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| iPods Held Responsible for the Death of Internet |  | iPods, portable media players, as well as the vast majority of the consumer electronics gadgets are allegedly posing a threat to the future development of the Internet. According to a study conducted by Professor Jonathan Zittrain, such devices are sealed plastic shells that are allegedly turning their users into passive ones of technology, similar to guinea pigs.
Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of Internet governance and regul ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 10:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Slow Internet Cuts Down on the Energy Bill |  | The computer networks that make the Internet are the biggest energy powerhogs worldwide. As the price of energy increases, more and more signals point to the fact that energy savings across the Internet will be the key to a greener Earth.
According to a New Scientist ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cubans Get the Right to Legally Purchase PCs |  | The Cuban government has just authorized personal computer sales across the island, putting an end to the previous restrictions on technology. The introduction of personal computers comes shortly after the communist government lifted a ban on mobile telecommunications.
Since the United States government is still holding the technology embargo on miscellaneous technologies, the only available model is a tower-style QTECH PC an ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FBI to Snag Criminals in the Internet Backbone |  | During the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives meeting held on Wednesday, the US Federal Bureau of Investigations has offered a sneak preview of its upcoming actions to fight crime in the cyberspace.
During the meeting, the US congressman Darrell Issa tackled the topic of online crimes and of how the FBI could protect civilians, government agencies and military structures from malicious Internet users. More th ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| UK - a Nation of Speed-Hungry Broadband Users |  | People like broadband connections for the simple reason that they're faster than other types of connections and very often, they're quite cheap. However, a broadband connection allows users to do lots of web activities which would be impossible without a high-speed connection, including here playing games online, downloading movies or music. Although we all like broadband Internet connections, it seems like Britons are ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AT&T Warns Users on Internet Low Disk Space |  | US-based telecommunications giant AT&T has issued a warning regarding the fact that the Internet's current architecture will reach its maximum capacity until 2010. The study conducted by AT&T relies on the assumption that there will be no other investments in the Internet's infrastructure.
According to Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, the currently existing Internet servers wil ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Chinese Internet Users Can Tunnel Out of the Censorship Wall |  | The information available on the Internet is not equally available in all the world's regions, and the state of facts in China is the best example of how a government filters the data users can have access to. Popular sites like Youtube and Wikipedia are only two of the many web addresses that get blocked by military-grade firewalls.
Chinese people have yet another reason to celebrate, as a small startup called Anchor Fre ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Black Holes Make Data Mysteriously Disappear |  | Server downtime and maintenance are not the only factors that sometimes block users from reaching their favorite webpages. It's true that server and hosting technical problems are the main reasons the websites fail to load, but researchers have unveiled another mysterious possibility that prevents you from reaching your desired page.
"There's an assumption that if you have a working Internet connection then you ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Video: Intel Enters the Mobile Internet Era, Unveils Clamshell Device |  | The Intel Developer Forum has just started in Shanghai, and it seems that the main topic on the agenda is the upcoming Atom processor. The low-energy, low-performance chip will primarily target at the ultra-mobile PCs, Mobile Internet Devices and handheld gadgets.
Intel has demonstrated during today's sessions the first prototype of Mobile Internet Device and has opened new ways in the communications field. Although there ... [read more >>] | | 01 April 2008, 10:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Peru Teachers Get OLPC Computer Training |  | The One Laptop Per Child charity foundation is heading towards the Peru villages this week in order to offer notebook training for the teachers from remote rural villages. The organization will set up training centers in a few regional cities, where teachers will meet the green, rugged XO notebooks.
Teachers will be the first to receive technical information and training regarding the inexpensive ultra-mobile computers as par ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 20:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Suicide Machine Kills Australian Elder |  | As if death by suicide wasn't bad enough, an Australian man from Queensland decided to build a suicide machine which would do the job for him. 81-year-old Pete Tovey took the plans of the machine from the Internet, built the rig, then shot himself to death. According to the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper, the device consisted of a handgun and an electric jig saw. The police officers at the scene of the incident said that indeed the man ... [read more >>] | | 22 March 2008, 07:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Be Careful What You Buy Online – It Might Contain a Gun! |  | Internet auctions often turn up interesting items being found hidden within the original item sold. Last month, a laptop bought on eBay had a DVD containing Secret Service information hidden under the keyboard and the machine itself was encrypted to smithereens. That turned out well, but it’s not always harmless data storage devices that surface.
