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Rapid Mobile Media, an Edinburgh, UK-based developer of mobile application and software platforms, has recently announced the release of its ThinkPhone series of products, which is designed to bring interactive Web applications to mobile phones. The ThinkPhone family includes ThinkPhone Design, ThinkPhone Direct and ... |
2 October 2008
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A recent survey involved questioning 1.102 children 12 to 17 years of age and their parents concerning their gaming-related habits. As it turns out, 94 percent of the young girls and 99 percent of the boys show different degrees of game addiction. Pew Internet & American Life Project demonstrated in a survey pa... |
17 September 2008
11:19 GMT |
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General belief has it that, given that enough complexity is provided, life is probable to arise as a consequence. And, besides living organisms, there's no other system more complicated than the Internet. So, how wrong is it to assume that it may evolve into a living entity? Even now, you're reading t... |
17 September 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Akamai Technologies has released a report regarding “the state of the Internet” for the second quarter of 2008, and it lists Japan as being the primary source of attack traffic, followed by US and China. According to the report, in the second quarter of 2008, Japan accounted for 30% of the total global at... |
10 September 2008
11:19 GMT |
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An American writer who discovered that a draft of her latest book was leaked on the Internet decided to stop writing, although the first 12 chapters of it were ready for editing and publishing. Stephenie Meyer, author of the vampire novels “The Host,” “Twilights” and its sequels, all targeting... |
5 September 2008
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TeliaSonera, the Sweden-based international mobile operator and Internet service provider, announced today the release of a new and free service that enables Internet Service Providers and operators to block their customers' access to Web addresses that feature material depicting child sexual abuse. Distrib... |
4 September 2008
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The news about Google's upcoming web browser, the Chrome, has been flying around the Internet all day long, our editors writing some comprehensive reports about it earlier today. However, it would seem that the search-engine giant has finally decided to let the downloading begin and so, without further ado, we g... |
2 September 2008
15:44 GMT |
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Google is launching its own free, open source web browser. Google Chrome, as the browser is called, will only be available for Windows operating systems for a while, but the team is working on developing the product for Mac and Linux users as well. Since Google is undoubtedly ruling the search market, many wonde... |
2 September 2008
03:33 GMT |
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comScore has made public the results of its latest study regarding the online preferences of Japanese users for the month of June. As it turns out, an important role was played by the launch of Apple’s iPhone 3G in the country, which caused users here to pay more attention than usual to technology-related news ... |
1 September 2008
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The Israel Antiquities Authority has decided to publicly display the Dead Sea Scrolls come next year. And it’s not going to be in a museum, as it would seem most likely, but on the Internet instead. The texts found in the 1940s in a cave near the Dead See comprise the entire Old Testament, with only one book &n... |
26 August 2008
17:45 GMT |
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The official website of the Beijing Olympics, Beijing2008.cn, attracted over 16 million visitors in just the first ten days following the opening ceremony. The website, with versions in Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Arabic, managed to be incredibly popular, thus underscoring the fact that people's attent... |
26 August 2008
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Google, along with its partners, is supporting an initiative that is supposed to bring wireless high-speed Internet to every home, for an affordable price. The method is somewhat unusual, although the search giant has been promoting it for five months now, and it consists of allowing Internet providers to use the whi... |
11 August 2008
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Sprint, the third largest mobile operator in the US, has just announced the availability of Sprint Web, a new home page set to improve the mobile Internet experience of its subscribers. Sprint Web features quick Google search access, as now Google is the default search engine on Sprint's phones. Moreover, lev... |
28 July 2008
10:33 GMT |
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25% of the world's oldest known Bible is available on the Internet. Codex Sinaiticus dates back to the fourth century A.D. Until now, parts of it were kept for preservation in a couple of libraries and in a monastery in Egypt. The role of these institutions was that of completing the missing parts, as the versio... |
25 July 2008
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Gary Dean, a British businessman who had worked in advertising all his life, managing to earn enough money to afford a luxurious existence, was accused of leaving his wife and the rest of the family almost insolvent after the divorce. To put an end to the rumors that were becoming truly annoying, since the man actual... |
18 July 2008
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When it comes to dealing with a computer, women seem to be more frustrated than men. 55.8% of the women who have to face different computer-related difficulties are extremely irritated, while only 49.7% of the men feel the same. The data have been made public by a Swedish study that was cited by Royal Pingdom. The ma... |
14 July 2008
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South Africans' preferences when it comes to online surfing are primarily focused on employment websites. Only in June, 450,000 people used the employment offers displayed on specialized sites. The numbers are even more significant considering the fact that the average session duration was of almost 13 minutes, ... |
12 July 2008
06:49 GMT |
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Britons are heavy Internet users. As a study conducted by Nielsen Online shows, between June 2007 and May 2008, the average number of minutes spent monthly by the U.K citizens on the Internet surpassed 33 million. The leader, with 2,626 minutes and 7.8% of the market share, is MSN Messenger. The first runner up, gett... |
7 July 2008
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Terra, the largest Internet company in Latin America, has managed to sign an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, that allows it to broadcast the Beijing 2008 Olympics on the Internet and mobile platforms. The company was chosen, as the official website of the Olympics states, because of its capacity t... |
