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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: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s) | User comments: 8

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) | User comments: 2

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) | User comments: 2

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 / 5 after 21 vote(s) | User comments: 3

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) | User comments: 1

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, ...


No Right to E-mail: NLRB Looks Through the Looking Glass & Sees Absolutely No Problem

December 29, 2007 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 2

The NLRB recently handed down a decision relating to the use of e-mail by an Oregon newspaper guild, (union) and found what is and what was, isn't necessarily true no more.


The Quarterlife Dilemma: WWW Means World-Wide-Web

December 26, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | No comments yet

The Twenty-something twice-weekly drama, "Quarterlife The Show" is the first independent production to move to big time broadcasting. Its initial blockbuster appearance on MySpace and YouTube has waned recently. ...


YouTube breeding ground for anti-vaccination views

December 05, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3

As cold and flu season hits this year amid growing debate over the necessity of vaccinations, University of Toronto researchers have uncovered widespread misinformation in related videos on YouTube.


Google Plans 2008 Launch of Enhanced Web Hosting

December 04, 2007 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Google plans to launch Google Sites in 2008. The initial plan is to enhance Google Apps and Google Page Creator features by using JotSpot for collaboration tools. The new enhanced features may set up a possible ...


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