 How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox? 19 hours ago | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Everyone who has an e-mail account has probably received a forwarded chain letter promising good luck if the message is forwarded on to others--or terrible misfortune if it isn't. The sheer volume of forwarded ... | |
 Probing Question: What is Net neutrality? May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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"Internet Freedom, under attack. What do we do? Stand up, talk back," shouted a group calling themselves the Raging Grannies, outside the Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Inside, the Federal ... | |
Users of Yahoo Answers seek advice, opinion, expertise April 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
One of the first large-scale analyses of how people share knowledge on Yahoo Answers has found that participants use the site to exchange advice and opinions, in addition to technical expertise. | |
Law professor warns the FCC about ceding too much control to large Internet providers April 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Net neutrality—the notion that everyone has a right to equal access to the Internet—should be a bedrock principle of life on the web, Larry Lessig, law professor and Internet advocate, told the Federal Communications Commission ... | |
UCI study sheds new light on habits, roles of blog readers April 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In a first-of-its-kind study, UC Irvine researchers have provided new insight into blog readers' online habits and experiences, as well as how they perceive their roles in blog-based communities. | |
Web 2.0: Opening up, or dumbing down? April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Are Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and other Web 2.0 giants the scourge of American culture, laying waste to its 20th-century institutions and dumbing down society? | |
Stock exchange for 'grid' computing? February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the internet, or perhaps buying in extra resources to solve a tricky problem. In either case, network administration used to be a stumbling block – until European researchers ... | |
 SDSC Image of the Internet Universe on Display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art February 21, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A visualization depicting a frozen moment of activity in the Internet universe using computer tools at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, will be part of a special ... | |
Princeton researchers envision a more secure Internet February 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Like human society itself, the world's computerized infrastructure is wondrously complex, both spectacularly fertile and deeply flawed. | |
Cyber criminals cloak their tracks February 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The 2007 X-Force Security report from IBM finds a disturbing rise in the sophistication of attacks by criminals on Web browsers worldwide. According to IBM, by attacking the browsers of computer users, cyber criminals are ... | |
Why the Web tells us what we already know January 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The Internet is not the font of all knowledge, despite the plethora of information available at your fingertips. | |
 Web 3.0: user-generated networks? January 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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European researchers took the concepts of Web 2.0, like user-generated content and social networking, into the real world. They hope to create user-generated physical networks so internets could be set up, ... | |
Universities' alternative to Google launched January 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
An internet search engine rivalling the multimillion pound Google is to be launched at the end of January by The University of Manchester's national data centre Mimas. | |
Internet changing consumer electronics world: Intel chief January 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini today said the Internet will continue disrupting the consumer electronics and entertainment industries in new ways and described how the Internet's evolution will create business ... | |
Govt. of Canada invests in Newfoundland and Labrador Co. to build next-generation Internet portals January 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources (NRCan), announced $2 million in funding for a contract with Compusult Limited of Mount Pearl, ... | |
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