7 July 2008
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If anyone needs further proof of how un-informed some people might be when talking about the Internet and online games, just take a look at an article that is currently running in the The Boston Globe. Dr. Jerald Block is presented as being a psychiatrist that specializes in helping those that spend too much time in ... |
13 June 2008
19:31 GMT |
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According to Reuters, Amazon.com, the largest Internet retailer, is expected to launch a streaming video service in the weeks to come. The company plans to use the new product in order to augment its digital offerings.Nevertheless, while speaking at The Wall Street Journal three-day conference, which was held north o... |
29 May 2008
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free-hotspot.com has announced today that Romania's Azuga town has become the second largest Free HotSpot Area in Europe. The company has decided to take the successful initiative it has also undertaken in Szklarska Poreba, Poland, to another European country, namely Romania.The company, which has recently annou... |
27 May 2008
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ISPs throttling peer-to-peer downloads have always been criticized by users because these file-sharing applications have an incredible popularity among them but this doesn't stop the Japanese authorities to bring up a new set of guidelines which would allow ISP to limit speeds. According to The Asahi Shimbum, th... |
23 May 2008
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Movie rentals have brought billions of dollars to both movie studios and rental businesses over time, but the advent of high-speed Internet connections, file-sharing, rapid data transfers, etc. is rendering the old business model obsolete. So, in order to survive on this increasing "online" market, Netflix, one of th... |
20 May 2008
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A study conducted by media watchdog Ofcom, the Office of Communications, revealed that 77 percent of children in the UK download files from the Internet, including here music and movies, through file sharing applications, but are not aware that, sometimes, such actions are illegal. However, from those kids who do kno... |
16 May 2008
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CBS Corporation was happy to announce today that it had reached an agreement to acquire CNET Networks, one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the United States. According to the terms of the acquisition, CBS will acquire CNET Networks for roughly $1.8 billion, getting access to a combined 54 million unique ... |
15 May 2008
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Although for some of you this may sound pretty incredible, one in five US households never sent an email, the National Technology Scan report, compiled by Park Associated, reveals. Moreover, no less than 20 million households don't have an Internet connection, which means that approximately 18 percent of the tot... |
14 May 2008
10:17 GMT |
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As of April this year, estimations are that the current number of available IPs are not going to be sufficient for all of the Earth's inhabitants. The current IPv4 Internet standard can provide networks with "only" 4 billion IP configurations, which isn't enough to cover all the 6 billion possible Internet ... |
14 May 2008
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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 pas... |
8 May 2008
10:56 GMT |
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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 report, Intel and Microsoft are already looking for... |
7 May 2008
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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 hold... |
5 May 2008
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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 ... |
25 April 2008
06:12 GMT |
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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 o... |
24 April 2008
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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 C... |
21 April 2008
10:29 GMT |
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MacWireless has just released the Powerline Network Adapter for Mac, a device that provides speeds of up to 10 times faster than DSL, the company claims. The networking solution is said to be particularly useful when your wireless signal has to deal with "enemies" such as concrete, metal, or other obstructions in the... |
21 April 2008
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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 mil... |
9 April 2008
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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 reach... |
9 April 2008
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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 th... |
1 April 2008
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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 ... |
28 March 2008
20:46 GMT |
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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 dev... |
22 March 2008
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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... |
21 March 2008
16:36 GMT |
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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, religi... |
11 March 2008
06:16 GMT |
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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... |
6 March 2008
08:36 GMT |
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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 con... |
6 March 2008
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"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 a... |
6 March 2008
06:37 GMT |
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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 enlighten... |
4 March 2008
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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 governm... |
4 March 2008
15:16 GMT |
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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 sho... |
4 March 2008
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Well, this is something to consider as a great possibility for iPhone users! A P2P client for the Apple phone. Now, don't rush to find the source just yet. Read on and see how exactly it works (if it does at all) and what the risks are."Today, the insanely brilliant iPhone Hacker core announced a preliminary ver... |
3 March 2008
04:37 GMT |
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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 wh... |
28 February 2008
16:06 GMT |
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