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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Google Launches Fiber Network
Folks, I’ve to tell you that this is probably one of those exciting news that I drool over! Google is announcing that it is experimenting in building an ISP service which advertises a 1 gigabit per second Internet connection speed. With this news I surmise that Google is planning something much bigger to come, and [...]
IPV4 Is Soon To Be Out Of Reach
Not sure, but it could be by the end of 2011, IPv4 addresses will be no more; experts predict by that time, no available IPv4 address left to be giving out. The NRO (Number Resource Organization) warns everyone to switch to IPv6 as soon as possible. For who do not know about IPv4 and IPv6, [...]
Some 33% Americans Refuse To Have Broadband
The world is embracing the Internet and a faster connection to the web, but the United States seems to not care about faster broadband speed and how spread broadband has in America as much as the rest of the world. Congress has decided that they need to know why so they can come up with [...]
VigLink Turns Links On Websites Into $?
A new startup seems to be too good to be true for online publishers! Hold your horse though, maybe it’s too good to be true for some publishers with little traffic websites, but otherwise? With Google and Linkshare and Commission Junction as affiliate partners (how well they connect is still unclear), VigLink promises publishers a [...]
China Purges Internet Porns
The Internet environment within China is getting stricter, and the Chinese government warns its citizens that the Internet can only get even more stricter this year. Chinese people can report on pornographic and harmful websites to the government, and in return they receive rewards in money. The authorities within China have arrested 5000 people in [...]
2010 Cyber-Predictions
Why should you be worried the next time you click on an invite in your email’s Inbox from a social network’s online friend? McAfee predicts that in 2010, hackers (i.e., crackers) are depending on most widely used technology and new technology to lure the gullible bunches for profit. Hackers want you to visit websites that [...]
