Feb 25
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… …
Feb 24
Beck & Lee (Miami) and the Weston Firm (San Diego) filed a class action lawsuit against Yelp yesterday. Why? Well, according to the Yelp Class Action Website, “the lawsuit alleges that Yelp runs an extortion scheme in which the company’s employees call businesses demanding monthly payments, in the guise of ‘advertising contracts,’ in exchange for …
Feb 23
Beginning March 1st, Google’s tipping over the dominoes and starting the phase-out of Internet Explorer 6. March 1st begins Google’s drop for IE 6 support in regards to Google Docs and Google Sites. “As a result, you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products — as well as new Docs and …
Jan 25
Remember not too long ago when pagers were the fad of the times? I believe I was pretty cool by knowing that “8181″ in pager code meant “bye-bye.” Well, at least, it did amongst my peers when I lived in San Gabriel Valley, California — where the Asian population ranked fairly high (in Chinese, “8-1-8-1″ …
Jan 13
Is China going too far? Was the Chinese government behind, as Google puts it, “a highly sophisticated and targeted attack” that’s gotten Google ready to pull out of China? In mid-December Google and, apparently, about 20 other companies, were attacked. Google’s investigation discovered “that the accounts of dozens of U.S.-, China- and Europe-based Gmail users …
Jan 04
Did you know that over 20 threats emerge every minute? Actually, there is a new one every 2.5 seconds. Most of these threats are from the web. According to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive, the average adult Internet user spends an average of 13 hours a week online — a trend that has been …
Dec 15
The Federal Government in Australia is introducing an internet filter that will block access to sites containing obscene and criminal content — think child sex abuse, sexual violence, bestiality, detailed tutorials on how to commit crimes and other things that are most likely found in the Anarchist’s Cookbook. The Huffington Post reports that such material …
Dec 09
In a recently released study from the University of California, San Diego, Americans were found to consume about 1.3 trillion hours of information. in 2008 Eating up 3.6 zettabytes of information and 10,845 trillion words, that equals out to 34 gigabytes and 100,500 words each day, per person! Uh, Zettabyte?!? A zettabyte = a 1 …
Jun 05
A recent blog post on the Harvard Business page contains some interesting insight into the true nature of Twitter and its users. Its authors, Bill Heil and Mikolaj Piskorski, studied gender differences and overall usage patterns on Twitter. What they found is rather revealing, but not entirely surprising. The main statistic I found interesting is …
Jun 01
McAfee recently released a study of the riskiest search terms on the Internet. This report attempts to identify the keywords that hackers around the globe are targeting as points of entry for their malicious websites, viruses, and malware scripts. McAfee analyzed more than 2,600 keywords across five major search engines to determine which were the …
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