A couple living in Verden, in the northern part of Germany, bought a stroller onl ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Lord Delivered His Word into Cybersquatter’s Heart |  | Religion has always had the weirdest influence on people, who went to war over it on repeated occasions (and still are), despite the predominantly peaceful doctrines the churches praise in sermon every week. But hey, if it’ll stop a true believer that happened to talk the talk but failed to walk the walk, religion is well interpreted in that situation.
Heareth thou the word of our Lord, speaking in tongues of men of the wrong ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 06:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Thou Shall Not Trust the Anti-Fraud Sign |  | Change the way you're thinking about the SSL certification, for it is not that safe, researchers from Netcraft advised. Don’t go rushing ahead and provide all the personal information, for it might get stolen, and other phrases to that effect. Why’s that? Because the companies assuring that the site is safe for visiting are not God, and because four sites that have been boasting with their Extended Validation SSL certificate ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2008, 08:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Airport Online Provocative Sites Blocked |  | The Denver International Airport has set its Wi-Fi service to block out sites that have potentially racy imagery. The decision was taken because the management considers that it’s better to deal with infrequent complaints about access, than handle angry parents whose children might be exposed to pornographic content, according to airport spokesman Chuck Cannon.
"Welcome back to the cold war, ladies and gentlemen, please buckle your ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FBI Violates Online Privacy for Fourth Year in a Row |  | "Did you do it?"
"No!"
"FBI, we have the documentation right here!"
"Oh, all right, I might have…"
That’s the short version of the announcement the Federal Bureau of Investigation made today, paving the way for the audit to be issued on the 9th of March this year. The abuse allegedly was a result of investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies in 2006.
There’s no telling how the nex ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2008, 06:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Thai Buddhist Monks Urged Off Women on Internet |  | Buddha means ‘awake,’ and some Buddhist monks seem to have taken the name a tad too far and literally. On Tuesday, Thai officials have asked monks to avoid using social networking sites to woo women, according to Reuters. One advocacy group found that some of the holy men, instead of sharing their enlightenment, were actually trying to convince women to come to their temple and have sex with them. I remember the peons in Warcraft ... [read more >>] | | 04 March 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Iran Pulling the Plug on the Internet |  | The 14th of March will come hammering down a huge decision from the Iranian Government, that to shut the Internet down as a whole. Being ranked fourth in the top of press freedom infringing, after Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, Iran won’t have any type of online covering of the elections day.
The government officially wants to ensure that it has unimpeded internet service for the election, but it just had an upgrade in that dir ... [read more >>] | | 04 March 2008, 15:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 4 Episodes of Friends, Downloaded for $22,000 |  | Machines connecting to wireless networks and costing their owners tons of money aren’t breaking news, as a matter of fact they’re old history. Except for the fact that it is a continuous nuisance, the fact could go unnoticed by anybody else, except for those paying the bills. But, when the bottom figure shows close to $22,000, it’s something to voice over.
The Telegraph tells the story of a couple being faced with this very pr ... [read more >>] | | 04 March 2008, 09:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Former FBI Agent Proposes Second Internet |  | In an article addressing Internet security in general and cyber crime and criminals in particular, Patrick J. Dempsey, Chief Information Security Officer for Janney Montgomery Scott, and former FBI agent, had an interesting and yet disturbing solution to the problem. He proposed creating a second Internet, one for which users should be required to register in order to be able to use.
"[…] Knowing all the possibilities with disguisi ... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| iMacs in Every City Inn Suite |  | Whether you're prompted to spend a few days in a hotel as part of your job, or whether you're doing it for peace and relaxation like the couple pictured left (click to enlarge), City Inn Suites are the way to go. Aside the breathtaking services and complimentary offerings, the Inn also offers ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Girls Rule the Web |  | Contrary to popular belief that has geeky looking guys standing in front of the monitor for hours and doing stuff that matters, a Pew Internet & American Life Project study has showed that it’s actually girls that get most involved with the web and all that it stands for. And I did say girls, not women, as the research focused mostly on teenagers.
As difficult to admit as it is, it looks like young females are actually mor ... [read more >>] | | 22 February 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Not Online Sex Predator but Lover, Study Shows |  | The framed image of the guy lurking in the shadow, deceiving his way into a date with an unsuspecting youngster and later raping him or her, was shattered to pieces by a study conducted in a report issued by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham.
Janis Wolak of the team conducting it wiped the above image and instead brought one that, she says, based on the study’s results, ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 14:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Censoring Anti-censorship Site – World Premiere? |  | Finland has a very strict non-child pornography rule that makes all the sense in the world. At least their heart’s in the right place, because their mind seems to be wondering about. Over 1,700 legal websites are being censored by the authorities, and among them lapsiporno.info, a site who was used by its owner to publicly criticize the censorship program.
