Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan got together via email in the 1998 film ‘You’ve Got Mail.’ Now they would likely use Twitter.
Many scoffed when Mark Zuckerberg declared the death of email last month. Now new figures reveal that the Facebook founder may be right. Just like cassettes, videos and faxes, the use of email appears to be in an irreversible decline.
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Top 10 online scams
Almost every web surfer has encountered online scams before, ranging from lotto winnings to “cries” for help. Panda Security released a ranking of the top scams of the last ten years, based on their distribution and frequency.
They are as follows:
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Computer geeks do so love using weird and oddly poetic buzz words to describe new trends. From these formidable minds, we mere mortals were handed such gems as “phishing”, “blog”, “spam”, “digg” and “cookies”. Yes, cookies.
Continue reading… “Cloud Computing – New Buzz Word To Describe New Trend”
Large numbers of US Internet users joined online communities last year, and membership in such groups is now a mainstream activity.
Nearly half of US Internet users surveyed for the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future’s “2008 Digital Future Project” report said they belonged to a hobby-oriented online community. A full 41% of respondents belonged to an online social community, and one-third belonged to an online professional community.
Continue reading… “Online Community Memberships Booming”
