"web" news, interviews, and features

News about web

• Google opens new Melbourne office

  But headquarters will remain in Sydney

• Domain administrator auDA members call for CEO and directors' heads to roll

  Mutiny movement comes at a tumultuous time for the independent member organisation

• Optus Wholesale 100Gbps international service goes live

  Lights up 100Gbps service on Southern Cross Cable

• SingTel subsidiary, Amobee, spends $US385m on marketing tech acquisitions

  Advertising platform buys Adconion and Kontera

• Google names Australia’s most Web-savvy towns

  Territories include Cockburn, Darwin, Holdfast Bay, Launceston, North Sydney, Port Phillip, South Canberra, and Sunshine Coast

• UberGlobal launches Australian public Cloud

  Range of products include Hosted Lync from Microsoft

Features about web

• The web is dead. Who cares?

  Those graphical sites are becoming a smaller part of the bustling traffic on the Internet, but that's OK.

• Ways to share spare CPU cycles

  Seek aliens, fight cancer and solve puzzles by donating your spare CPU cycles to join a virtual supercomputer.

• Google Wave flops: What Google service will go next?

  Here are four Google projects that I think will be the next to crash and burn.