If there is one thing that I really don’t like on the internet, it is email spam. Therefore, I’m pretty happy to read that 2 spammers were sentenced to 5 years in jail after sending millions of unsolicited porn emails.
The 2 guys, aka Jeffrey A. Kilbire and James R. Schaffer, from the US, started their […]

It looks like the video-sharing-website YouTube is proving itself to be one of the best ways to distribute video content in the world wide web for millions of people to watch and enjoy.
The latest channel was created by the European Commission and it will include different issues, like climate change, energy and immigration.
At present […]

ICANN, the corporation that takes of internet domain names, has announced that there are plans to include more TLDs (Top-level domain names such as .com, .net and others) during 2008.
The public statement was made after a meeting in Puerto Rico, in which Dr. Paul Twomey – president of ICANN - said:
With the progress we’ve made […]

In the middle of March, the photo-sharing-website aka Flickr announced the future addition of a new language which was Chinese. But 3 months after the announcement, they actually added 7 languages, including: French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.
According to TC this is an obvious step because half the Flickr users are non-US […]

The Google folks have added a new feature to their freebie Calendar service, it is called Google Calendar Galery and obviously it makes life easier for everyone. Basically the addition is related to upcoming events and being able to create/share/save them, directly in Google Calendar.
Here are some of the options I found interesting, they […]

Good news for the people that live in Hong Kong and receive spam in a variety of ways, a new law will be implemented that punishes the so called spammers for real.
By “for real” I mean there is a chance the spammers can end up in jail (no more then 5 years) and pay up […]

MapMyName is a fresh project made in Portugal by João Ribeiro and Sérgio Veiga, both software architects that had the brilliant idea to try to count the number of internet users - they have a cool video presentation that explains the project.
Before going to the 10 questions and answers I’d just like to add 2 […]

Joost is a “new” internet project that has been receiving a lot of hype lately, if I’m not mistaken they started an invitation system similar to GMail which makes the hype even bigger.
For the people that have been living under a rock for the last weeks/months, here is a small description of Joost:
A project […]

Gaming consoles like the Nintendo Wii that have access to the internet need special software to perform some tasks, like reading RSS feeds.
With that in mind the Google staff came up with a special Google Reader for the Wii that presents a new interface and a cool feature which is related to using the […]

The Google folks have added a new communication feature to the Google Calendar which can be described as SMS alerting - you setup a reminder on the calendar and instead of alerting via email like it happened until yesterday, the new feature enables the use of SMS reminders.
This means that instead of only using the […]