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Porn Filtering Software for Kids’ Mobile Phones Sends Images to Parents

March 1, 2011

Mobile filtering software is limited or non-existent.

Parents who want to prevent their children from accessing pornographic material online normally only worry about traditional PCs, but what’s the use of installing filtering software now that kids can get porn on their phones? Internet-enabled smartphones can access any pornographic website, but mobile filtering software is limited or non-existent. And with the rise of sexting, children can even share their own indecent images.

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government, Internet, Video Games

Access to Nighttime Online Games Will Be Blocked in Vietnam

February 24, 2011

Online games will be blocked between the hours of 10pm to 8am.

Gamers in Vietnam will soon have to rearrange their schedules if they’re used to playing videogames online at night. The country’s Ministry of Information and Communication is requesting that local internet service providers block online games access between the hours of 10pm and 8am.

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Amazon Takes On Netflix with Unlimited Video Streaming

February 23, 2011

Amazon has announced it will stream movies for free to people who subscribe to the e-tailer’s Prime service.

For years, Amazon appeared to be a big pushover when it came to delivering Web entertainment.

During the early part of the Internet Age, Amazon shipped CDs and DVDs to customers who ordered them via the Web and CEO Jeff Bezos’ company was synonymous with Web music and movies. Then Apple’s iTunes, and Netflix, laid waste to physical discs by delivering digital downloads or streaming video and Amazon quietly drifted to the back of the pack.

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Demand for Mobile Data Overwhelming Cell Networks

February 17, 2011

Popularity of smartphones continues to grow on a global scale.

At the Mobile World Congress, the industry’s largest annual gathering being held here this week, the corporate visionaries of the business agreed that a challenge they all would face was managing the avalanche of demand for mobile data services fueled by the growth in smartphones.

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Analysis, Internet, Science & Technology News

Switching to IPv6 Near as the World Runs Out of IP Addresses

February 15, 2011

Internet Protocol version 6

Who could have guessed that 4.3 billion Internet connections wouldn’t be enough? Certainly not Vint Cerf.

In 1976, Mr. Cerf and his colleagues in the R.& D. office of the Defense Department had to make a judgment call: how much network address space should they allocate to an experiment connecting computers in an advanced data network?

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The More Unusual Your Username the Easier it is For Marketers and Scammers to Track You

February 14, 2011

Your unusual username could allow marketers and scammers to build a more complex picture of you.

By creating a distinctive username—and reusing it on multiple websites—you may be giving online marketers and scammers a simple way to track you. Four researchers from the French National Institute of Computer Science (INRIA) studied over 10 million usernames—collected from public Google profiles, eBay accounts, and several other sources. They found that about half of the usernames used on one site could be linked to another online profile, potentially allowing marketers and scammers to build a more complex picture the users.

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How J.C. Penney Used ‘Black Hat’ Optimization to Become the Number One Search Result on Google

February 13, 2011

Pretend for a moment that you are Google’s search engine. Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first result?

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Analysis, Brain, Culture, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Information Age Overload – Every Day Average Person Produces Six Newspapers Worth of Information

February 12, 2011

We receive 5 times more information today than we did in 1986.

If you think that you are suffering from information overload then you may be right – a new study shows everyone is bombarded by the equivalent of 174 newspapers of data a day. The growth in the internet, 24-hour television and mobile phones means that we now receive five times as much information every day as we did in 1986.

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Animals, Food, Internet, Latest Trend

‘Prey Model’ Pet Diet – Surge in Illegal Internet Sales of Raw Wild Game

February 12, 2011

Trendy pet diet of raw wild game.

Feeding Fido or Fluffy a raw, all-natural cuisine could land you in the slammer for up to six months if you’re not careful where you buy the deer, duck or other meat.

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First Time Ever Smart Phones Outsell Personal Computers

February 9, 2011

People tend to replace their phones much more often than they do their computers.

Smart phones such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone are outselling personal computers for the first time ever, according to a report by research group IDC that was released Monday.

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British Plan Closure of Over 450 Libraries

February 9, 2011

Under 50-year-old laws, local councils currently have a legal obligation to provide comprehensive library services.

Public libraries across the country could be closed to save money, under plans being considered by ministers. More than 450 libraries are facing closure because of public spending cuts. The Government believes that the spread of the internet and other social changes may mean that councils should be free to close libraries.

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60% of Children Lie About Their Age on the Internet

February 9, 2011

Parents are being encouraged to take an interest in and support their children’s online activity during Safer Internet Day.

Young people are defying the dangers that adults have warned them about and are still taking chances that could put themselves at risk online, according to new research. Six out of every 10 young people who make contact with strangers on the internet lie about their age, a new survey has revealed, and 43 per cent have online ‘friends’ they’ve never met in real life, says research to mark Safer Internet Day.

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