Faster Forward Archive: The Web
Google socializes search further, redesigns navigation bar
Google searches will reflect more of what your friends know. The Mountain View, Calif., company is expanding its "social search" feature to show additional links created or shared by friends and make them easier to spot. As its blog post explained yesterday, Google will no longer confine those social results...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 18, 2011; 11:00 AM ET |
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Bank of America site suffers outage (updated with BofA response)
Bank of America's Web site and online-banking services went down this morning and remain inaccessible for some users. Twitter updates with the "#bofa" hashtag suggest this outage began before 8 this morning. The site wouldn't load about noon; more recently, it's been appearing exceedingly slowly, as if it were on...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 14, 2011; 1:19 PM ET |
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Google to eject H.264 video from Chrome browser
Finding a more open, mobile-friendly replacement for Flash video on the Web was never going to be easy. But it's looking even more difficult after Google's surprise announcement yesterday that it will yank support for the most widely used Flash replacement from its Chrome browser. The Mountain View, Calif., company...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 12, 2011; 11:05 AM ET |
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CES 2011 Preview: Internet TVs
2011 may be the year of the Internet TV, if next week's Consumer Electronics Show is any indication. Several companies are rumored to unveil gadgets that merge your television and your Web browser, whether through a set-top box or an all-in-one unit.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| December 31, 2010; 12:12 PM ET |
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Skype outage explained, now how to move forward?
Skype gave a post-mortem on their massive outage last week. The Cliffs Notes version is that a bug in an older version of the Windows client of Skype couldn't process a backlog of offline instant messages from overloaded servers.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| December 30, 2010; 10:46 AM ET |
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Bank of America buys up anti-BoA domain names
In a preemptive move against a probable Wikileaks attack, the Bank of America has gone domain name shopping spree, registering domain names insulting their top executives.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| December 23, 2010; 9:55 AM ET |
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Google tweaks search pages and logo,
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Microsoft endorses a Flash video replacement,
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Steve Jobs doesn't like Adobe Flash,
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, April 29, 2010
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Google takes its argument with China outside ,
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, March 17, 2010
Google adds bicycle directions to Google Maps,
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Apple expands iTunes Web storefront to include iPhone apps,
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Facebook Soups Up Search,
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Yahoo's Search Leads It To Microsoft,
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, July 22, 2009
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, July 18, 2008
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