Internet Use/New Technologies
19 April 2013
Australians spending less time social networking Sydney Morning Herald
The amount of time Australians spend on social media sites is declining, new research involving three million internet users has revealed.
18 April 2013
Delivery the key to growing online retail The Guardian
As internet shopping continues to grow - UK customers are expected to spend £87bn online in 2013 - retailers and logistics firms are having to up their game in order to meet high customer expectations.
Americans spend 16 minutes of every hour online on social nets Computerworld
Americans are so fixated on social networks that they spend an average of 16 minutes out of every hour on them, according to a study by Experian Marketing Services.
16 April 2013
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg defends mobile advertising plans The Guardian
Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, has said the social network stands by its mobile advertising plan, despite concerns that users will be bombarded with unwanted messages.
14 April 2013
Cash is on the line when Facebook comes calling... The Observer
Infectious diseases, says the World Health Organisation, "are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi; the diseases can be spread, directly or indirectly, from one person to another." Quite so. Just like Facebook addiction, which also spreads from person to person and has now reached pandemic proportions, with more than a billion sufferers worldwide.
12 April 2013
Internet Speeds Fail to Meet Promises in Germany, Study Shows New York Times
A government study released Thursday supports what many German consumers have long suspected: Internet broadband service is much slower than advertised.
11 April 2013
Friendships cut short on social media as people get ruder - survey Reuters
Rudeness and throwing insults are cutting online friendships short with a survey on Wednesday showing people are getting ruder on social media and two in five users have ended contact after a virtual altercation.
PC sales worldwide have tumbled, data from IDC shows BBC News
Global sales of PCs fell 14% in the first three months this year, the biggest fall since research firm IDC started tracking the industry in 1994.
10 April 2013
Facebook Grabs for Your Phone. What Gives? New York Times
Facebook, man. Unbelievable. Second-most-visited Web site in the world. Frequented monthly by one-sixth of the earth's population. Primary source of news for half of America's young people.
Digital Gold Rush: The Bitcoin Boom and Its Many Risks Der Spiegel
In the midst of the euro crisis, particularly daring investors are putting their faith in the Internet currency bitcoin. A boom in the virtual coins has made some into millionaires. But central bankers are wary of its potential, and the currency is everything but crash-proof.
09 April 2013
Online Habits Coming Slowly to America's Older Adults New York Times
Older adults hit a digital milestone last year: For the first time since the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project began conducting surveys, a majority (53 percent) of people over age 65 used the Internet. The proportion has since inched upward, to 54 percent.
Australian internet users on a data download frenzy Reuters
Australians downloaded data on the internet at a breakneck pace last year even as the total number of subscribers neared saturation point, a trend that is only likely to grow as the country's broadband network is upgraded.
Bubble or No, This Virtual Currency Is a Lot of Coin in Any Realm New York Times
When he was a Yale Law School student, Reuben Grinberg wrote one of the first academic papers about Bitcoin, a novel virtual currency that uses sophisticated cryptography to validate and secure transactions that exist only online.
08 April 2013
Facebook now charges you for messages sent to celebrities and people you aren't friends with The Independent
Facebook has started charging UK users up to £10 to send messages to celebrities and people they aren't friends with.
05 April 2013
Libraries to store all UK web content BBC News
Millions of tweets, Facebook status updates and even a blog about a bus shelter in Shetland are to be preserved for the nation.
04 April 2013
As Web Search Goes Mobile, Competitors Chip at Google's Lead New York Times
Say you need a latté. You might pull out your phone, open the Yelp app and search for a nearby cafe. If instead you want to buy an espresso machine, you will most likely tap Amazon.com.
Facebook usage linked to student grades New Zealand Herald
A New Zealand study has found most students check Facebook each day, and there could be a link to academic performance.
03 April 2013
Australian small business 'ignoring social media' Australian Financial Review
Nearly three quarters of small and medium businesses in Australia are failing to use social media as a marketing tool, research conducted by Telstra shows.
02 April 2013
Youth flock to mobile messaging apps, may be threat to Facebook Reuters
Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music.
01 April 2013
Papers Worldwide Embrace Web Subscriptions New York Times
Newspapers, once reluctant to try to charge readers for access to their Web sites, have begun doing so in droves.
31 March 2013
The paywalls go up - but papers still aren't secure The Observer
The free news model is dying in the US, where more and more media groups are charging. But that revenue doesn't nearly replace what has been lost on print advertising and cover price
Facebook research: What our usage reveals about us TechHive
Facebook is hot -- or not, depending when and whom you ask. But there's no shortage of people talking about the merits and demerits of the social network, especially researchers who love to dig into how it's helping or hurting its users.
28 March 2013
Google and Sweden in war of words over ogooglebar The Guardian
There's now officially no word for "ungoogleable", meaning "impossible to find via web search" in Swedish - although there was a term until this week.
27 March 2013
TV time 'does not breed badly behaved children' BBC News
Spending hours watching TV or playing computer games each day does not harm young children's social development, say experts.
26 March 2013
What You Didn't Post, Facebook May Still Know New York Times
... In shaping its targeted advertising strategy, it is no longer relying solely on what Facebook users reveal about themselves. Instead, it is tapping into outside sources of data to learn even more about them -- and to sell ads that are more finely targeted to them. Facebook says that this way, marketers will be able to reach the right audience for the right products, and consumers will see advertisements that are, as the company calls it, "relevant" to them.
