The paper describing Google’s $25 billion dollar equation.

On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite DVD ripping tools; today we’ve sifted through hundreds of comments to bring you the five most popular answers. Hit the jump for a closer look at five of the best and most popular DVD ripping tools, then cast your vote to determine the best ripper of the bunch.

The term “High Definition” is traditionally applied to a technology when a new innovation allows a noticeable improvement in quality or detail from an existing version. The superior picture quality of an HD TV for example. The improvement in telephone audio quality that HD-Telephony offers is far less profound than that of HD-TV or HD-Radio but it’

Open source projects have revolutionized operating systems, web servers, web browsers, and so why not carrier switches? The FreeSwitch open source project released its Release Candidate 1 (RC1) yesterday providing and by early accounts the software rocks.

Facebook has just turned on Chat in a “few networks” this morning and I think it’s a great implementation. While Facebook hasn’t announced an official rollout schedule, Chat will be gradually rolling out over the coming days.

You’ve finally decided to move all your email online to Google’s web-based service, Gmail. Great! But what about messages still going to your old email address(es)? You don’t have to notify all your contacts that your email address has changed—again. Gmail is not only an email host, it’s an email client, which can fetch mail from any number of exte

Remember when Facebook was the more professional alternative to MySpace? Now that the gates have opened for people to create applications, Facebook profiles have become cluttered catastrophes of html. Here’s 7 popular ones that take up valuable Scrabulous room.

Tips and tricks to uncover these concealed nuggets.

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has a Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. The members held a virtual hearing yesterday online in Second Life. The hearing’s subject is Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium.

15 WordPress plugins to enhance the blogging experience of advanced users, especially web developers and designers. Most are tested using a default installation of Wordpress 2.3.1