Internet Use/New Technologies
27 January 2013
Foodstagram: the restaurant trend that's driving New York chefs crazy The Independent
They call it "foodstagramming", and it's the curse of modern dining.
25 January 2013
Having an Internet connection is crucial to everyday life, German federal court says CIO
Internet access is as crucial to everyday life as having a phone connection and the loss of connectivity is deserving of financial compensation, the German Federal Court of Justice has ruled.
24 January 2013
Akamai report: Global internet speeds slowed down in 2012, third of cyberattacks from China The Australian
Global internet connection speeds around the world slowed in late 2012, according to a survey that suggested a temporary stall in broadband gains.
23 January 2013
Google boasts 4 billion hours of YouTube viewing per month CNET
YouTube viewers watched 4 billion hours of the site's videos per month in 2012, a Google executive boasted during Google's fourth-quarter earnings call today.
Facebook may be making you hate life, study says Los Angeles Times
Are you jealous of everyone you know? If so, it might be time to take a break from Facebook.
DLD 2013: Google's dominance will loosen, says expert The Guardian
What of the future of search? Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures went out on a limb at the DLD13 conference on Tuesday to predict that Google will not be able to retain such a dominant market share, and pointed out that Microsoft already has a 15% share of the US search market with Bing.
22 January 2013
Web 're-defining' human identity says chief scientist BBC News
Social networks such as Facebook and on-line gaming are changing people's view of who they are and their place in the world, according to a report for the government's chief scientist.
21 January 2013
Overuse of internet gaming or gambling set to be a mental illness News.com.au
Internet addiction is likely to be classified as a mental illness, as Australian psychiatrists warn teenagers and single men are getting "hooked" on online gaming.
20 January 2013
How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook's Graph Search Electronic Frontier Foundation
Earlier this week, Facebook launched a new feature -- Graph Search -- that raised some privacy concerns with us. Graph Search allows users to make structured searches to filter through friends, friends of friends, and strangers. This feature relies on your profile information being made widely or publicly available, yet there are some Likes, photos, or other pieces of information that you might not want out there.
Facebook: The social network's shares recover as it fixes its search problem The Economist
Mark Zuckerberg is trying to spice up things online with some pillar talk. Unveiling a revamped search engine on January 15th, the boss of Facebook referred to it as the "third pillar" of the social network alongside its timeline, which lets individual users post what they have been up to, and its news feed, which lets them see what their friends are doing. Facebook's search offering has long been so dire that any improvement to it is a welcome relief. But the company will have to do much more in future if it wants to mount a serious challenge to Google's dominance of the online-search business.
18 January 2013
The Internet In 2012: 634 Million Websites, 2.4 Billion Users Mashable
The folks from uptime monitoring company Royal Pingdom have assembled a gargantuan list of various internet-related stats from 2012, and it's a very interesting read.
17 January 2013
Facebook Graph Search: Zuckerberg reveals origin of Google privacy rift The Guardian
Founder of social media giant tells press conference for search tool why negotiations between Facebook and Google fell apart
16 January 2013
China Now has 564 Million Internet Users CIO
China's Internet population reached 564 million at the end of December, an increase of 26 million over the past six months, according to a non-profit research group in the country.
Facebook unveils social search tools for users BBC News
Facebook has announced a major addition to its social network - a smart search engine it has called graph search.
Facebook on Collision Course With Google on Web Searches Wall Street Journal
After years of collecting photos and personal data from its billion-plus members, Facebook Inc. Tuesday unveiled a search tool that sifts through people's profiles -- and pushes the social network deeper into Google Inc.'s home turf.
15 January 2013
Fortunes of Facebook May Hinge on Searches New York Times
Nearly a year after it announced its bid to go public, Facebook is confronting the ultimate burden of the information age: how to help its users find what they are looking for amid the billions of pictures, "likes" and status updates they post every day.
Facebook UK loses 600,000 users in December The Guardian
The number of Facebook's UK users dropped by 600,000 in December, according to data by social media monitoring firm SocialBakers.
PC shipments drop by about 6% as consumers opt for tablets The Guardian
The story for the PC business keeps getting worse. Figures released by the research groups IDC and Gartner show that in the fourth quarter of 2012 sales of PCs dropped by about 6% year-on-year to 90m, as the business undergoes what Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa called a "structural shift", with people buying new tablets instead of updating older PCs.
13 January 2013
Mystery Solved: Why It Costs $100 to Send Mark Zuckerberg a Facebook Message Wall Street Journal
There's a theory floating around on the Internet today that Facebook is testing a new way of making money: charging a lot of money to send messages to popular people on Facebook.
11 January 2013
Anonymous comments, gutless trolls, and why it's time we all stop drinking this digital poison The Independent
Why is anonymity, the bane of every newspaper Letters Editor in the world, accepted as cyber-journalism - the more hateful, the more understandable?
Women in developing countries lag in Internet use - Intel report Reuters
More needs to be done to boost women's and girl's lagging online access, tech giant Intel Corp said in a report to be released later on Thursday that calls for doubling the number of female Internet users in developing nations over the next three years.
Facebook 'Friends,' and Why We Should Lose the Scare Quotes The Atlantic
With every click on Facebook, you leave a little trail of your social life. Now researchers are saying they can piece those clues together, and pick out who your closest friends are.
10 January 2013
Twitter under fire in France over offensive hashtags The Guardian
Twitter is coming under increasing pressure from the French government over homophobic, racist and anti-semitic tweets which Paris says contravene its laws on hate-speech.
A third of Britain's poorest pupils 'without internet at home' BBC News
More than a third of the poorest children do not have the internet at home and a similar number do not have a computer, official figures suggest.
09 January 2013
CES: Vint Cerf: Your shirt shouldn't have Internet access CNET
The Internet has come a long way since he helped create it in the 1970s, Vint Cerf told an audience at CES today -- but there are still some places it shouldn't go.
