Science & Technology, Internet Trends.
On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 WordPress.org joins many sites around the web, from small personal blogs to internet companies like Mozilla, Wikipedia, Reddit, and Cheezburger sites, going dark to protest two proposed laws in the United States, called SOPA and the PROTECT IP Act.
The English version of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia blacks out its website at midnight Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, January 18, 2011 for 24 hours in protest against anti-piracy laws being proposed in the US. Wikipedia is considered one of the Internet's most popular websites, with millions of visitors daily.
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement."
In December 2011, USA, Czech Republic, Portugal, Philippines, Ukraine and Mexico joined the champions circle of countries where Internet Explorer 6 usage had dropped below 1 percent, ushering in a new era of modern web browsing.
Today MS-DOS is 30 years old. Thirty years ago, on July 27, 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the disk operating system it bought from Seattle Computer Products, a hardware company owned by Rod Brock.
US technology pioneer and world's 14th most valuable technology company IBM marked its 100th anniversary on June 16, 2011. In their dedicated 'IBM Turns 100' website they have posted '100 Icons of Progress' about the 100 IBM innovations that helped shape the last century.
US technology pioneer and world's 14th most valuable technology company IBM celebrated its 100th birthday on June 16, 2011. IBM was founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation on June 16, 1911 and was renamed International Business Machines Corp. in 1924.
According to Net Applications, usage of IE6 was still at a high 12% last month. Microsoft wants to have that number reduced to less than 1 percent. Wishing for the end of IE6 usage, the software giant took a stand by launching a new website on March 4, 2011, The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown, with the slogan, Moving the world off Internet Explorer 6.
Quality link exchanges are a good way to increase your website visitors and link popularity, and improve your page rankings in search engines. But reciprocal link scam has now become a common practice. It is an easy trap to fall into as even reputed sites are hiring SEO consultants for this scam. I have decided to present case studies on my blog to expose link exchange scams.
Quality link exchanges are a good way to increase your website visitors and link popularity, and improve your page rankings in search engines. But reciprocal link scam has now become a common practice. It is an easy trap to fall into as even reputed sites are hiring SEO consultants for this scam. I have decided to present case studies on my blog to expose link exchange scams.
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