China has announced a mandatory measure that would have all computers sold in the country to get software installed that would filter the internet locally which is not surprising for they have been monitoring and screening the internet for quite sometime. China has long been blocking access to the many social and news web sites in what they say is a measure that upholds the law, something the rest of the world sees as a continuing repression of the right to information. Read more

The many corporations use them yet shun from using them full time, open-sourced utilities and programs that are mostly free compared to their multi-million dollar software. Businesses are worried and they have the right to be for they have been used to very secure closed-systems that are designed to be used by them and solely by them. Open-sourced systems are on the other hand, mostly developed by a community of experts and users alike, with the occasional commercial backing or support from big names are wide open security risks due to their dynamic nature. Read more

Facebook, Twitter and the many other social networking sites are getting the attention of malware makers indeed for their wide open API’s and almost opaque membership that have been attacked and even phished for personal information. Social networks are known for their being opaque to the outside world, a place where one can be anybody they choose with the right information and a few pictures grabbed from some other social photo sharing site. Read more

With access to the internet becoming more and more widespread, and more and more people discovering its ease of use, the practice of plagiarism - which is in a nutshell, copy pasting someone else’s work and passing it off as your own - has been on the rise.

This is why Creative Commons licenses now exist. Aimed at protecting website content, the Creative Commons website offers different kinds of licenses that show how an online author wishes his or her work to be used (or not used). CC licenses are also recognized by law, and ifan author wishes to enforce it against a plagiarist, then he or she has the option to do so.

To get a CC license, simple go to the website, and get the source code for the license you wish to use. Copy it and then paste it on your website’s code.

The secret meetings of the many newspaper giants have been exposed in what may be the next step in the evolution of the newspaper into the modern wired world. Many see the move as about ten years too late and many see it as a simple way for these media giants to simply save their butts which has been on the line for a long time. They may have little choice for as we have seen, many newspapers have been forced to shut-down operations due to the economic crisis that is sweeping the nation. With many local and major newspapers under threat, would they be able to survive the internet age?
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If there’s anything you should be worried about, it’s viruses and their elk. It gets even worse that just by viewing certain sites, you get them on your PC:

The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.

“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,” said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.”

So be very careful when clicking on unknown sites…

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Google has recenty announced the latest feature for their Gmail users. It will be releasing its SMS capability on GMail. Now you will be able to text your friends and loved ones while logged on to your GMail account. And you will also be able to receive text messages directly to your GMail. How cool can that be? It is very easy to use. It hopes to provide the users with greater mobility while feeling at home. Google’s latest feature works like this. You send your SMS to someone, Google has set aside 1000 phone numbers for one user, the phone number that is assigned to that SMS will then transmit the message to you. When the person replies back, the particular phone that sent your message will be the one to send it to your Gmail account. Cool.

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Blu Ray DVDs by Samsung can now play videostream on the Web via Netflix. Netflix is a popular online DVD rental company. This is the fourth partnership made by Netflix with an electronic consumers company. The main goal is to deliver movie titles online rather than through the ever so slow courier service. Netflix has tied up with big electronic companies like LG Electronics which enabled the user to stream movies to Microsoft XBox360 consoles. So for the owners of Samsung BD-P2250 and BD-P2500 Blu Ray players, they can immediately upgrade their devices free of charge so it can activate video streaming from the streaming service of Netflix. The company has a huge library of 12,00 movies and television series episodes. At the moment, Netflix enjoys a huge subscription of about 8million subscribers. And it has become a standard home must have services in the US. Web streaming service called ‘Watch Instantly’ is offered to its subscribers for free.

You want to start your business online? I have observed that digital books or what we call as Ebooks are gaining popularity n the internet arena. Information is always around. Being passed on for free on the net. People are slowly relying on these information to help them do a specific task down like, how to reduce weight, to a much more specialized task like trading, car repairs etc. Hard bound paper books that can teach you these things, are also widely available but people, most of the time turn to the net to look for them there.
If you are planning to do business online. I would recommend you try your hands on Ebooks. Here are some reasons why Ebooks can be an asset to you..

• It can be kept online.
• It must be paid for before you will be able to read it.
• It will virtually be available forever.
• Once sold, the customer can just download the file, and they will have it instantly. They will just have to store them on their personal computers or laptops.

So if you want to start off with a business online, try your hand in Ebooks.

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