Internet
Pentagon calls on Media not to carry WikiLeaks material
October 19, 2010The Pentagon appealed to news organizations Monday not to spread classified information released by the WikiLeaks Internet website. The site's owners are expected to release hundreds of thousands of secret Pentagon documents on the Iraq War, perhaps...
The Social Network's friends bring the movie $23 million
October 11, 2010By Stela Roman "The Social Network," the most awaited film about the Internet wunderkind who founded Facebook, topped the box office opening weekend with $23 million in ticket sales. The movie which stars newcomer Jesse Eisenberg , Mara Rooney...
People stay more time on Facebook than Google
September 11, 2010By Stela Roman According to market researcher ComScore, Internet users choose to spend more time socializing on Facebook than searching on Google. ComScore said U.S. Web users, in August, spent 41.1 million minutes on Facebook. That inched past the...
Critics target Google-Verizon plan for new internet regulation
August 11, 2010A proposal by Google and Verizon to change the way the Internet is regulated is drawing strong opposition from consumer advocates. The two companies have said content-creators should be allowed to pay to have their products delivered faster on the new...
Internet now nearly as important as TV as source of news for rural Russian youth
July 27, 2010by Paul Goble The Internet is now nearly as important as television as a source for news and information among rural Russian youth, a recent development that effectively breaks the monopoly state-controlled Moscow television had imposed on that portion...
July 03, 2010By Stela Roman A recent study made by UK free-antivirus firm Avast revealed that there are 99 virus infected non-pornographic pages for every infected porn page. It is a very high number especially when it is known that one-third of the Internet...
Why China hates Google? The red censor doesn't sleep
July 03, 2010By Stela Roman On Thursday, China blocked a Google search feature. The users were unable to use «suggest» feature, which shows possible results the user could be interested in while typing a query. Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell...
Obama wants the right to kill...Internet
June 29, 2010By Stela Roman President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill. The Protecting Cyberspace as a National...
Ooops! Google says it accidentally recorded private data
May 17, 2010U.S. Internet company Google says it "mistakenly" collected private data from wireless networks while mapping and photographing city streets around the world. In a corporate blog posted Friday, Google said the high-tech cars used for its "...
Cyrillic domain names become operational on the Internet
May 15, 2010By Claire Bigg It was a big day for Russian Internet users. The first Internet domains using the Cyrillic script were launched on May 13 after Russia was officially assigned the .рф (.rf, for "Russian Federation") domain by the global...