Amazon posts better-than-expected Q3 sales results ahead of holiday season
Amazon.com Inc posted a narrower quarterly loss and grew gross sales by means of a better-than-expected 24 p.c on Thursday because it increased aggressively at residence and made inroads in another country, sending its shares up 8 percent. The revenue performance indicated strong momentum of the world’s largest web retailer going into the a very powerful U.S. holiday season, which some experts say could be the slowest in years....
The Arctic may soon get high-speed broadband
Norway could provide excessive-pace web in one of the crucial few places on the planet the place it can be no longer on hand: the Arctic. The Norwegian house centre has teamed up with Telenor satellite TV for pc Broadcasting to assess the feasibility of a brand new satellite TV for pc gadget overlaying northern areas out of doors the attain of present geostationary communications satellites. Space middle director Bo Andersen on...
British firms can trim web addresses: Dot UK
Businesses the use of the “.co.uk” net address area will be capable of shorten the suffix to easily “.up” next yr to assist make website online names snappier, British internet registrar Nominee said on Wednesday. The brand new area brings Britain in step with Germany’s .de and France’s .fro. it will be available from summer 2014 to all new internet sites, for the same value as an existing .co.uk...
Average Internet speed in India up 21 percent to 1.3Mbps: Akamai
Global average web speeds have crossed the 3Mbps mark, while reasonable web speeds in India are quite above the 1Mbps mark, in step with Akamai applied sciences’ State of the web file for the first quarter of 2013. Akamai is an web content delivery network and the document is in keeping with data amassed from the Akamai sensible Platform. consistent with Akamai, the measurements printed within the quarterly State of the web file...
Google Impact Challenge to reward four social entrepreneurs with Rs. 3 crore each
Google will award Rs. three crore each to four innovative ideas of social entrepreneurs who’re judged winners in a contest organised by way of the quest large on use technology in tackling quite a lot of problems. Inviting functions from Indian non-income on how they would use expertise to tackle issues in India and all over the world, Google stated, “four submissions judged to be one of the best will every receive Rs....
