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Samsung's smart TVs may be suffering from a severe case of being too good for their own good, in its home market at least. KT, the largest fixed-line operator in that country, has decided to deny Internet access to the apps loaded on Samsung Smart TVs. Apparently, those things eat up too much bandwidth, so dow... |
9 February 2012
09:16 GMT |
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The time when you admitted in public to using online dating websites to meet new people and felt ashamed for it is gone. A new study has shown that this is the second most popular method used today of finding Mr. or Mrs. Right. Whereas, before the Internet, people used to meet through friends and family or, at best, ... |
7 February 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Nadya Suleman is making good of her promise to do her best to provide for her 14 children without embarrassing herself like she did in the past. In a new episode of her web series, she has a few choice words for haters. After a few, much ridiculed attempts at becoming rich and famous, Suleman promised she would no ... |
1 February 2012
06:46 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for research firm Wedbush Morgan, stated that the upcoming digital revolution would affect console makers in very different ways and might have the biggest negative impact on Nintendo and its Wii devices.
Speaking to IndustryGamers, the analyst stat... |
25 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Currently, IPv4 is the Internet protocol used by most of the world, but the situation won't last much longer, according to the Internet Society.
Internet Protocol Version 6 is the next incarnation of the technology used to link computers, and, by extension, people, from all around the world.
Currently, IPv4 i... |
18 January 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Some people lack discipline when it comes to losing weight and, just in case they're sick and tired of delegating responsibility for their weight loss plans to someone else, LG has the perfect solution for all their troubles: the ThinQ Smart refrigerator. Unveiled at CES 2012, the fridge is more than just a home... |
13 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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There are now over 500 million internet users in China. In fact, there were 505 million at the end of November last year, so the number is even bigger now.
This puts the country firmly at the top as the biggest internet market in the world. The US, the second biggest internet market, is half the Chinese one, at 270 ... |
12 January 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Education is the first step towards progress, in every field of activity. Computer Aid is well aware of this; therefore, it plans to offer unprivileged children from African villages free access to computing rooms.
So far, the British organization has succeeded in sending eight solar-powered Internet cafes called Zu... |
28 December 2011
04:44 GMT |
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Recent statistics released in the United States show that prescription drug abuse has climbed to the rank of epidemic, with a large portion of the people taking such medication doing so without respecting directions. Doctors' ignorance and ready access to online pharmacies are equally responsible for this. The f... |
20 December 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Slowly, controversial Octomom Nadya Suleman is getting back into the good graces of industry people – or so one might think judging by the deals she managed to land just recently. She will soon star in her own web series, it has emerged.
Last time we heard of Suleman, she was either working or had just wrap... |
10 December 2011
05:36 GMT |
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The developers behind iTether, an iOS application that allowed iPhone owners to have have unlimited Internet tethering from their 3G connection, have confirmed that their software is no longer available on the iTunes App Store.Upon reporting on its approval in the App Store yesterday, I noted that there was a good ch... |
30 November 2011
05:01 GMT |
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A new version of Apple’s proprietary web browser, Safari, is now available for Mac and Windows customers with a bunch of fixes that improve the stability of the application, as well as other minor improvements and enhancements.According to the tech company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California... |
30 November 2011
02:44 GMT |
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Call this one “from the vaults of YouTube.” Since not everything has to be about movie trailers and music videos, here's a YouTube clip that we feel should get more attention that it's getting now. Uploaded the other day, the video has already gone viral. It features the so-called “Seoul B... |
10 November 2011
07:09 GMT |
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Trying to put the hype into numbers, McKinsey & Company concluded a research to evaluate the Internet's impact on the World's economy. It approximates the Internet's total revenue at around $8 trillion.The research only took data from 13 countries, the G8, meaning Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,... |
7 November 2011
11:26 GMT |
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Scientists at the Rhode Island Hospital report in a new paper that the Internet provides all the capabilities needed for doctors to assess the effectiveness of a prescribed depression treatment, without actually having to see the patient.
In other words, the Internet version of the depression scale is equivalent to... |
4 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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One would think wireless connections of today are fast, but they are nothing compared to what the WiGig Alliance is testing out during the world’s first WiGig technology plugfest.
The WiGi Alliance, short for Wireless Gigabit Alliance, has come together to celebrate the release of the WiGig’s certificat... |
25 October 2011
09:54 GMT |
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Nokia N9 is the first and only MeeGo-powered handset that the Finnish mobile phone maker has brought to the market.
The smartphone has already started to arrive on shelves in various countries around the world, and should hit even more of them soon.
