President Barack Obama recently held a Google+ video Hangout; Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich promised to have a permanent U.S. moon-base by 2020; and fellow Republican Mitt Romney, along with Gingrich and Obama, are against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA). So, as politicians go, these guys are all pretty tech-savvy [...]
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How Web savvy are Romney, Gingrich and Obama?
February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: Desktop · Infrastructure · Internet · Mobile · Network · SmartPhone · Tablet · Web browser · Web Services
How to keep your face out of LinkedIn ads
January 30th, 2012 · No Comments
Google has unified its privacy policies, Facebook is rolling out its Timeline feature, and the FBI is looking for help to monitor all the social networks. All that has people feeling a little twitchy about the personal information they’ve placed online. And, now some people have noticed that LinkedIn, the business and jobs social network, [...]
Tags: Business · Internet · Network · Security · Social Networking
For the good of the nation, broadband for all
January 30th, 2012 · No Comments
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski recently announced a plan that would expand the Universal Service Fund’s Lifeline program to include broadband Internet service. The concept of universal service dates to the Communications Act of 1934 and was expanded by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Today, the Lifeline program provides land-line telephone service to [...]
Closing Megaupload unlikely to even slow piracy down
January 24th, 2012 · No Comments
The U.S. Department of Justice working in conjunction with New Zealand’s law enforcement agencies has taken down the popular file-storage and sharing site Megaupload. So, since Megaupload has been shut down, Internet piracy has gone down significantly, right? Right? Well, probably not, NPD market researcher Russ Crupnick said, “Only about 3 percent of the U.S. [...]
Tags: Business · Internet · Legal · Network · Network Services · Peer to Peer · Web Services
Weekend Anonymous attacks bring down major websites
January 23rd, 2012 · No Comments
The Internet-based hacker and protest group Anonymous is still ticked up by the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) takedown of Megaupload. Last week, Anonymous took down the DoJ, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and Universal Music with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Over the weekend, [...]
Tags: Internet · Network · Network Services · Security · Web Services