iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For Feb.3rd, here are the highlights:

• the iPhone is now the #1 mobile (phone) gaming device. There are well-founded rumours of a much more powerful iPhone this year. The current iPhone is as powerful as the Sega Dreamcast
• Google had a technical problem last weekend, with all search results marked as malware, which spurred reactions around the web. CNET asks the questions if there’s a threat of monoculture, with the problem of over-dependancy on a sole provider
• There was the slashdot effect, where a link on slashdot would bring a website to its knees. There was then the digg effect. Now mashable tells about the “Tweet effect“, when a user with 40.000 followers links to page
• Internet Explorer’s usage slips, while Firefox (Safari and Google Chrome too) gains. IE has now just 65% of the market, back to more than 90% a couple of years ago.
• Finally, Google has released a new version of Google Earth, with lots of new features to explore the Earth. The biggest one is the ability to view seas, the planet Mars, plus many others that you can see in the video.