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Posts Tagged ‘Billions’

Google Instant Will Save 350 Million Hours Of User Time Per Year

Here at the Google Search Event in San Francisco, Google engineer Ben Gomes brought up the fact that the search engine serves up billions of queries every day, the average query length being 20 characters and the average time for a user to pick a result being 15 seconds. “There are billions of queries and [...]

vinyly turns your ashes to vinyl, gives you one last chance to be a hit at parties

and vinyly

I find this beyond creepy but hey, there are billions of people in the world, so I guess there must be people out there who would just love for their remains to be turned into vinyl records. And Vinyly exists to fill that demand (there is a demand for this right?). For an equally ridiculous [...]

Firefox Friday, the back to school edition: 10 add-ons to make education less dire

Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers, EducationYou may have noticed we’ve got our back to school jive on here at Download Squad. We figure it’s worth interrupting your usual programming for a week or two — after all, once the kids are back at school, we’re all free to do whatever we like until Christmas! Woohoo! Still, [...]

First Drive: 2012 Infiniti M35 Hybrid

Seven minutes. That’s all the time we’ve been allotted behind the wheel of the 2012 Infiniti M35 Hybrid at Nissan’s Oppama proving ground just outside of Yokosuka City, Japan. The near-production spec car we’ve come all this way to spend a paltry 420 seconds driving is a hugely significant vehicle for Nissan’s luxury arm, as [...]

American Automotive Bailout: Victory on the Horizon?

I am no politician, and I doubt I’ll ever intend on attempting to understand politicians because I believe many of them don’t have the sense that God gave a goat. One thing that I do know a little about is the automotive industry and what is put on blast in the media, on TV, and [...]

the $41 netbook: will it play farmville?

40 dollar netbook

I don’t want to mock the guys who make this netbook. I can’t think of any reason why I or anyone I know would want to buy but hey, there are billions of people on Earth. Someone’s bound to find a use for this, even though it only runs Windows CE, has a 300Mhz ARM [...]

While Everyone Bitches, Facebook’s New Social Plugins Surpass 100,000 Installs

Facebook Connect launched in late 2008. And now, a year and a half later, some 250,000 sites around the web are using it. Meanwhile, Facebook’s new social plugins (the kind using the new Open Graph) have been out for three weeks. Already, those are on over 100,000 sites Facebook confirmed today. That’s pretty amazing when [...]

Mobile Phone Recycling Prices Rise on Average to £65

The mobile phone arena is moving more and more towards recycling and here in the UK many mobile phone users sell on their old mobile phone for recycling to online mobile recycling websites, but there can be a big discrepancy between those mobile recycling websites when it comes to how much cash you can get [...]

Firefox & Facebook Friday Five!

Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, BrowsersThere’s slim pickings from the Mozilla camp this week. Other than the release of Lorentz (3.6.4) (out of process plugins!!), there’s really nothing Firefoxy to report on. Instead, we’re going to roll the Firefox column into another topic starting with the letter ‘F’: Facebook. Still, hang in there: I’m going to [...]

Experiments at Bell Labs show 300Mbps possible over conventional copper twisted-pair DSL

Filed under: InternetNot content to give up and suckle on the buzzworded cable teat just yet, Bell Labs has just successfully tested a variant of DSL that is capable of up to 800Mbps — about 100 megabytes per second — using just a pair of traditional DSL connections. The range is short — only a [...]

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