Internet

Newspapers Fail To Engage Readers

Source suggests that newspapers do not engaged readers enough and in turns have allow readers go elsewhere.  Blogs and other online publishing techniques have ways for readers to be engaged such as commenting system, and it shows that readers have came back often to the same articles to check on comments and replies.  More.

Anything Goes, Internet, Web Services

A Report Accuses Facebook Founder Of Hacking

Here is another surprise for you today, founder of Facebook has been accused for hacking some people in the pasts to make his social network portal Facebook as popular as today.  Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is being accused for using the black art known as hacking to hack into email accounts of Journalist of Harvard College [...]

Internet, Security, Web Services

Internet Addiction, South Korean Couple Raised Online Child Starved Real Life Child

Usually I would like to promote technology such as Internet, but here today I have to say that we humans do have to stay away from the Internet when matters in real life require our daily attentions.  Why?  Internet addiction is very much real.  Just like anything else we humans could be addicted to as [...]

Anything Goes, Internet

Google Acquires Picnik

Although Picnik has been around since 2006, I have never heard of this online service until I heard about Google has acquired Picnik.  So what’s Picnik?  Picnik is an online service that allows you to edit photos in a web browser.  Although I have never tried it out yet, but around 40 million people visit [...]

Anything Goes, Internet, Web Services

Newspapers Aren’t Dead, Just About To As Internet Overtakes Print In News Consumption

Even two years back when one looked at how the social media trend grew toward the clouds, one could pretty much got it right by predicting that the Internet could eventually replace many forms of traditional media.  Today, I read a post on Arstechnica, and the post discusses that the Internet has overtook the newspaper [...]

Internet

Cisco Says Hello To 1Gbps Broadband To Not Let Google Be The Only Guy In Town

Not only Google wants a faster America when it comes to broadband, because Cisco does too.  It seems as if Google is competing against AT&T, Verizon, and others when it announces that it is building 1Gbps broadband network for consumers, but in my opinion, Google wants to see a faster broadband standard in America.  Why?  [...]

Internet

Google Gears Replaces By HTML5

Bad news for the people that are using Google Gears to check emails, blog with WordPress, and many other things that could be done offline with Google Gears since Google is announcing that Google Gears will no longer be supported?  Not really, Google is making a big change by moving what’s good about Google Gears [...]

Google, Internet

Facebook And PayPal Team Up To Provide Virtual Payments

Buying virtual goods with real money isn’t a new thing since the World of Warcraft, although unintentionally, has been facilitating the business of selling virtual goods.  Some WOW’s gamers bought virtual gold with real money to level faster and acquire awesome armors and weapons.  WOW is only one example of many virtual communities that either [...]

Internet, Video Games, Web Services

Kneber Botnet Exposed, Not Enough Security Solutions?

Security reports are rarely made headlines since people do not care unless they themselves are having the problems.  In a way, it’s doesn’t matter if you and I care about security or not, since our current premium security software from well known security vendors aren’t equipped to deal with the real sophisticated threats.  Not to [...]

Anything Goes, Internet, Security

Stay Safe In Public Spots When You’re On A Computer/Laptop

Today post is a friendly reminder on how to play safe as you hop from one public location to another using the Internet.  Recently, I have a friend who told me that he used a public computer, using his passwords to check his various accounts from different web services.  I was shocked and gave him [...]

Internet, Security