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Networking giant Cisco has updated its Visual Networking Index (VNI) with new predictions. The company forecasts that by 2021, there will be 4.6 billion Internet users, up from 3.3 billion in 2016. And total Internet traffic four years from now will top 3.3 zettabytes, up from 1.2 zettabytes last year. The company pegs much of […]

The New York Times has unveiled a new tool called Moderator that automates analysis of article comments. Until recently, the paper employed a team of 14 people to read through and approve as many as 12,000 comments per day before posting them to its website. Moderator, developed in partnership with Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw is now […]

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) have been granting interviews to a number of media outlets in an effort to defend their anti-net neutrality efforts. When asked what net neutrality is, Pai said, “It’s a great slogan. But in reality what it involves is Internet regulation, and the basic […]

China has long prevented its citizens from accessing Web content that the government finds objectionable. Now the Communist country is adding celebrity gossip to that list. It has ordered Internet companies, including Tencent and Baidu, to shut down 60 social media accounts that regularly feature celebrity gossip./p> “Websites must … adopt effective measures to keep […]

A poll conducted by research firm Ipsos and funded by Mozilla found that 76 percent of Americans say that they support net neutrality. And even though Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on little these days, support for net neutrality was strong within both parties: 81 percent of Democrats and 73 percent of Republicans expressed […]

Citing “two people familiar with the matter,” Reuters is reporting that the European Commission (EC) will impose fines on Google by August. The EU antitrust agency has been investigating Google for more than seven years on charges that the search engine favored its own shopping service in its search results. Under European law, the total […]

Market research firm Gartner has released a new report titled “Survey Analysis: The Mobile App Development Trends That Will Impact Your Enterprise in 2017.” It says that enterprises are encountering obstacles related to native mobile or hybrid development and that they are turning to mobile Web apps as an alternative. “It’s encouraging to see significant […]

Apple has announced that it has added full support for WebAssembly to WebKit, the open source engine that powers its Safari browser. Apple describes WebAssembly as a “no-nonsense sidekick to JavaScript.” The technology allows browsers to run languages other than JavaScript, such as C++. Recently, Web Assembly has been gaining a lot of traction. Google […]

Following the most recent terrorist attacks in London, UK Prime Minister Theresa May said that extremism had found a “safe space” online and called for greater regulation on Web companies. She said, “We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed. Yet that is precisely what the Internet and the big companies […]

One of the most influential websites from the early days of the Internet is about to fade away. Pinboard has announced that as of June 15, Delicious will become a read-only website, and users will no longer be able to save new bookmarks to the site. Pinboard acquired Delicious, which was one of its competitors, […]

Confirming earlier reports, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has told website publishers it plans to add an adblocker to the Chrome browser next year. However, Google has promised to give website owners at least six months to prepare for the new technology, which will be enabled by default. However, the new feature […]

Every year, Mary Meeker, former Wall Street analyst and current venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins, publishes a heavily anticipated report about the state of the Internet. The 2017 version is out, and here are some key takeaways from a Web development perspective: Internet usage grew 10 percent, which is on par with previous years, but […]