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Rachel Ray just created the most ridiculous “recipe” ever: it’s called Late Night Bacon and it’s been posted on the Food Network website – and has gone viral since publication. For the “ingredients,” you need “8 slices of bacon,” thus confirming that, indeed, in o... |
12 November 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Broadband growth is accelerating globally again, as the data for the third quarter of 2010 shows. After a slowdown in new broadband subscribers in Q2, the rate is picking up again and is expected reach record numbers in the current quarter."Across the major segments of DSL, cable and fiber, the number of new broadban... |
5 November 2010
13:51 GMT |
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In case of an emergency, the international infrastructure underlying the operations of the Internet could fail, security experts warn. They say that immediate measures are needed to ensure an uninterrupted flow of data between agencies and governments around the world in case something goes awry.In the United States,... |
4 November 2010
11:58 GMT |
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A team of investigators believes that outfitting people with wearable, wireless sensors could form the basis of strong, powerful mobile Internet networks, that would provide uninterrupted access to the Web.The idea comes from experts at the Queen's University Belfast, who believe that such sensors would enable h... |
29 October 2010
06:54 GMT |
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ITU (International Telecommunication Union), an UN agency expects 2 billion or more people to be online by late 2010.This means that no more than a third of the World's population will have direct Internet access by the end of this year.The agency, a neutral organization for information and telecommunication tec... |
20 October 2010
03:16 GMT |
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Users of Android-based handsets should soon be able to enjoy a new browser on their devices, namely Opera Mobile. The new solution should become available for Google's mobile operating system within a month, the Norwegian software company announced.According to the company, the new mobile browser should become ... |
14 October 2010
04:50 GMT |
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In the future, computers compromised by malware could be quarantined from the Internet, just as patients infected with contagious diseases are being isolated today. The new security model proposed by Microsoft is designed to keep the Internet healthy, by making sure that the devices connected to the world wide web ... |
5 October 2010
07:55 GMT |
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Microsoft likes young inventive people, than can learn lots of things and maybe one day change the world, so it has quite a bond with the students community.The company does many things to help and encourage students, from organizing events to providing big discounts on its products, giving away tons of free software... |
21 September 2010
10:43 GMT |
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Despite the general belief, working from home and shopping on the Internet could actually increase carbon emissions rather than reduce them, according to a recent study.“We hear a lot about the environmental benefits achieved as a result of working from home, however, on closer inspection it does appear that an... |
21 September 2010
09:54 GMT |
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Teenagers in developed countries have a more and more sedentary behavior because of television, and the figures explode on weekends, a new study claims. This part of the European HELENA study, focused on the prevalence of sedentary behavior in 3,278 teenagers - 1,537 boys and 1,741 girls aged between 12.5 and 17.5) ... |
18 September 2010
06:46 GMT |
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For the launch of Internet Explore 9 in India, Microsoft India has got some of the most popular websites as its partners, like Rediff India, Zapak Games, Indiatimes and NDTV.com. Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. announced today the availability of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Beta for its Indian customers, and that... |
16 September 2010
09:46 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready for the the new and powerful wireless Internet networks on unused television airwaves – the “white space” in the US, according to the Wall Street Journal.“White spaces” are frequencies that have been given to a broadcasting service but remained unused locally.T... |
15 September 2010
06:15 GMT |
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The world is currently in a globalization state of mind so Microsoft thought that it would be good time to go the same way and work with governments around the world to make Internet access available to everyone.The company has launched the Shape the Future program, a program that works with national or municipal gov... |
7 September 2010
10:17 GMT |
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People having Internet access at home are more likely to be in a romantic relationship than those without Internet access, a new study presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association said.Michael J. Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at Stanford University and the lead autho... |
16 August 2010
10:29 GMT |
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In a new investigation conducted on Chinese adolescents, experts determined that teens that used the Internet constantly, and for many hours each day, were significantly more likely to be depressed. Two groups of young adults were followed for nine months – one whose members appeared to be addicted to the ... |
3 August 2010
19:11 GMT |
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Scientists have for a long time considered the Internet to be a place where limitless possibilities can come true. In a recent study, experts from the Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) decided to take on a unique task – that of building a cyber crowd. The goal of their research, which is supported by the US... |
29 July 2010
15:31 GMT |
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The Internet is becoming a basic human right in some countries and there are plans to implement a minimum guaranteed connection in some, as well. Yet, around the world, the picture is less rosy. While there are well over one billion Internet connections around the world, less than 500 million of them are broadband co... |