The handset comes with a brand new operating system on board,... |
10 October 2011
06:51 GMT |
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Facebook has been growing like crazy since it launched. At first, due to the fact that it was limited, first to college students, then to high school students and so on, growth was relatively slow, but it continued to accelerate until a couple of years ago. While it's not seeing the same numbers as in 2009, Fac... |
6 October 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Taylor Swift has tried, as also did Selena Gomez. Both did relatively ok, but failed to rise to the level of awesomeness of Sophia Grace Brownlee, who is the latest Internet star for her cover of Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass.”Sophia, dressed in the cutest pink princess dress, with a tiara on her head a... |
6 October 2011
12:13 GMT |
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Right now, the majority of Internet devices are still in the realms of cables, but this situation is expected to change during the course of the next several years.
That the IT industry is steadily transitioning to a so-called mobile and wireless age is no longer any real mystery.
In the meantime, PCs and all o... |
12 September 2011
09:27 GMT |
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“We are entering the age of connectedness,” A Human Right organization says of its latest campaign, Buy This Satellite. If you ever wondered about the little you can do thanks to your access to the Internet, now is the time to act. Just hours ago, we were covering a story on Marc Anthony opening up about ... |
3 September 2011
10:11 GMT |
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A study presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association indicates that people are much more stressed and traumatized by online harassment and cyberbullying than they are when subjected to the same treatment in real-life. Investigators behind the new study say that it makes more sense for ... |
8 August 2011
09:38 GMT |
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The web is turning 20 today. Even those that grew up before it even existed can't imagine a world with out it. Yet in 1991 it was pretty radical new approach, known only by a few scientists and computer geeks.It exploded soon after it was created and continued to grow at an incredible rate, becoming what we know... |
6 August 2011
06:51 GMT |
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Financial reports and forecasts are made all the time, and this occasion is marked by IDC publishing its findings in regards to the probable evolution of the cloud market over the next few years.The thing about online storage is that it allows users to save and access their work from any systems and any place in the... |
29 June 2011
10:23 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that the rate of Internet addiction in the college student population is declining. The results discovered lower levels of addiction than had been found by other researches. At this point, Internet addiction is not considered to be an actual medi... |
28 June 2011
10:55 GMT |
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The turmoil in Egypt is far from over, but already some justice, or at least retribution is being done. Three people, including former president Hosni Mubarak, were fined about $91 million for cutting off the internet and disrupting mobile communications during the protests at the start of the year.In fact, it's... |
30 May 2011
05:30 GMT |
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After two years of waiting to hear new music from Beyonce, her fans finally have good reason to rejoice: a demo of her first single off the upcoming album has leaked. “Girls (Who Run the World)” will be included on the material that drops this June.The version of the song that came out was just a demo, bu... |
20 April 2011
03:16 GMT |
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Ratings are not everything, even though they’re what keeps a show on the air. Fans are also extremely important in determining just how strong of a following a series has and, in this sense, there’s no better show than “Supernatural,” as a recent survey reveals. University student Lethia Willi... |
19 April 2011
03:29 GMT |
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Since Internet traffic is growing and higher-speed infrastructures with more bandwidth are required, it is surmised that the next few years will see large funds being invested in deployment of LTE wireless.
While it may not be immediately noticeable to consumers, the fact is that the worldwide Internet infrastruc... |
9 April 2011
06:20 GMT |
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By 2014, the world's first Internet telescope will be constructed high up in the Chilean Andes. The instrument will pour terabytes of data directly into the hands of individual users, with no restrictions on the data being supplied.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be constructed in the Atacam... |
9 April 2011
04:12 GMT |
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Sarah Kemp, 42, and George Bentley, 47, registered with a dating website in a bid to find true love. As it usually happens in these cases, after speaking on the phone, via messages and emails, the two decided to meet face to face: and found, to their surprise, that they’re siblings.
They’re not sad, t... |
30 March 2011
13:41 GMT |
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It seems that the field of cooling research is not the only one that reached a milestone, as a certain team of scientists claims to have created a new laser diode with the potential to enable high-speed data transmissions applicable in many areas.Laser diodes are used in many pieces of hardware nowadays, like periph... |
17 March 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Take Jennifer Aniston, add a huge dose of cuteness overload with puppies, the Double Rainbow guy and CG children dirty dancing – and you have the latest viral video for Smart Water. Check it out at the end of the article.As fans must already know, Aniston is the face of Smart Water, a brand that claims to be pu... |
8 March 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Anonymous has had enough with the Westboro Baptist Church and their desperate and too obvious attempts at getting media attention by claiming they were threatened with hacking. An attack on a WBC website was conducted while an Anonymous rep was doing a live interview with Shirley Phelps-Roper.
