(WIRED) -- You want it. You want it desperately. You want it desperately, but you don't even know what it is.Such is consumer desire for 4G data connectivity in mobile handsets. Call it proof positive that the phone carriers' marketing efforts have paid off -- this despite slow 4G infrastructure roll-outs, and actual 4G data rates that fall far, far below the promise of the 4G spec.In-Stat, a market research firm, recently announced that 75% of more than 1,200 surveyed consumers listed 4G as one...

Whether you have spent one day or many years as a Web professional, there is always something more that can be learned and mastered to push you and your Web enterprise to greater awareness and profitability. Let's dig deeper into the fundamentals of Web success and explore the underlying structure. The Big Idea: What does every great business have in common? Big ideas - and not just big ideas, but great ones, reasonable ones, informed ones. The most fundamental element of your success, and the...

With the exception of the Qur'an and pedagogical texts, Arabic is generally written without vowels or other graphic symbols that indicate how a word is pronounced. The reader is expected to fill these in from context. Some of the graphic symbols include sukuun, which is placed over a consonant to indicate that it is not followed by a vowel;shadda, written over a consonant to indicate it is doubled; and hamza, the sign of the glottal stop, which can be written above or below ا (alif) at the...

(CNN) -- When Apple introduced Siri, the talking, voice-activated "personal assistant" that will come with its new iPhone 4S, the Web leaped to the obvious, rational conclusion: That it's a sinister, potentially alien artificial intelligence that's bound to kill us all."If you're wondering, 'Siri' can be pronounced two ways: 'Skynet' and 'GLaDOS," wrote Twitter user @AshleyEsqueda.That's a reference to 1) the computer system in the "Terminator" stories that gains self-awareness and unleashes killer...

Either you believe or not, we don't have very a qualified environment to have great hackers in Lebanon as the combination of the country's society and politics does limited the mind of hackers and technology geeks, thus you don't find a lot of tech conferences and events. People in Lebanon are focusing on prestige, live in a high level environment without taking into consideration that following up on tech progress and development is one of the keys of having a high level life to walk with other...

By Scott Clark As a web developer, I have delved into many different JavaScript libraries and frameworks. Through my work with these libraries, I have come up with a discriminating list of some of the more important JavaScript libraries that should be in every developer's toolbox. YUI LibraryThe Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Library is a combination of utilities, controls and widgets that were written in JavaScript and CSS. YUI is used to create interactive web apps, and is free to use, falling...

* UberMedia, maker of of the Twitter app UberSocial, announced Chime.in, a new social platform centered on relevance and monetization for publishers. "Existing systems don't really have a good way of pulling good content and putting it up top," CEO Bill Gross told Fortune last week. Users create posts called "Chimes," which can include images, videos, polls, and links and are shareable on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. They're easily sortable and searchable by interests, the people sharing them,...

To keep your personal information and your finances safe, here are five things you need to know about online security.1. You are now under attack by machinesAfter a hacking scare at Gawker Media last year, security firm Duo Security showed that it could crack 200,000 user passwords in under an hour using a "brute force" attack, in which computers try millions of passwords until one works.Popular picks like "123456" take seconds to crack, but one with at least eight upper- and lowercase letters, numbers,...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Hewlett-Packard announced Thursday that it will continue selling personal computers after all, reversing an earlier decision to exit one of its core business lines.Yet HP now says it believes that PCs should be part of its future.The company shocked Wall Street and the tech industry alike when it announced Aug. 18 that its board was exploring "strategic alternatives" for its Personal Systems unit. That division mainly comprises HP's PC business, which is the world's largest....

Level: Intermediate For many web developers, making simple requests and receiving simple responses is all that will ever be needed. However, for developers that want to truly master Ajax, a complete understanding of HTTP status codes, ready states, and the XMLHttpRequest object is required. In this article, you will learn about the different status codes, and how browsers handle them differently, as well as about the lesser-used HTTP requests...