Internet could play bigger role in schools, education official says. The Internet Is Out to Kill Your Future Babies. Back in the old days, your grandpa had to walk 50 miles to his schoolhouse while barefoot in the snow, carrying a bushel of 30-pound books not to mention hot potatoes in his pockets to ward off hypothermia, leading to second-degree burns on his fingertips and wrists. However, he has nothing on you, for you have battled the evils of modern day, proven far greater by science than the average blizzard walk. Basically, the Internet hates and wants to punish you. Thus, there are scourges like...toasted leg syndrome, in which your laptop hopes to wound and mottle your thighs; text neck, which might throw your whole alignment off and lead to years of back pain and an addiction to the chiropractor; carpal tunnel, and don't we know it; not to mention an overall unhealthy relationship to the Internet and a sense of codependency upon your tech devices.
But now, the Internet has done it. The Internet wants to kill your sperm, says science. The lesson is clear. Blogs - Doug Haller on ASU football - DouglasHaller - Sources: Erickson internet report is false. 3 Doors Down's Todd Harrell Thinks The Internet Is A 'Double Edged Sword' Kinks guitarist Dave Davies reached out to AC/DC's Malcolm Young after hearing rumors that the latter's health problems may have been the result of a stroke. Davies himself suffered a stroke in 2004 and has since returned to performing. "It really does not help by people taking a negative view that his career is over," Davies wrote on Facebook. Alanis Morissette's dog has been returned home safely after it disappeared last month. The dog, Circus, was at the center of a suit lodged by Morissette and her husband, Mario Treadway, against her housekeeper Maria Garcia, who allegedly stole the Pug-Chihuahua mix dog when she was fired in January and kept the dog—whom she claims Morissette never wanted.
Katy Perry took the stage in Los Angeles on April 18 to film her CMT Crossroads special alongside country star Kacey Musgraves. Theirs will serve as the 50th edition of the series in which country artists are paired with artists from different genres. Securities Regulators Victim of Internet Scam. Google Isn’t ‘Dominant’ in Internet Search, Schmidt Says.
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular search engine, isn’t “dominant” and competes against companies including Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp., Chairman Eric Schmidt said in a written response to lawmakers’ questions. “Google has many strong competitors,” Schmidt said in answers released today by the Senate antitrust subcommittee. “Google has none of the characteristics that I associate with market power.” The Federal Trade Commission is conducting an antitrust investigation into whether Google is harming competition. The government is seeking to determine whether Google is dominant enough to control prices and exclude competitors, which would put it in violation of antitrust laws. Google is seeking “to obfuscate the relevant market issues and just say that everything in the world competes with Google,” said Robert Lande, a University of Baltimore law professor.
“I think they’re going to lose on that issue, but of course they’re going to try.” Internet Censorship US Technology Used Censor Internet Syria. Internet giant Google keeps on growing - Business News. This Week in Internet Censorship: Blocking Social Sites in Pakistan and Syria; Freedom House Releases New Report. This week brings new restrictions in Syria and Pakistan, while watchdog group Freedom House releases a new brief on the growing challenges to Internet freedom. Syria Blocks WordPress This has been a tumultuous year for Syrians and for the Syrian Internet. In response to protests beginning in February, the Syrian government unblocked Facebook, Blogspot, and YouTube for the first time since 2007. While some observers saw it as a move toward a freer Internet, others viewed it as better enabling surveillance; the latter turned out to be right. Now, amidst a new wave of protests, the Syrian government has reverted to their old methods, blocking WordPress on at least one ISP.
But as one circumvention-savvy Syrian Twitter user said, "They blocked WordPress… as if people are still using the Syrian proxy. " Pakistan Inches Closer to Facebook Ban Pakistan, no stranger to Internet censorship, has made new moves this week to block Facebook and other social sites. Ited Nations Official Document. Royaloak.patch. Internet Essential's digital/Internet plan offers qualifying families an affordable service, $150 notebook computers and training. More than one-third of all Americans are not connected to the Internet, according to a 2010 report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Of those not connected, many are low-income families that do not have a computer and/or cannot afford Internet costs. Comcast and its partners are offering an opportunity for those families to get hooked up through its new Internet Essentials Home Internet Service. The new collaboration with nonprofit One Economy and technology companies Dell, Acer and Microsoft offers low-cost Internet access of $9.95 per month to qualifying families.
