Twitter is one of the most popular social marketing and micro-blogging services on the Net, but despite its ever-growing popularity, significant security features still aren’t up to par. This past January, 33 high profile Twitter accounts were hacked. Targets included CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez, Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Digg founder Kevin Rose, CBS News and [...]
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In 1995, only one hate website existed on the Net. Now, according to a report by the Wiesenthal Center’s Digital Hate and Terrorism Project, there are over 10,000 websites, social networking groups, portals, blogs, chat rooms, videos and hate games, that promote racial violence, anti-Semitism, homophobia, hate music and terrorism. [Source].
In many parts [...]
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Like most things, the Internet has its good and its dark side. And, considering the pervasiveness of the Internet in society, it is certainly having an effect on our brains. After all, everything we do affects our brain. Though up until the 1980’s, it was universally believed that the steam engine was the foremost invention [...]
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Though it certainly must be a tough job dominating the computer industry, Microsoft gets a lot of slack when it messes up. Over the years, Microsoft has encountered some tricky obstacles that they haven’t always been able to overcome. Bugs in the operating system, bugs in application software; viruses, worms, Spyware, trouble with hardware and [...]
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Most longtime FireFox users will agree that FireFox add-ons completely change your experience on the web. They generally make life easier for you and increase your productivity. Here is a list of must-have add-ons for the average internet user.
Download Status Bar
The Download Status bar makes it easy to manage and view your downloads by displaying [...]
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Some said it wouldn’t last, that it would never be able to sustain the amount of users; that eventually, it would crash. But despite doubt and scepticism, the Internet has changed the world as we know it; the way we communicate, find and share information, do business and proven- it is very much here to [...]
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Customer Relationship Management, it’s that time again. No, seriously, we’re talking CRM. Fortunately, we’re not going to bore you with any old regular CRM product, but a full-blown Enterprise Edition called Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
From the ground up, Dynamics CRM 4.0 is designed to be a fully customizable and extendable solution to your business [...]
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Do we still care whether aliens exist or not? According to 5.2 million earthlings in over 200 countries around the planet, we do. This number represents the number of people who have participated in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, more famously known as the SETI@home project. Since its launch on May 17, 1999, the Space [...]
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Early P2P networking
Though the Internet may seem like a relatively new concept, the idea of a computer network that would allow communication between a wide scope of users from various computers was formulated in 1962 in a series of memos by J.C.R. Licklider discussing ‘Intergalactic Computer Network’. These ideas contained almost everything that the [...]
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We’d all seen the bomb - a fiery mushroomed column of mortality, destructive power that could kill the dead. Awe and hysteria born from the ashes of the Second World War led to the Cold War, and in turn a need to protect messaging and communication in case such a nuke ever hit home. Indeed, [...]
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