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There's a common perception about conversation on the web that at some point regardless of how well the conversation may have started off will devolve into seeing who can hit Godwin's Law of The USENET; which was arrived ...
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It never fails that with every new technological breakthrough Hollywood howls to the moon about how this new technology is another attack against the industry and will destroy it.
Of course we all know that the exact opposite ...
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Israel is working on a high speed broadband network that will bring faster speeds and better access to the country and various business sectors. While many of us enjoy very fast Internet (30mbps myself) here in the United ...
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Numbers can be a little mind-numbing some times, especially when it comes to anything to do with technology and the Internet. Facebook with its 800 million users, or pretty close to it, Twitter with its 225 million ...
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The World's largest country based on population at well over one Billion people, also has the largest amount of people who access the web. New data came out that showed in 2011, 513 Million people accessed the ...
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A staffer at the New York Times had an "oops" moment on Wednesday when they accidentally sent an email to 9 million New York Times readers instead of the few hundred the email was meant for.
At first ...
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Mom, please put the phone down and come to dinner!
Not the words you would expect to hear in this day and age, but according to ABC News the phone sex industry is flourishing with the help of ...
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The U.S. Federal Government has seized 150 domains belonging to online counterfeit sellers in the United States.
Domain names seized by the government included websites that were known to sell pirated and counterfeit items that included DVDs, golf ...
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Human beings lie. It is almost second nature that at some point during the day we will lie. White lie or otherwise it doesn't matter we all lie but interestingly enough when it comes to our online ...
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Not listed: keep opening Chrome windows before you realize the internet is in fact, still down.
[Pleated Jeans]
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Poor Mitt Romney even algorithmic computer programs are saying he can't win the U.S. Presidency or for that matter even the GOP primary. In an amusing "Did you mean" search result from Google on Friday users who ...
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Filing patents, and their subsequent granting without any serious investigation, is a daily occurrence it seems in the tech world. Everyone does it and even in case where prior art or even common sense would dictate otherwise companies amass war ...
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At the end of the day, it's basically you electric service that trumps all others.
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Strong online advertising growth has continued into the first half of 2011, rising 23.2 percent to $14.9 billion.
Figures released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC US) showed that the growth more than doubled year-over-year. ...
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A study conducted by About.com and Latitude revealed that users searching on the Internet displays any of these three distinct human behavior: "Answer Me", "Educate Me" and "Inspire Me."
In giving importance to the study, Tracy Raiser, senior ...
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We all know the dark side of the Internet, one of which is using it to facilitate human trafficking. It is good to know also that it can be harnessed to monitor and combat this same form ...
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Via Pleated Jeans, a chart that explains the time that rapidly evaporates as soon as you launch your Chrome browser.
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Two-thirds of American parents are worried about their children's safety when using the Internet. So, despite the widespread acceptance of the Internet as source of information, e-commerce, social networking and more, it remains a source of worry ...
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It's apparently simple physics, as pointed out by one sciency redditor who knows how those things work.
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It never, ever, fails.
It happened with television, it happened with video games, and now it's social networks.
Yes, says a survey from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (pdf), using social network sites makes teenagers more ...
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This is true on so many levels- and if you don't agree, you are obviously a shill for George Soros and or the Koch Brothers.
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When it comes to demonizing no-one holds a candle to the record labels and their constant assertion that pirates are the worst scum on the planet and they are costing the industry boatloads of money.
This attitude has been laughed ...
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