internet starting May 1. According to a senior official in the Afghanistan government the goal is to block sites about gambling, promoting... More...

A principal at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in New Jersey is asking parents to join a voluntary ban on social networks and text messaging according to WCBS News. The principal sent out an email to parents... More...

Akamai released a State of the Internet report for each quarter of the year. Their most recent report for Q4 of 2009 is now available. It shows that the average broadband speed in the US... More...

Facebook will offer a new 'Like' button this week for websites. Content creators can embed the button on their site and users can click it and share the site with their friends through their Facebook... More...

Facebook today stopped short of introducing a panic button after meeting with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection ( CEOP ) centre. Instead it announced that existing links in... More...

Opera today announced that their browser is now used by over 100 million users around the world. The number was divided between 50 million using the desktop edition and 50 million using Opera Mini for... More...

Google's corporate blog today played host to an announcement regarding the next steps in their ambitious fiber-optic network program. Google originally announced plans to build an experimental ultra-high speed network, just last month, hoping... More...

The New York Times is reporting that Google, Intel and Sony have all teamed up to create a new set-top box for in-home streaming, called Google TV. The new project, which has been underway... More...

The New Zealand Government has quietly implemented a country-wide internet filtering system, designed to filter illegal content from the public, such as Beastiality and Child Pornography. The filter is opt-in by ISP's, and is governed... More...

Stephen Fry has revealed in an interview with .net magazine how he can take down sites by tweeting a link, as thousands of his 1.3 million followers follow the link and overload the servers, Neowin... More...

Canadian Internet service provider Shaw, said it will be testing out a new ultra-fast broadband connection, with download speeds up to one gigabit per second (1Gbps). These speeds will be 10 times faster than... More...

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to allow communities to use local schools' broadband internet access during non-operating hours. Many schools receive funds for internet access through the E-rate program. However, the FCC's previous... More...

According to Sky News, a study by the Institute of Psychological Sciences at the University of Leeds found a link between Internet usage and depression. Psychologists found the more time spent surfing the web, the... More...

Today, Internet service provider Comcast announced that it will be switching from McAfee anti-virus to Symantec's Norton Security Suite. The switch from McAfee to Norton will benefit Norton, Comcast and its 15.7 million customers. The deal... More...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (or ICANN for short) has approved the ability to create domain names containing non-Latin characters, according to a report from Yahoo! News. As Neowin reported in... More...

The Obama administration announced today that the United States government will be posting a large amount of Cabinet-level department data to the Internet, with topics ranging from Medicare to Transportation, according to a report from... More...

The New York Times will begin charging readers to fully access to its web site starting in 2011, according to a report from the Associated Press. The controversial and risky move, aimed at drawing more... More...

Verizon has announced that they will begin offering an improved version of their internet security suite to their FiOS and High Speed Internet customers based on McAfee technology. "Our award-winning Internet security suite now becomes even... More...

Google Inc., one of the world's most popular search engines and Internet advertisers, is denying claims from local media and blogs that it has already pulled its business from China according to reports from Reuters.... More...

Comodo claim that their firewall is unique in that it passes all known leak tests to ensure the integrity of data entering and exiting your system. Comodo has put firewall through all kinds of sophisticated... More...

World peace is a complicated construct. It's shaped by what we think we have learned from history. It's a noble aim for anyone who tries to achieve it. We know that human nature will always... More...

Lessons in how to use the Internet safely are to become a compulsory part of primary school education in England from 2011. Drawn up by the new UK Council on Child Internet Safety, the plans... More...

European MEP's and Council representatives have agreed on a set of guidelines that state restrictions to Internet usage may "only be imposed if they are appropriate, proportionate and necessary within a democratic society," and that... More...

Microsoft today demonstrated an early, three week old, build of Internet Explorer 9 at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009. IE 9 will take advantage of the power of the GPU for all page rendering and... More...

Swindon is to become the UK's first town to offer free public Wi-Fi, with Swindon Borough Council planning to have all 186,000 local citizens covered by April 2010. Council officials have stated that access will... More...

Today at a packed out keynote for Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft's Ray Ozie hinted at the next generation of Internet Explorer. According to sources close to Neowin, Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky is set... More...

In a bizarre alteration of examination rules, the Danish government has taken the bold steps of allowing pupils full access to the internet during their final school exams, according to the BBC's technology page. ... More...