The list was not made available by the officials, but Matti Nikki, the ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Online Sex Auction Delivers Blow to the Groin |  | When you win an online sex auction, the only idea that pops to mind due to absence of blood is that you are the absolute Master of the World, the Universe itself must have conspired to get you laid. Let’s face it, if you entered such an auction for other reasons than losing a bet, the only thought that’s left is a countdown to the big day.
One woman, auctioning her let’s call it love life, has just won a court battle that will ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 16:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung’s New See’N’Search Technology Merges Google, Apple TV |  | The Internet is already one of the world's most important information and media delivery systems, but the role it plays into pushing entertainment programming into one's living room might become even more important on the future. And this is exactly why the Korean company Samsung has just unveiled its See’N’Search technology, which allows users to retreive Internet information and media-related content onto their TV scr ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hackers Fraud Online Scammers |  | Usually, the man who gets others to do his job for him is either called ‘boss’ or just ‘smart’. Wait till you see the latest sample of hacking ingenuity: Mr. Brain, a Moroccan group was just found to be offering free phishing kits for scammer wannabes for free. The catch is that they have some code included somewhere that will actually send back to the ‘mother ship’ all the really valuable information.
In other words, they have the new ... [read more >>] | | 13 February 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| China Cracks Down on Internet and Games |  | All the news coming from the Western world could make somebody completely oblivious about what’s going on in the Far East, where communism hasn’t burst its bubble yet. Censoring video sites, sweeping Internet cafes and hunting down web sites and computer markets for possible dangerously violent games just warm the Chinese people to their government.
In all fairness, their intentions are good. The authorities are only trying t ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 06:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Illegal Downloaders Facing Ban |  | Britain was one of the first countries to embrace the new IFPI proposition as a possible solution to stopping Internet piracy and infringement of copyrights. The IFPI, suggested by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, thought that the best way to handle the crimes mentioned above would be if the Internet Service Provider policed their own networks and hunted down those who didn’t honor the producer’s digital rights.
The Times wer ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Biggest-ever Spanish Probe into Internet Fraud |  | Internet crime is very alluring because it is fairly easy to commit and it doesn’t take the mastermind planning required to rob a bank. It’s mostly a routine job of going through credit card numbers and transacting from others’ accounts into their favor or promising items that you don’t have and then disappearing into the blue with the money. It’s not really that easy, but it’s got no kicks to it other than the law kicking your b ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 06:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Trolls Remain Anonymous, and That’s the Law! |  | California, the state that decided that there can be no smoking in public places (bars, pubs and clubs included), just made another decision that will be regarded by some Internet users as crazy in a very annoying way. A court has just declared that trolls are to remain anonymous, because what they write are mostly assertions and not actual facts, and are not suitable to be sued under the defamation law, and under the protection ... [read more >>] | | 08 February 2008, 15:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Seize the Best Graffiti Spots via Google Maps |  | That’s the name of the website that shows you the best places you could "spray" your contribution to urban art. Based on an offline art project exhibited in Berlin, in 2007, the switching to the Internet can’t do the movement anything but good, as long as it unites every artist’s vision in a global work of art.
Discarded by many, including invariably the local authorities, Graffiti is, according to Wikipedia, the nam ... [read more >>] | | 08 February 2008, 09:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Holocaust Banned in Schools? |  | An email claiming to know that students will no longer find out about the Holocaust in schools was dispatched last week and forwarded time and time again. A chain letter that could have created serious diplomatic problems for the United Kingdom, it was also found on various social networking sites, doing all the more damage.
"Recently this week, UK removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it "offended ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 08:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Stands a Good Chance to Grab Yahoo |  | Recent reports surrounding the Yahoo-selling-out story have revealed that the American public corporation's chief executive and co-founder, Jerry Yang, is not exactly a big ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Future of Porn: Going Back to Its Roots |  | Porn is the dominant industry that has ever prospered and which received an unexpected boom when the Internet came to be the interconnecting web it is. Pornography represents, according to some analysts, up to 80 or 85 of the content on the Internet and such a heritage bar is pretty high to reach for new sites or producing companies unless they work hard at it. No innuendo there.
The only problem is that the audience of such sites[ADMAR ... [read more >>] | | 04 February 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Afghan Student Sentenced to Death, Sentence to Be Carried |  | While I covered the story earlier, at the time that happened, Sayed Pervez Kambaksh still had a chance to escape the faith set before him by his peers. Not anymore, as the Senate passed a motion this week that supports the sharia (oversees solel ... [read more >>] | | 04 February 2008, 06:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox Users Less Likely to Fall for Porn Scams |  | A while ago there was a supposedly "viral" advertising campaign against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer series, created by Mozilla, that claimed to have better and more tech savvy users for its Firefox browser than the competition. Dissed at the time for the way it was presented, there is still some truth to that, as DriveSentry’s John Safa came to acknowledge.