It all went down du... |
25 February 2011
08:21 GMT |
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The Westboro Baptist Church, or the WBC for short, is the group best known for its message of hate. Anonymous’ activity includes, among other things, a very sustained and public boycott of the Church of Scientology. The two have come “face to face” over the weekend. It all began when a press release... |
21 February 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Internet radio streaming is gaining more and more popularity because nowadays audio quality is greatly improved, compared to traditional radio waves. Listening to a radio stream means that your favorite station will also be available from virtually anywhere. To access such online streams you will have to use an effic... |
8 February 2011
12:51 GMT |
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There have been some issue regarding the rapid increase of Internet users and the growing need for a stronger infrastructure and faster connections, and Tellabs seems to have taken things one step at a time, or so its recent announcement seems to suggest, more or less.It appears that the existing infrastructure is h... |
3 February 2011
06:55 GMT |
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Even as violence seems to be escalating in Egypt, some things are returning to normal. The internet has been restored in the country as all major ISPs are coming back online and serving their customers. Most connections should be working now, after several days of no service. It's unclear who took the decision. ... |
2 February 2011
09:08 GMT |
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Conceivably, decades to centuries from now, the galaxy will become our extended home, in which planetary colonies will be commonplace. Communications will play a critical role in space exploration, and officials at NASA believe that an Interplanetary Internet (IPI) could make this easier. The goal here is to produce ... |
1 February 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Akamai has released its quarterly State of the Internet report for the third quarter of 2010. Unsurprisingly, internet adoption and average broadband speeds all grew, but there were some drops as well, in certain regions. The US is still the biggest country in the number of unique IP addresses. In terms of speed thou... |
26 January 2011
09:37 GMT |
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Another week, another series of rumors about the upcoming PSP2, as this time we hear that the new portable device will have support for 3G data networks, meaning that besides the regular wireless connection, owners will benefit from an always-on data feed.
3G Internet connections are currently used by almost all s... |
24 January 2011
04:20 GMT |
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It appears that, unsurprisingly, the Internet is gaining prominence as a content platform for TVs and basically every multimedia device type out there, meaning that the next few years will probably bring about a drastic boost in shipment volumes of web-connected electronics.The Internet became a veritable trove of i... |
20 January 2011
10:06 GMT |
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While he’s getting ready for the silver screen version of his hit television show, Kiefer Sutherland will also be busy becoming an Internet star, thanks to a new web series in which he plays a hitman, it has emerged. The series is called “The Confession” and will premiere on Hulu in March, Entertain... |
13 January 2011
11:12 GMT |
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The internet is hardly a novelty at this point yet, for something many are now taking for granted, the internet continues to grow at a huge pace in all aspects, from the number of sites to the number of people using it. Website monitoring company Pingdom has gathered some of the most interesting stats of the last yea... |
13 January 2011
05:31 GMT |
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According to a new poll, it would appear that the Internet has finally moved ahead of the television set as the main source of information for young adults. TV still leads the way for adults and seniors, but the Internet is making considerable headway in these subgroups as well. The investigation that arrived at this... |
5 January 2011
05:57 GMT |
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The past year has seen the concept of smart TVs gaining quite a bit of popularity, especially with how more and more web-connected TV sets have been selling, but DisplaySearch seems a bit worried about the implications for the future.Until late last year, most TVs didn't really have all that big a functionality... |
30 December 2010
09:51 GMT |
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Few fans have forgotten the frenzy that took over the world in the first part of 2010, before the third installment in “The Twilight Saga,” called “Eclipse,” came out. Proving once more that twi-hards are not to be messed with, the trailer for “Eclipse” has just been named the top ... |
29 December 2010
08:32 GMT |
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There aren't many web-connected TV models on sale right now, and consumers haven't gotten a real taste of them yet, but like many things, this is set to change over the course of 2011.As one would expect, now that the end of 2010 is nigh, companies and analysts are making predictions about what 2011 will b... |
22 December 2010
11:08 GMT |
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A group of researchers announces the development of a new idea about how future networks should be organized. The team moves past the model of a relatively stable network such as the Internet, and considered how networks made of modern mobile devices need to be set up in order to survive. The growing proportion of po... |
10 December 2010
09:49 GMT |
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According to officials at HughesNet, the company plans to launch a new and advanced satellites into orbit in 2012, a spacecraft that would allow for broadband Internet to receive an amazing boost in performance. As one of the nation's two major providers of online access, the corporation is always on the lookout... |
30 November 2010
03:29 GMT |
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