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99main Internet Services is a Norwich, Connecticut based Internet Service Provider, established in 1996. It is our mission to provide fast, reliable and affordable Internet access and technical support to home and business users across Connecticut. If you need more from your ISP, call us today - we do it all! Internet Access, Domain Hosting, E-mail Services, Spam Filtering, Business Class Connections (T1's / Fiber) and Technical Support. We continue to grow by offering solid local service and tech support with no gimmicks, no hidden requirements and no long term contracts. 99main does not "re-sell" services from another provider - we are a local company and the network and bandwidth are our own. We support all operating systems (Windows, Mac, Unix) and any browser or SMTP/POP3 E-mail program you choose. We have dedicated servers for WWW (domain hosting), FTP, DNS, E-mail & Spam Filtering. What does all this mean for your home or business? Better throughput, faster speeds, fewer dropped connections and the best tech support in the area! To find out more about our services, see our Account Options.
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2010 Thursday, August 19 - Facebook Unveils Long-Awaited Feature: PLACES
Facebook Places is a new application for mobile phones that enables Facebook users to alert their friends to their current location. Although the service is currently only available in the US, Facebook said it will be rolling out the tool to other countries in the coming months. It enables people to provide a real-time update of where they are and what they’re doing when they’re on the move. It means people can tell their friends about a cool restaurant or a film that’s worth going to see, or even a good spot for a picnic. Facebook believes Places will also enable its users to take advantage of unexpected coincidences – such as discovering that they are at the same concert as their friends. Users can “check in” when they arrive at a location, just as in rival service Foursquare, and see whether any of their friends are nearby. You can learn more about how to use Facebook Places by visiting Mashable's web site and reading their "Places Field Guide" here.
2010 Friday, August 6 - Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta Coming in September
Microsoft plans to release a beta version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser sometime in September. The new browser is eagerly anticipated, especially by Web developers; Internet Explorer 9 is a big improvement on Internet Explorer 8, with considerably improved standards compliance and functionality. News of the beta is certainly welcome, but there's still a marked contrast between Microsoft's release policy and the more frequent updates of browsers like Firefox and Chrome. For all of its improvements, there's a good chance that Microsoft's browser will have been surpassed by its competition by the time it finally ships. No release date has been announced by Microsoft, but most believe that the final version will not arrive until 2011. If you would like to take Internet Explorer 9 for a test drive, Microsoft has provided a sneak peek on their web site here.
2010 Friday, July 30 - Apple Updates Safari, Turns on Extensions
Apple released an update to its Safari web browser earlier this week. Safari 5.0.1 is available from Apple as a free download for Windows and for Mac OS X (Leopard or better). Mac users can also find it in Software Update. This is an incremental upgrade, but it comes with one big new feature: Safari now has a real platform for third-party extensions, a feature that Firefox and Chrome have had for some time. Safari 5 arrived in early June, and in addition to dozens of other enhancements (including the much-discussed Reader feature), it included a new architecture for creating lightweight browser extensions that enhance and personalize web pages and web services. This week's update to 5.0.1 now lets you install and run those extensions. Apple has also launched a new Extensions Gallery where you can browse the available extensions and download them. You can read more about this new version of Safari at Webmonkey's web site here.
2010 Friday, July 23 - Google Promises to Release New Builds of Chrome Every Six Weeks, and Chrome 6 Beta Is Right Around the Corner
With their Chrome web browser, Google has always been obsessed with speed. And now they’re speeding up another aspect of it: how often stable builds are released. The goal now is to release a new stable version of the browser every six weeks — about twice as fast as they currently do, Google says. In other words, get ready for Chrome 6, 7, 8, and 9 coming soon. Google does note that this six week cycle is “running under ideal conditions,” so it’s possible it may slip from time to time. Still, it’s pretty exciting how fast they will be developing new builds. Even if the version numbers don’t mean much, the "other" browsers out there (IE, Firefox, Safari) are going to have to make sure their users know that, or it may look like Chrome is running laps around them. To learn more about the upcoming beta release of Google Chrome 6, you can visit Webmonkey's web site here.
