Tick-Tock Goes the AP Ticker

Bad, bad news for poor little freelance folks like me who try to eke out a living bringing news to all you hoes (but I say that with love and affection).

The Associated Press is putting the smack down concerning people obtaining permission to use their news ticker. Mind you, this includes search engines like Google and Yahoo. Newspapers are going to bear the brunt of this, it seems like. If permission is not obtained, the Associated Press is going to sue yo' ass.

I have to be honest here. I do not understand this a lick. I started yawning halfway through the article (eff you, A.P., it wasn't one of yours), and just stopped reading. But it seems like a big bunch of crock. I could be biased, considering that I certainly rely on their articles quite a bit for certain things. It kind of makes me just want to tune into AOL's news now, just to be spiteful.

Gamers, geeks, and Internet fr33ks: rejoice!

Experts in Australia have apparently created a new technology that is supposed to allow people to surf the Internet one hundred times faster than they do now. For that matter, a professor working with the product says that this probably won’t cost users anything.
The new technology evidently works to increase and improve the performance of optic fibers; the professor involved likened it to a scratch on a piece of glass, wherein the circuits will use the glass as a kind of path that the information will follow.
It’ll be a while before this technology reaches the market, but right now tests have conclusively shown that, in its current stages, this new technique has made surfing the web sixty times faster. Researchers on the product believe that with some more development, it can easily be one hundred times faster.