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Janie Johnson has no health insurance, so when she cut her toe while giving herself a pedicure, she limped to the emergency room at one of Chicago's safety net hospitals and waited her turn.
Japan is one of the world's most Internet-savvy nations — except when it comes to politics. Decades-old rules have effectively banned campaigning on the Web.
It was in 1968 that the Beatles released "Birthday" and Paul McCartney sang: "They say it's your birthday/ We're gonna have a good time."
When Josh Schwartz, the creator of the popular teen dramas "The O.C." and "Gossip Girl," looked at his ratings, he noticed something.
The grand vision of the Internet is as a compendium of human knowledge (rather than, say, a good resource of pet videos, pornography and will.i.am).
After the popularity of the online-streamed Inauguration, a sense of rising expectation for live video is already palpable.
Web sites fawn over them. YouTube videos celebrate them. E-mail inboxes rarely go more than a week without forwards filled with pictures of them.
There are the National Board of Review Awards, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, the Producers Guild Awards and the British Film Institute Awards.
A number of high profile musicians have made enormous dents on YouTube: Soulja Boy, Rihanna, the Jonas Brothers and Chris Brown among them.
In the Wild West that is online video, Hulu.com has proven to be a trailblazing answer to how professional content can thrive on the Web.
Since Proposition 8 passed in California, much of Hollywood has been up in arms. Now, they are singing and dancing, too, in a new Web video called "Prop 8: The Musical."
When thinking about film and Thanksgiving, one's thoughts inevitably turn to the Little Tramp.
Movies are increasingly creeping online, as video sites like YouTube and Hulu are adding feature films to their extensive libraries.
A handful of quirky new webisodes transplant TV success to the Web. Here's how well they manage the transition.
As the election nears, Ron Howard is getting desperate.
MySpace is making a case to be the No. 1 online destination for music.
Roger Ebert is gone from "At the Movies," but he's an increasingly influential figure in the new dominant realm of film criticism: the Web.
A trio of musicians as disparate as Wu-Tang Clan, Peter Gabriel and MC Hammer have reincarnated themselves as Web entrepreneurs — with fascinating results.
Remixes for things as disparate as Garfield and Radiohead prove a Web truism: Let it go.
Online video might still be relegated to relatively small screens, but the size is just right for bugs.
Tupac Shakur Song Selected for Vatican's Online PlaylistAmong selections from Mozart, Muse and Dame Shirley Bassey is the slain rapper's song "Changes," which was released two years after his shooting death on a greatest hits album in 1998. More Articles
Should the President Have a Big Red Button for the Internet?The question posed in this article is should the president of the United States have a big red button to cut off the internet. A very interesting thought, as the net could impose a huge threat in times of extreme emergencies. You decide for yourself. I personally think NO!
Net set for 'language shake-up'The internet is on the cusp of the "biggest change" to its working "since it was invented 40 years ago", the net regulator Icann has said. The body said it that it was finalising plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters. The proposal - initially approved in 2 …
McCain Moves to Block FCC Net NeutralityThe FCC voted unanimously yesterday to move forward with the debate in an effort to formalize net neutrality guidelines. Senator John McCain followed up by introducing a bill that would prohibit the FCC from governing communications.
Ok there is a bill coming up concerning Net Neutrality and I wanted to get an idea of what people think of it and why. To me the why is very important as it will help me and others better understand your point of view. I look forward to hearing from you.
WND pushing Obama impeachment"In the column, WND promoted its "Exclusive!" "IMPEACH Obama Magnetic Bumper Sticker" with the promotional text, "Let the world know your solution to tyranny and socialism in America with the magnetic bumper sticker: 'IMPEACH OBAMA!'" "
Porn web site address almost identical to Pace High School's..."You need to look up something about a school and it involves Pace High School. Quickly, you get online and type away, but accidentally type .com instead of .net. Quick. Close your eyes.
Skanks for Nothing: Google Must ID 'Anonymous' BloggerYesterday a U.S. Federal judge ruled that Google must turn over the name of an anonymous blogger who took a severe disliking to aging supermodel Liskula Cohen.
Unsung heroes save net from chaos Crack teams of volunteers keep the net online and functioning, according to leading internet lawyer Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard University.
The current and future of C++One of the challenges of working in the IT field is staying on top of emerging technologies - while letting go of those that are becoming obsolete. This Global Knowledge article lists 10 areas that are fading into obscurity.
Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox ExtensionA routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla's Firefox Web browser.
I'm one of those odd people that doesn't read a magazine in any particular order. Anyrate, flipping through this months PC Magazine I ran into an article by Dan Costa praising the fairness of Comcast and other ISP's moves to metering bandwidth and charging on usage.
The cultural agoraphobia from which most of us suffer leads us always to overemphasise the downsides of openness and lack of central control, and to overvalue the virtues of order and authority.Control freaks don't get it: the web works best in a free-for-all
New Net Taxes Amid Taxing Times? Several states hit hard by the recession are now considering taxing digital goods sales, such as iTunes and e-books.
Extinct fish turns up in Baltic Sea catchA fish, declared extinct in the Baltic Sea over a 100 years ago, has made a remarkable reappearance - in the net of a professional Swedish fisherman off the coast of Öland.
The World Wide Web was Born 20 Years AgoIt all began 20 years ago with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order. More Articles
Making a Decision: Flex vs. Silverlight | TechExplored.netRIA tool comparison.
Church Uses Devil To Rebrand Prayer Channel, TV and radio spots will feature the devil as an "anti-spokesperson"A campaign debuting Wednesday will use the devil to pitch the rebranding of a New York religous cable service, The Prayer Channel, into NET (New Evangelism Television).
CodeProject: Asynchronous Method Invocation. Free source code and programming helpOverall, I will cover how to call methods asynchronously, how to pass parameters to such methods, and how to find out when a method completes execution. Finally, I will show the Command Pattern in use for simplifying some of the code.
I've read a little about this in one of the PC/Mac magazines I take, but I take four so don't know which one now. Just wondering if this will really work and if any of you readers are working on this project.
Lawmaker plans bill on net neutralityWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in January that would bar Internet providers like AT&T Inc from blocking Web content, setting up a renewed battle over so-called network neutrality.
How Obama's Internet Campaign Changed PoliticsOne of the many ways that the election of Barack Obama as president has echoed that of John F. Kennedy is his use of a new medium that will forever change politics. For Mr. Kennedy, it was television. For Mr. Obama, it is the Internet.
Amidst rumors of a possible Google Mozilla tie up, prevalent for years now, google rather decided to launch its own browser, Chrome. Google, which has always had that bit extra, to surprise people did it yet again.
After 2.0 release, Miguel de Icaza reflects on Mono's past and futureFew free and open source software projects have attracted such a range of reactions as Mono.
Obama and McCain Differ on Net NeutralityAccording to their position statements on the issues, John McCain is against Net neutrality and Barack Obama is for it. This makes it one of the few technology issues on which the candidates clearly disagree.
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