The program also includes free Internet training and installation. Superintendent Shawn Lewis-Lakin is excited about the program. “Most children can connect to the Internet in the classroom, but many do not have it available at home, for a variety reasons. Internet addiction therapy at “Save Brain Clinic” « Internet. Choi Hyun-Min loses all track of time when he sits down to play computer games, but the sessions usually last at least 10 hours. Choi (not his real name) is among hundreds of thousands officially considered to be Internet addicts in South Korea, one of the world’s most wired nations. Now the 16-year-old student is undergoing therapy at the “Save Brain Clinic”, which opened in early May and styles itself as the country’s first specialist clinic for such addicts. “Internet addiction is not mere delinquency,” said Lee Jaewon, who heads the clinic at Gongju National Hospital, a psychiatric institution 120 km (74 miles) south of Seoul. “It is a serious issue and parents need to feel less embarrassed and bring children to hospitals for treatment before it’s too late.”
The clinic offers a five-week treatment programme including group sessions, art therapy, medicine and processes known as neurofeedback and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Many parents have made inquiries. Put a cork in the Internet bubble talk — for now - Business - US business. SAN FRANCISCO — It's starting to feel like a 1999 flashback. Internet companies — some of them profitable, some not — sense a golden opportunity and are lining up to go public this year. But here's something to keep in mind as the latest case of Internet fever grips Wall Street: It's still nowhere close to the giddy days of the dot-com boom, when investors bought stocks as impulsively as lottery tickets. Technology stocks today are the cheapest in more than nine years, at least judging by one benchmark for appraising companies. This year could yield the most initial public offerings of technology stocks since 2000. But the venture capitalists who bankroll high-tech startups aren't pouring money into the Internet like they once did.
All those factors signal that cooler heads are prevailing, especially with the global economy on shaky ground. The growing enthusiasm for Internet services reflects how far the Internet has come since the dot-com boom. The caution may be short-lived, though. ICANN Approves Expansion of Internet Domain Names. Internet body approves new web suffixes. Singapore: A global body that charts the course of the internet voted on Monday to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes by private companies, enabling major firms to replace ".com" with their own brand. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted overwhelmingly in favour of the proposal at a meeting in Singapore despite fears that opening up new suffixes could cause some confusion.
"This is the biggest change to domain names since the creation of '.com' 26 years ago," said Theo Hnarakis, chief executive of Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services, a California-based company that provides online branding services. Under the changes, businesses would no longer be restricted to the list of generic top level domains (gTLDs) that include .com, .net and .org when they apply to register a website address. "Brands need to act now if they want to apply for one of these new domain names as it is not as simple as registering a .com address. [Infographic] US Trails in Internet Penetration Behind New Zealand, Australia, South Korea & Japan.
In the United States and Western Europe, the Internet is ubiquitous. Or, at least it seems that way. But, did you know that New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, South Korea and Japan all have higher rates of Internet penetration than the U.S.? That is what an infographic from public relations and research company Edelman tells us about Internet usage in the Asia-Pacific region. New Zealand is the most digitally connected country in the Pacific Rim with an 85.4% Internet penetration rate. No wonder our founder, Richard MacManus, hails from there.
According to InternetWorldStats.com, the U.S. has Internet penetration of 77.3%, approximately 240 million users. The infographic also shows social network of choice in each country. Some of the cooler trends features to emerge in the Twitter landscape come from Japan. In terms of what users are doing online, Chinese digital denizens mostly watch video (63.4%). Comcast Testing Live TV Using Internet Protocol* Royal Wedding Streaming Video Will Test YouTube and the Internet. The much-anticipated Royal Wedding is almost upon us, and the tech world is watching closely to see just how much live streaming Will and Kate the Internet can handle. YouTube's dedicated streaming feed is expected to be the lens through which 400 million people watch the proceedings at Westminster Abbey tomorrow, placing additional stress on the Google-owned website. Internet architects are not worried. Chris Sharp, the general manager of content and digital media at the massive internet traffic website Equinix, says online viewership of the Royal Wedding will be a drop in the bucket in relation to overall Internet traffic on a normal day.
YouTube uploads enough video daily to fill six years. However, not all devices are created equal. Sharp says watching the event on smartphones and tablets over the cell network could possibly jam a network not yet robust enough to handle such demand. Internet freedom: Right to roam. Does the Internet Help or Harm the Environment? [INFOGRAPHIC] As Earth Day draws to a close, we'd like to leave you with an uncomfortable but significant question: Is it possible that our gadgets and online activities themselves might be harming the planet more than they help?
