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Nearly one third of Americans think Internet is useless |
 ...About one third of U.S. households do not have any access to the Internet. But what is even more surprising they do not intend to get one. The reason is that households do not consider Internet to be useful for their every day lives.
A technology market research firm located in Dallas, called Park Associates, outlined that 29% of households from the United States (which is about 31 million homes) do not even intend to g... |
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One dollar salary for Google's founders |
 ...arry Page and Sergey Brin, in 2006 earned their salaries of just one dollar. The information was provided after the examination of specific documents.
The two partners who were able to create the Internet giant starting with a small room in Stanford University, in 1990's, received last year only nominal wages from their company. According to the statements that were filed with the United States securities and exchange... |
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Attempt to control the blogosphere wakes up howls of protests |
 ... blogosphere, faced howls of protests. The debates began after the attempt to create a code of conduct, which has the goal of getting rid of offensive comments.
The protests were inevitable as two Internet giants thought of joining forces and propose a certain set of guidelines, which are to become filters for abusive and offensive comments from blogs. Ironically the offensive comment filter proposal faced abusive comm... |
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Lawsuit to Target E-mail Harvesters and Spammers |
 ...A federal lawsuit, on behalf of Project Honey Pot, was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria by a company that represents internet users from more than 100 countries. The company has the goal of identifying those users that gather millions of e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers.
Project Honey Pot is a service of Unspam Technologies, which, in its turn, is a Utah based company that consults with differ... |
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School Cleaner Took Pics of Kids in the Toilet |
 ...in it to make photos of the intimate parts of the children . More than 90 images were later superimposed on the photos depicting sexual activity to make adult pictures.
He was also known to browse internet for children porn pictures.
Justice Peter Evans of the Supreme Court of Tasmania pleaded the man guilty of indecency, production and possession of child exploitation material and sentenced Mayne for four months... |
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Gran Paradiso Alpha 5: out in June |
| ...Yet another, fifth, alpha-version of Firefox 3.0, one of the three most popular internet browsers, designated Gran Paradiso, is due out on the first day of summer.
The first alpha-version of Firefox 3.0 was out in December 2006. It was recommended to professional and advanced users, who were able to essentially change the source code of the software.
Mozilla representatives state that the fifth alpha version will featur... |
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Road Hogs: Is it Speed, Size or Life that Matters? |
 ...road deaths in New South Wales, annually causing deaths of over 220 people.
The new campaign is shown on television, in movie-theaters, on bus-stop posters. The campaigners have also introduced an internet ad offering speed-merchants an "xtra xtra small" condom.
RTA spokesperson John Whelan admitted the ads may trigger controversial reactions, still all the campaigners try to do is to get the message through.
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British Invents Anti-Paedophilies Software |
| ...A computer program that is aimed at haunting internet sex offenders, who are chatting under kids mask was released by a British inventor.
The innovative software is able to analyze the user's language patterns in relation to his age. This program is based on the knowledge that adults use more complicated phrases and punctuations when writing in the chartrooms. Even those who try to pretend they are kids cannot dodge t... |
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There Are Successful Bloggers in Africa Too |
| ...An African student from Malawi has become a successful blogger just two weeks after he had seen the internet for the first time. William Kamkwamba got an opportunity to surf the net when he attended a TEDGlobal conference in Arusha, Tanzania, aimed to promote new ideas in the technology, design and entertainment fields. The 19-year-old high-school student was invited to the conference to share his personal experience of d... |
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Crime Story Writer - a Cruel Killer? |
 ...He tried to compare every line with Bala's own CV, having concluded he discovered some striking comparisons. The investigator accused the writer of selling the mobile phone of the murdered man on the internet four days after his death. Bala was also accused of sending the TV programme 997, similar to Crimewatch, emails where he described the murder as 'the perfect crime'.
The writer's ex-wife was called to testify in c... |
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Police Officer on Duty in the Middle of Sex |
 ...ir during the working hours as he was conscientious of his duties.
Massoud Khan, 41 year old man, who works as a police transport inspector, had a "date" with his 43 year old lover, he met on the internet. The encounter took place in a room at the police station at Gatwick Airport as later it was revealed.
The court proved the police officer's encounter didn't interfere with the work as he was wearing an earphone... |
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Web is a Fun Place for Most Users |
 ...A new survey revealed that most users use Internet to search for news and entertainment rather than to make the most of it by searching useful information or sending e-mails, for example.
A research conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings showed that entertainment and social networking sources are the most popular sites on the web, surpassing the use of search engines and online shopping.
According to the findings, the ti... |
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Young hackers are just curious |
 ...ed to cause harm or earn money. Most of teenagers did it to see what will happen and thought of it just as an exciting experience.
Nancy Willard, specialist of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use said that internet has a lot of challenges many teenagers face and their natural motivation is to prove they can do it too. Very often, youngsters who enter online support communities, are tempted to show-off and... |
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