9 July 2010
11:40 GMT |
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Legendary singer and reclusive celebrity Prince is preparing to come out with a new album, aptly called “20TEN” because, he says, 2010 is a year that “really matters.” Though no more than 4 years ago, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences honored him with the Webby Lifetime Ac... |
6 July 2010
05:46 GMT |
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A Support document at Apple.com reveals that, “after upgrading to iOS 3.x or iOS 4 or later you may be unable to use some Cellular Data Network services”. Those include: Cellular Data connection for Internet services, Visual Voicemail, MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), and Internet tethering. A few ... |
28 June 2010
06:24 GMT |
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Well-known analyst Michael Pachter sheds light on why he believes the Xbox 360 would never have a browser in his most recent show on GameTrailers. According to Pachter, Microsoft wishes to own the Internet, that is, to control all traffic on its home console. This means that it will never allow any browser or any oth... |
24 May 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Alarmed by the state of the digital market, media and state of its citizens, the EU panned out a group of initiatives for their members and agencies to follow in the next five years. These initiatives have been grouped in a document called the Digital Agenda. The EU, represented through Neelie Kroes, vice-president o... |
19 May 2010
10:26 GMT |
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For several years, numerous experts and officials have been advocating for the advantages of introducing quantum money in public circulation. It has several advantages over existing electronic currencies, mostly because it cannot be counterfeited, abused or forged. But there are also a number of difficulties associat... |
3 May 2010
08:43 GMT |
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A company specializing in mobile Internet solutions has released findings of wireless network tests conducted on Apple’s iPad. Bytemobile, Inc. says that it used popular applications with identical tasks to compare the volumes of mobile data traffic generated on the iPad and the iPhone. After recording the resu... |
27 April 2010
03:14 GMT |
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A new research reveals that depression and panic disorders are conditions that can readily be addressed online, via the Internet, with tangible results. The investigation revealed that cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) conducted over the World Wide Web was just as effective in treating symptoms associated with these c... |
12 April 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Though it wasn't all that popular until late last year, 3D picked up speed quite quickly as graphics processing and consumer interest rose. Over the past few months, IT companies, particularly display makers, have introduced a number of 3D-capable devices and there is even talk of impending 3D television broadca... |
10 April 2010
03:39 GMT |
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A group of six European universities has just begun a collaboration that could see the development of the first World Wide Web for robots. The reason why this is desirable is because the machines, especially those working in various industries, and in the field of medicine, could thus “learn” from each ot... |
9 April 2010
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A group of experts from the North Carolina State University (NC State) has taken it upon itself to promote the research and development of a new type of computer screen. The innovation, which is nearly completed, is meant to help blind people make the most out of their online experience, and also to make it easier fo... |
29 March 2010
11:01 GMT |
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A group of British investigators from the University of Kent have recently determined that children who are subjected to the effects of online ostracism tend to have lower levels of self-esteem than their peers. This is the first study ever to look at the correlations between the two phenomena. Previous investigation... |
22 March 2010
11:45 GMT |
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All rare and endangered things apparently exert a certain type of fascination for certain types of people, who would pay large amounts of money just to have an object only a handful of other people already poses. Unfortunately, the same holds true for endangered plants and animals, according to the results of an inve... |
22 March 2010
07:42 GMT |
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The Internet is thought to now officially be on the 'short list' for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize this year. There have been talks about the organization seriously considering the nomination and the BBC now claims that the Internet has made it in the official short list picked out of 237 people or organiza... |
11 March 2010
06:21 GMT |
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Taking baby steps, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has constantly kept web developers very excited regarding the cutting edge new standards for HTML 5 and CSS 3. While drafts have been constantly pouring from the organization, they were never more than bite-size pieces of the standard. A few days ago, the W3C rel... |
9 March 2010
10:53 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Kansas have determined that people who tend to date online exhibit a very similar type of behavior to the ones that do so in real-life. The study was focused on determining whether online daters that lie do so to deceive others knowingly or not. The experts learned that this was not c... |
4 March 2010
08:41 GMT |
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Considerably lagging behind in broadband adoption, the US fails to provide cheap and freely accessible broadband connections to the majority of its citizens. Trying to fix this issue, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) announced that its National Broadband Plan would be submitted to the US Congress on March ... |
23 February 2010
10:17 GMT |
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Think of the Nobel Committee what you will but one thing's for sure, they know how to get people talking about them. The latest example is the list of nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize award among which you'll find a Chinese dissident, a Russian human rights activist and the Internet. That... |