2010 Thursday, July 8 - Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta Version
It’s finally here: Mozilla has released the first beta for Firefox 4. The new version of the world’s second most popular web browser, has been hotly anticipated for almost a year. Today however, it transitions from concept to reality, with many more betas to come until its official release, tentatively scheduled for November 2010. Firefox 4 will be a major upgrade from its predecessors. It not only includes a redesign of the user interface (tabs are now on top except for the Mac version), but a wave of additional features, including enhanced HTML5 support, hardware-accelerated HD video, WebSockets and enhanced add-on support via Jetpack. You can read more about the new beta version of Firefox 4 at Computerworld's web site here.
2010 Tuesday, June 22 - FCC Holding Closed-Door Meetings over Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission is reportedly holding closed-door meetings with phone and cable companies in the hopes of coming to some sort of arrangement on how the agency regulates broadband Internet service. Broadband providers were not exactly thrilled with the idea, and the media reform crowd is going nuts over reports from the Wall Street Journal that the FCC is holding these closed door meetings with lobbyists from AT&T, Verizon, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, and Internet companies like Google and Skype in a bid to reach a compromise deal on the agency's proposed net neutrality rules. The move comes several days after the FCC opened a public comment period on how it should proceed regarding broadband Internet regulation. The commission has proposed a so-called "third way," which would narrowly reclassify the transmission of data as a telecommunications service that the agency could directly regulate, balanced by a hands-off approach to other aspects. As a result, Monday's meeting included a discussion about how the FCC could avoid fundamental changes to its Internet regulation rules, but still be able to enforce "net neutrality" rules, the Journal said. They are expected to meet again on Tuesday. You can read more about the ongoing issue of Net Neutrality at the Cyber Telecom web site here.
2010 Tuesday, June 8 - Microsoft Quietly Turns on Free Version of Office Web Apps
Officially joining the browser-based productivity game, Microsoft has released the browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. The Web-based version of Word, like that for Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint, allows for document viewing, sharing, and lightweight editing. The applications are free to consumers. The Office Web Apps, as the programs are called, are slimmed down versions of the desktop counterparts, allowing for document viewing, sharing, and lightweight editing. Consumers get free access to the tools, along with 25GB of storage as part of Windows Live, while businesses can also host their own version of the Web Apps using the latest version of Sharepoint. The main catch is that using the browser-based versions require an active Internet connection. Microsoft's Web apps are designed to work on Macs, Windows PCs, and Linux-based computers using Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari (though Google's Chrome and other browsers may work as well). The free consumer versions are designed to be ad-supported, though Microsoft has said that for the foreseeable future it expects to show ads that encourage people to buy the full version of Office. Microsoft has also built the Web apps into a new version of Hotmail and created a labs effort called Docs.com that allows the sharing of Office documents over Facebook. Meanwhile, the desktop versions of Office went on sale to businesses last month and are due to hit retail shelves next week. If you have questions about these new free Web Apps, you can visit Microsoft's FAQ page here.
2010 Monday, May 24 - Google Rolling out Encrypted Version of its Search Engine
Google has begun rolling out an encrypted version of its search engine in an effort to protect Internet users from having their searches sniffed by others on their network. Like many of Google's other changes, it's being rolled out slowly to all users who choose to search securely. SSL search means that an encrypted connection is created between your browser and Google's servers. When you perform a search, your search terms and whatever results come back from them will only be visible to you—anyone who might be sniffing packets on your network (such as, say, Google!) won't be able to see that you're looking up cures for dandruff, the lyrics to every song in the musical Hair, or something worse. Google's encrypted search launch comes in the wake of the company's own WiFi data sniffing debacle, for which it may face probes in both Germany and the US (as well as a class-action lawsuit). This privacy slip-up is a stark reminder that much of our regular WiFi traffic can be snooped on by others on the network — doubly so if the network is open or shared, like the one you might be using at your local coffee shop. Google makes it clear that it will still collect search data when you use the secure search engine so that it can improve search quality. Users can tell they're on the encrypted version of Google by looking for the lock icon in the Google logo, as well as in their Web browsers. You can read more about this at Google's web site here.
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