After all, we know that the data centers that power our favorite applications and sites are far from green — although Google and Facebook are attempting to change that, both in the kinds of energy we use and how much energy is needed. Still, environmental organization Greenpeace warns that the same companies have caused consumers' "addiction to dirty energy" and are increasing their energy consumption by around 12% each year. And everything we do online, from web searches to spam emails, leads to a certain amount of CO2. On the other hand, the Internet is making it possible for many more workers to efficiently and effectively telecommute; this "WFH" revolution is saving the environment that many more cars on the road each morning and evening.
Click image to see larger version. Kaspersky Lab stays quiet on kidnapping of founder’s son. Greenpeace Unveils Who’s Behind the Internet’s Dirty Power: Cleantech News and Analysis « Internet can be a playground for predators. Edward Ugel: Legalized Internet Gambling in Washington, DC? What a Con. The District of Columbia has decided to move forward with a plan to legalize internet gambling within its borders. Knowing just how broke the city is, the layman might think this plan is sound -- if not ingenious. But to those of us who know a thing or two about state sponsored gambling, this is going to be hell for DC residents.
On the surface, who can blame the District of Columbia? Like so many cities across the nation, Washington, DC is gasping for air, desperate to find cash in order to pay its bills and, ostensibly, help its citizens. The district's lawmakers are not trying to harm their citizens on purpose. The last thing the District of Columbia needs to do is get even further into is the gambling business. Whereever you live, how many times a day do you see or hear a lottery commercial? Why then, do we allow Washington, DC -- and all the other lottery states -- to push their casino games to their very own residents via hardcore marketing campaigns? Wrong. Freedom House: Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools Effective, Lack Security | News. As the Internet plays a major role in organizing protests and disseminating information across the Middle East and other parts of the world, a report released Tuesday by the human rights organization, Freedom House, tells how Internet censorship circumvention tools are effective in navigating around censors.
But the report warns about the security implications of such software. The report gives Internet users guidelines for choosing effective and easy to use circumvention tools in countries with high degrees of Internet censorship. Based on a survey of Internet users in Iran, Azerbaijan, China and Burma, the report found all 11 censorship circumvention tools to be effective, and outlines the advantages and disadvantages. It recommends tools based on one's Internet habits, either as a downloader or uploader of information; one's preference for either security or speed; and the level of privacy and security desired.
"Circumvention is not security," said Callanan. The U.S. Last week, U.S. Study Shows 10% of Internet Time Spent Gambling Online. Online gambling has flourished in recent years and the growth and popularity of online casinos is far from over. According to a study taken by the Online Gaming Global Outlook a report from 2010 showed that 10% of all online time is spent gambling or playing games at online casinos and other websites. This number is on the move up with no decrease forecasted. Contributing to the success of online gambling is the increase in high speed internet which allows gamblers to download and install the casinos and their games at a much faster rate and the performance is greatly improved compared to the “dial up” internet years. Users can now spend more time enjoying online casino and poker games and with the no-download (flash) games developers now have an open door to the type of games offered.
Any online gambler can tell you that the games introduced 10 years ago compared to the games found now at online casinos are greatly enhanced. Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) Gmail Motion – New Internet Technology that Works as a Video Game | Internet Marketing Inc. Global Times Editorial: Reaching an Understanding of Internet Monitoring from the Height of National Interest. AT&T, fearing the Internet of things, will impose data caps for broadband users.
Telecommunications and broadband Internet service provider AT&T will impose caps on the amount of data its U-Verse and DSL users can download starting in May, according to a report by Broadband Reports. The new plan will cap typical DSL users at 150 gigabytes of data each month and U-Verse customers — who also subscribe to television and home phone services — to 250 gigabytes of data each month. AT&T customers will be charged an extra $10 for each 50 gigabytes of data they consume over the monthly limit. AT&T is known for laying the hammer down on bandwidth hogs, a lesson the company learned after dealing with the same problem on its wireless network after the iPhone launched. It was one of the first wireless companies to impose caps on the amount of data iPhone and other smartphone users could download and upload in order to relieve some of the strain on its network. The typical customer uses around 18 gigabytes of data each month, according to AT&T.
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