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Laundering Internet usage data to protect privacy: Laundering Internet usage data to protect privacyGoogle and Yahoo must do this...... or wary customers will just have to start using encryption and anti-theft apllications when they email. The amount of consumer mistrust associated with these site will only grow, when it comes to matters of data collection. Webmail users...; Tags: E-mail, SECURITY, Internet-usage; Discussion threads 2006-09-08
Internet usage highest among whites, hispanics, college grads, 18-29 years old: Internet usage highest among whites, hispanics, college grads, 18-29 years oldYa think?I hope they didn't pay too much to track this data. It is sort of like saying "Denture cream usage is highest with the elderly."; Tags: Internet-usage, years old; Discussion threads 2005-10-11
Internet usage highest among whites, hispanics, college grads, 18-29 years old: Pew Internet and American Life Project published an analysis of Internet access trends from 2000 to 2005 hence five bars among various social strata in the United States. Americans aged 50-64 experienced the highest growth as far as Internet usage over the past five years.; Tags: Internet-usage; Blog posts 2005-10-09
Internet usage by country, February 2004: Internet usage by country, February 2004Active Internet Users by Country,February 2004, Home CountryJanuary2004February2004GrowthChange Australia8,228,5318,407,8062.18%179,274Brazil12,093,39412,484,4753.23%391,080France13,784,27413,781,013-0.02%-3,261 Germany26,661,73427,033,6871.40%371,953 Hong Kong2,499,0362,699,2758.01%200,239 Italy15,909,62115,772,348-0.86%-137,273Japan29,954,69031,097,2063.81%1,142,516Netherlands7,598,0687,757,7512.10%159,683Spain8,217,5068,331,3851.39%113,879Sweden4,561,4914,609,2031.05%47,712Switzerland3,078,1183,009,180-2.24%-68,938UnitedKingdom20,870,33520,953,2560.40%82,921UnitedStates141,021,454141,389,9930.26%368,539 TOTALS294,478,251297,326,5760.96%2,848,325Source: Nielsen//NetRatings; Tags: Internet-usage; Blog posts 2004-03-24

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COPA suffers another blow: InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools among other institutions that fail to prevent children from "content harmful to minors." If you're asking just what constitutes "harmful to minors", so...; Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Minor, Regulations, Government, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-23

Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service: Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting (.pdf), will be unveiled next...; Tags: Google PageRank, Attacker, Network, DShield, Highly Predictive Blacklist, Internet, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-23
166 Frames of Fame: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," Andy Warhol famously said in 1968. Turns out, four decades into the future, the tomato can and Marilyn Monroe pop artist was an optimist. Now, anyone and everyone who wants...; Tags: Blog, Post, Gawker, Warhol, Blogging, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-23
October Esquire magazine will use electronic ink: Earlier this month I mentioned how Hearst is embracing the mobile web by offering much of their content on mobile phones. Hearst is now going to bring a bit of mobile technology to print media with their usage of electronic ink in the October issue of Esquire. The electronic ink...; Tags: Electronic Ink, Mobile, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-23
AT&T's quarter hits mark; Wireless churn falls; iPhone 3G sells well: AT&T on Wednesday reported second quarter earnings of $3.8 billion, or 63 cents a share, on revenue of $30.9 billion. Adjusted earnings were 76 cents a share, a tally that met Wall Street estimates. In the second quarter a year ago, AT&T reported net income of $2.9...; Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-23
News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Element Browser (zip): Element Browser is a full featured, fast and Web standards compliant Web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. It features a intuitive, modern ribbon interface with tools that are designed to simplify every day browsing tasks. Element Browser has been designed from the ground up to be one of the...; Tags: Web Browser, Element Software, Web Browsers, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security; Software downloads 2008-07-23
Vantage Giga (zip): Suites large to enterprise organizations. Vantage Giga is a monitoring and reporting software that provides interactive reporting interfaces into key functions of Internet and network usage within organizations. Vantage can import and translate different types of log files, providing powerful, yet easy to use, drilldown analysis capabilities with a comprehensive...; Tags: Analysis, Organization, WebSpy, Vantage Giga, Internet; Software downloads 2008-07-23
Track a user's Internet Explorer History with IEHistoryView: Tracking a user's browsing history can be both an expensive and a daunting task, especially if you're a one-man shop in a small company. IEHistoryView from NirSoft is a simple, yet powerful, tool you can use to quickly see a user's browsing history.; Tags: History, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Wally Bahny, Productivity, Web Browsers, Internet; Download resources 2008-07-23
Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers: From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...; Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf - Father of Internet: I spoke with Vint Cerf at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay. I asked him about net neutrality and the problems created by Telcos in trying to own the gateways to the Internet. Here is the video, the quality is very high contrast because of...; Tags: Vint Cerf, Internet, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Needed: iPhone radio toggle application: Needed: iPhone radio toggle applicationThis is what "smartphone" is all about.Back when Palm OS was king, part of its success was the 3rd party developers no need to make up the term cottage industry. The Palm OS provided a good platform for 3rd party development, so that pretty much anyone...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Needed, Apple iPhone, radio, Palm OS, Apple Inc., Palm Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-07-22
Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard: Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboardLarge services such as this can not...are too big to manage. Managing this type of technology with technology will time after time result in mismanagement. Just like Gmail and other that are spamming the Internet.Networks require real human intervention to manage properly. Anything less is...; Tags: Spam, Twitter, anti-spam, anti-spam effort; Discussion threads 2008-07-22
E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering: Wow, big morning! If anyone has seen Nitesh Dhanjani and Billy Rios's talk on phishing and identity theft, which was presented at the last couple Black Hat conferences, and will be on display again at Black Hat Vegas, you know that the identity theft market is a huge problem. You...; Tags: Flooz, Currency Service, Identity Theft, Phishing, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Can health bring AOL back?: After dominating much of the 1990s as a system apart from the Internet, AOL has pinned its hopes for the future on building scaled consumer Web sites that can draw big audiences. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: America Online Inc., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Y2K, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Aren't the Nokia N800/N810 devices dead simple web tablets?: Michael Arrington's post on creating a cheap web tablet is generating a lot of discussion on the internet and as a mobile enthusiast I wanted to add some of my thoughts to the discussion. There is a device available now that has dropped down as low as US$299.99 recently that...; Tags: Web, Device, Nokia Corp., Michael Arrington, Tablets, Channel Management, Notebooks, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-22