Datamation Staff

PCMagazine: Several sources are reporting that Web site traffic spiked yesterday around the time that the “not guilty” verdict in the Casey Anthony case was announced. For example, Akami’s Net Usage Index for News shows that page views for news sites jumped from 2 million per second to 3.3 million per second. At the same […]

GigaOm: According to StatCounter, Web discovery engine StumbleUpon has overtaken Facebook as the leading Web traffic driver among social networking sites. The site also previously held the title for two weeks in February 2010, but Facebook quickly returned to the top spot. Currently, StumbleUpon accounts for about 50 percent of all website referrals from social […]

eWeek: Following in the footsteps of rivals T-Mobile and AT&T, Verizon has announced that it will end its all-you-can-eat mobile data plans in favor of tiered pricing. Smartphone users will now pay $30 for 2GB of data per month, $50 for 5GB of data and $80 for 10GB of data. Feature phone users can get […]

Computerworld: A new report from security vendor McAfee with help from the S. Korean and U.S. governments says that a group of denial-of-service attacks on S. Korean websites in March were almost certainly the work of the N. Korean government or its allies. The report authors believe the attacks were designed to test N. Korea’s […]

Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal: Reports say that Cisco will be working with the Chinese government to create a new system of 500 networked surveillance cameras in the city of Chongqing. The “Peaceful Chongqing” project will monitor a 400-square-mile area of the city. Officials say the project will be used to fight crime, but human […]

InformationWeek: According to new statistics from NetMarketShare, 1 percent of all Internet traffic and 2.1 percent of U.S. Internet traffic comes from Apple iPad users. In addition, the firm reports that 5 percent of all browsing sessions and 8.2 percent of U.S. browsing sessions now originate from a mobile device. The top four mobile platforms […]

NY Times: Microsoft has signed a deal to power English-language searches on Baidu, China’s top search engine. “More and more people here are searching for English terms,” said Baidu’s Kaiser Kuo. “But Baidu hasn’t done a good job. So here’s a way for us to do it.” Observers say that Microsoft will almost certainly be […]

Reuters: Over the holiday weekend, hackers belonging to the Anonymous group broke into an Apple Web server used for surveys and published 27 usernames and passwords for the server. The group said the attack was part of its “AntiSec” campaign and tweeted, “Not being so serious, but well … Apple could be target, too. But […]

SocialBeat: Just days after launching its new Google+ social networking initiative, Google has quietly turned off its Realtime Twitter search. “Since October of 2009, we have had an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results through a special feed, and that agreement expired on July 2,” the company explained. “While we […]

GigaOm: According to StatCounter, Google’s Chrome browser accounted for 20.7 percent of the global browser market in June. That’s a marked increase from two years ago, when the browser had just a 2.8 percent market share. Since 2009, StatCounter reports that Internet Explorer use has declined from 59 to 44 percent, and Firefox fell from […]

USA Today: Google is working on cleaning up the Gmail interface. “Over the years, adding countless features to Gmail has made it an increasingly powerful communication hub, but along the way the interface has also become more cluttered and complex,” writes Google’s Jason Cornwall. “That’s one of the reasons we’re embarking on a series of […]

International Business Times: A judge in San Francisco has ruled that Google’s StreetView cars may have violated federal wiretapping laws when intercepting Wi-Fi signals. “Merely pleading that a network is unencrypted does not render that network readily accessible to the general public,” the judge wrote. His ruling clears the way for a current class action […]