He told Web User that people using Firefox are "more aware of a ... [read more >>] | | 01 February 2008, 19:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ten More Years for Internet Infrastructure Growth |  | Cisco, the top provider of routers and switches that direct Internet traffic, and by that, one of the companies holding the weight of Internet on its shoulders, has said in the voice of its Chief Executive, John Chambers, that the continuing build of networks will be lasting for a decade from now on. The deadline he mentions doesn’t sound very encouraging on the long run because it leaves a question hanging: What next?
"I see this ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 13:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Way the Internet Brings Old School Medicine Back |  | The medical system is always in need of a change, be it in the way patients are treated, or in the fees being paid to doctors or by doctors. That’s why Dr. Howard Stark decided to take his practice online: no more queues in front of his office, and the advice he gives those turning to him via email is free. Plus, it adds some personal detail, because in a message you get to talk about something else, not just the pain and problems.
That ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 10:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Careful with That Ad Expiring Date! |  | Advertising is the proverbial hen that lays the golden egg for the Internet industry, but companies should be very careful as to how they approach the subject. It can bring in tremendous income, but as the latest court decision regarding it shows, it can also leave you with a bitter taste in your mouth. Depends on how serious you consider it to be.
Be Broadband has been found in breach of the Advertising Standards Authority’s ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Oh, the Broadband Problems… |  | The age of Internet life is nigh (if it’s not here already)! The percentage of time people spend on the web is growing every day, as the services offered through what I consider to be the greatest invention of the XXth century grow in number and usability. If you want groceries, you first check Google Maps to see where you could get them, then you check out Street View for a parking spot and then you tune in to a site that tells you if the ... [read more >>] | | 25 January 2008, 20:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Web Piracy Is ISP’s Fault, the IFPI Says |  | Internet piracy is the number one problem on the web right now, it is the sole purpose of huge sums of money being lost every year by media industries, so at one point they got tired and sick of it and they tried to crack it down. Needless to say that with the legislation still under development (at the time) they couldn’t do all that much, but they could, in change, find, with the help of the authorities, track down some individuals respo ... [read more >>] | | 25 January 2008, 16:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Policeman Posing as 13-year-old Girl to Catch Pedophiles |  | Jim Murray, a retired 69-year-old police chief has seen a case once that haunted him until he found the answer. It was about a 13-year-old girl that was abducted and then killed by somebody she had met online. It was enough to have his hair stand on end and decide that if there was something to be done about preventing this kind of things from ever happening again, he’d do it. Empowered by the photos of his six grandchildren that ... [read more >>] | | 25 January 2008, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Pay-Per-Play Audio Ads? No, Thanks! |  | Advertising is the most profitable way to make cash with the help of the Internet. It’s been approached from every angle and direction, it’s been considered the saving of many companies that would otherwise collapse financially. Come to think about the efforts going into the industry, advertising is no longer a need for business, it’s also a trend, and like any trend, it is constantly being considered for "fashion" chan ... [read more >>] | | 25 January 2008, 07:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet to Blame for Suicides in South Wales Last Year? |  | In the long list of police denials, we can now include this one: they have openly said that there is no Internet suicide cult but officers are actively checking the email, online chats and SMS exchanged by the teens who decided that it was all to much to bear. Although taking your own life is a great means of natural selection, when somebody ends up resorting to it, there must be something really wrong. I’m not inventing the wheel, but app ... [read more >>] | | 24 January 2008, 17:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Who Do Women Trust? Friends and Family, or the Internet? |  | One of the most embarrassing things to admit in front of a stranger is anything related to health. Even if he/she is paid to listen and to give advice, being shy about certain areas of the body or about the medical history is pretty common between both men and women alike. What set the two genders apart was who they turned to when their misconceptions prevented them from seeing a health specialist: men mostly tried to "walk it off&quo ... [read more >>] | | 23 January 2008, 07:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| U.S. Community Be Warned, China’s Gonna Getcha! |  | Looking at China when it comes to the Internet is like looking into the little box where you keep the little things that you’ve carried through since childhood: a little tin soldier, the leg of an action figure, a button, a couple of the first love letters you ever received or those you never had the strength and courage to send. It’s like looking back into your past, everything is gleaming with familiarity.
China’s online community is ... [read more >>] | | 21 January 2008, 06:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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