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07.19.11 / Using the Internet Affects your Memory

The Internet is a widespread resource used by millions of people everyday, but is it possible that this helpful resource is actually changing how we remember things? Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia, performed a study to … Read more »

06.30.09 / US Senators Push Legislation to Punish Nokia Siemens

Should foreign companies that sell technology to Iran be barred from receiving federal contracts in the United States? According to two US Senators, the answer is a resounding yes. Hot on the heels of several news reports indicating that Nokia … Read more »

06.23.09 / Iranian Web Spying Enabled by Western Technology

Communication technology in the digital age is a double-edged sword. By building a communications network, you also intrinsically provide the technological means to use that network for all sorts of nefarious purposes, many of which do not conform, exactly, to … Read more »

04.17.09 / Who Will Stimulate Broadband Growth, and How?

Internet service providers fighting with the Federal Communications Commission.  The feds grappling with the states.  This is what you get when you wave a $7.2 billion dollar bill around—did you expect anything less?  And the stakes involved are no less … Read more »

03.24.09 / Skype to Enter Corporate Market

The Wall Street Journal reports that Skype is set to announce Skype for SIP, a version of its popular internet telephone call software for corporations.  The new software is expected to allow employees to make domestic and international calls via … Read more »

03.13.09 / More and More Professional Sports Being Broadcast Online

Want to see a different camera angle?  Want to watch up to four games at a time?  Want to catch your favorite hometown team even though you live in another city?  You can, but don’t look to the boob tube … Read more »

02.4.09 / In Tough Economic Times, People Escape to the Internet

Echoing a trend of the Great Depression, as people turned to the movies to take their mind off of economic woes, people these days are turning to the internet, reports the Wall Street Journal. Even though many online entertainment venues … Read more »

01.20.09 / Choosing the Right Domain Name Is Getting Trickier and Trickier

As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is poised to start selling new top-level domain names over 2009—names with suffixes that play on popular subjects, geographic locations, or even brand names—choosing the right domain name for their … Read more »

01.8.09 / Israeli-Hamas Conflict Spills Over Onto Internet

Not content with simply shooting, bombing, and rocketing each other in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli-Hamas conflict is being fought on another front as well:  the internet. As reported by ynetnews.com, an English-language news website operated by Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s … Read more »

12.23.08 / Is Social Networking Killing Cable News?

The blogsphere and the greater universe of social networking websites, miniature applications, widgets, and what-have-you were abuzz this past Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 26th) with news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.  For much of the technocrati keeping up with … Read more »