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Tether It Up on AT&T with iPhone OS 4.0 Beta

Published on May 18, 2010 By Lansia

Not too long ago, iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 was released! I’m not sure if this is old news — I admit, I’m a bit out of the loop… But tethering! That has to be somewhat fresh news… iPhone OS 4.0 beta has a tethering option! iPhone user? Not excited? Yeah, I wasn’t very excited [...]

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The Powers of Internet Addiction: Helping or Hindering Livelihood?

Published on April 24, 2010 By Lansia

An article in the Sydney Morning Herald recently caught my attention… Two million internet addicts. As folks that don’t readily reveal their age say, I remember the time… when internet wasn’t even part of my life. Although, I have no clue what I did in place of surfing the net in those days… Playing outside, [...]

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Internet Searches: Therapists Reaching Beyond, All In Good Faith?

Published on March 30, 2010 By Lansia

So I’m looking through my feeds today… reading the headlines, scouring the net, searching for something interesting. The iPad is coming to stores soon… possibly. Google mobile services have been partially blocked in China. Nothing catching my eye just yet… An iPhone for Verizon may debut before year end. Microsoft has patched a number of [...]

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Facebook: Bringing ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’ to the General Public Level

Published on March 29, 2010 By Lansia

Last week or so, Financial Times declared Facebook a “bigger hit than Google.” Hitwise, an online intelligence research firm, found Facebook “surpassed Google in the US to become the most visited website for the week” ending March 13, 2010. In just one year, visits to Facebook increased 185% whereas, Google had only increased 9% in [...]

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190,000 Responses and Counting for Google’s Super-Speedy Fiber Network Internet

Published on March 26, 2010 By Lansia

Have you been itching to ride the experimental Google Fiber network? Dustin and I have been rooting for Google to build in our Salt Lake suburb. Bigger, stronger, faster!! Internet!!!!!! In this day and age where many of us can’t get through the day without going online (and checking Facebook), Google decided to venture into [...]

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Google Halts Censoring in China, Redirects to Hong Kong

Published on March 22, 2010 By Lansia

Google announced today that they have stopped censoring their search services on Google China. Google says… Figuring out how to make good on our promise to stop censoring search on Google.cn has been hard. We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, [...]

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Chatroulette with SoftwareNewsDaily.com

Published on March 18, 2010 By Lansia

Tried your hand at Chatroulette yet? Talk of Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17-year-old high school student, and his website has been circulating the world wide web waves for quite some time now. But if you haven’t heard of it, it’s basically a chat site that randomly pairs two webcam-enabled users to have at it — a [...]

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FCC Considering Free Wireless Broadband Service?

Published on March 9, 2010 By Lansia

Reuters tells us that the FCC will be proposing a dedicated spectrum for free wireless Internet. Not much else has been said about the implementation of “free or very low cost wireless broadband service,” since the recommendation, under the National Broadband Plan does not release until next week. If this happens, we won’t be the [...]

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Wireless Internet For Your Taxi Ride

Published on March 4, 2010 By Lansia

It’s not uncommon that airports have free wi-fi. It’s also not that uncommon that your flight has (possibly not free) wi-fi now. I’ve even frequented a commuter van pool that had wi-fi for us to continue working while traveling up and down the canyon — a way of encouraging more time to work or a [...]

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The Socialization of Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and Other Social Media at Work

Published on February 25, 2010 By Lansia

A couple of eye-brow raising stats came out recently. The Society for New Communications Research released a study regarding journalists and their use of social media. It’s no shock that the study revealed the “use of social media tools by journalists is surging, growing in double-digit percentages in some cases.” But, as ZDNet points out… [...]

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