Next year, a bill will be enacted on monitoring all levels of communication on the Internet, including social networking sites such as Facebook, and direct communication messaging like Skype.
Bing Social will recommend which users to follow, as well as reviews, buzz, and what the latest trend users are buzzing about. Check it out!
Since the release of the ever so popular iPads, the sales of PCs and other tablets have soon declined. What could be some of the possible reasons? Eweek has compiled a top ten list as to why consumers are going for the new gadget and ditching the PCs.
I find it difficult to read through a webpage without seeing a barrage of advertisements and social media widgets that suggest you to tweet, like and digg. Although there times when you want to share a good read, there also times when you want to quickly scan through the page without being distracted. Well look no further because Readability is now the tool to use for those instances!
Facebook Credits, a Hot New Trend of Virtual Currency! I’m sure you have used or have heard of ‘Facebook Credits’, well now Facebook has joined the cause to fight cancer by having users donate their credits to the philanthropic organization Stand Up to Cancer . The organization also hosted an event that was live and [...]
I’m sure you’ve heard all the press about Google’s new features, especially the ‘Instant Search.’ The search is faster, more precise and user friendly! Try it, if you haven’t already!
The ever-changing technology provides an insight to what will be the next hot new item along side social media! Most media outlets will soon be customized and personalized, we will never be bored again!
Nick Carr is worried the Internet is making us stupid. It’s not so much our preoccupation with LOLCat photos or videos of fat girls flying off of swings that concerns him as it is the way we read and consume information on the Internet itself. He thinks the Internet is rewiring our brains, perhaps for the worse, and he’s written a book to warn us all about it called The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains. Carr also finds links to be too distracting.
Synthetic biology received about $430 million in U.S. government funding from 2005 to 2010, far outpacing European governments, which gave their synthetic biologists $160 million over the same period. The emerging field received nearly no funding before 2005, according to a new Woodrow Wilson Center report.
A new browser plug-in kicked off by Palo Alto-based Sharetivity allows individual users to customize, save, share and discuss content all in one location: their browser. PALM DESERT, California — March 23, 2010 — If you’ve ever experienced the hassle of multiple tabs, bookmarking endlessly, and copy and pasting into e-mails in order to keep [...]