8 February 2010
11:27 GMT |
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Researchers have been able to accurately link the excessive Internet use with symptoms of depression for the first time, although they have been unable to determine exactly if the medical condition is triggered by spending large amounts of time online. The experts behind the new study were based at the University of ... |
3 February 2010
09:24 GMT |
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It’s not uncommon for artists to resort to viral campaigns to promote their upcoming materials. In recent months, Jennifer Lopez has done it, launching a campaign centering on Lola, admittedly an aspiring model and singer who had just put a fragment of a song out there. “iamamiwhoami” has been aroun... |
27 January 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Microsoft applauded the position expressed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as the new U.S. policy to advocate principles of freedom and openness for the Internet around the globe. Support was voiced by Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, and one of the men that replaced Bill... |
22 January 2010
09:22 GMT |
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What better time for an update on the market with the highest number of Internet users in the world, China, than now that Google is threatening to leave it. Unsurprisingly, the number of people online continued to surge reaching 384 million at the end of 2009, a huge 13.6 percent increase from just six months earlie... |
20 January 2010
05:44 GMT |
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The growth and diversification of IT systems has been subjecting the networks currently used by corporations to substantial pressure. The industry is in need of a new type of connectivity solution that will enable greater data-transfer volumes. Companies are already switching to Ethernet, but the IEEE802 committee is... |
19 January 2010
06:09 GMT |
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British singer Lily Allen is, for many, the first real artist to break into the spotlight using the industry’s backdoor instead of going the traditional route, they say. As her fans must know, she rose to fame via MySpace, a channel she continued to use long after she was signed to a label to promote her music.... |
22 December 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Fans of the Google iPhone app should be glad to hear that the Mountain View search giant has updated the program with exciting, new stuff, including a redesigned UI, new voice-search functionality, and faster searches. The app is free to download and use on any iPhone or iPod touch model running iPhone OS 2.0 or late... |
10 December 2009
08:48 GMT |
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Yesterday, at the UBS 37th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference, AT&T announced that the number of U-verse TV subscribers had reached the two-million mark. AT&T offers IPTV through its U-verse platform across 22 markets in the United States. Also, the launch of the new AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet ... |
10 December 2009
08:22 GMT |
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Scientists were just given the go-ahead from sponsors and funders to embark on the largest music-related endeavor that a group has ever undertaken online. The goal of the Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information (SALAMI) project is to allow experts to analyze more than 350,000 songs at the same time,... |
4 December 2009
11:02 GMT |
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In an era where major CE manufacturers have started putting special effort into integrating Internet connectivity into their entire product lines (whether those products are TVs, radios, cameras, printers etc.), Imagination took the leading role with its newest set of intellectual property cores (IP cores). These pro... |
25 November 2009
05:47 GMT |
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A bit of a Nordic rivalry is heating up between Sweden and Finland, but a type of rivalry anyone can get behind of. Just a couple of weeks after Finland announced its plans to make broadband connections a legal right, Sweden is following suit with plans of its own. Regardless of whether it's national pride or a ... |
4 November 2009
07:17 GMT |
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The web is booming, more and more people are online and more websites are popping up than ever. In fact, the number of websites and computers connected to the Internet is becoming so great, that we're running out of IP addresses to assign them. This shortage can be avoided by switching from the old and widely us... |
3 November 2009
09:52 GMT |
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We take it for granted today and it's easy to forget just how new it really is, but the Internet is a very different beast than it was just five years ago. It's now evolving at an amazing pace and soon one third of the world's population will be online. Its beginnings 40 years ago though were a lot mor... |
29 October 2009
11:48 GMT |
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Opera Software has quietly updated its feature-packed, cross-platform web browser, recommending the download to every user out there. In addition to powerful features for every kind of user, the Opera web browser now sports “Opera Unite,” a powerful platform that turns one's Web browser into a Web Se... |
29 October 2009
07:43 GMT |
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An ICANN representative has led reporters to believe that, till the end of the week, the committee might approve the usage of non-Latin characters in standard web addresses. The change, if approved, will not only be the biggest face-lift given to the Internet, but will also be the biggest technical modification done ... |
26 October 2009
11:02 GMT |
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In spite of the criticism parents have subjected the Internet to, in terms of the damage it can cause to their children, recent scientific studies by researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have shown that using the World Wide Web can, in fact, boost the brain functions considerably. The exp... |
21 October 2009
06:43 GMT |
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