Internet Use/New Technologies
20 July 2010
Facebook could be social pariah in Asia Reuters
As Facebook gears up for a major push in Asia, the social networking giant may learn that good friends are hard to find as it faces privacy concerns in Japan and Korea and heavy-handed censors in China.
VeriSign: Net bandwidth must grow 1,000 times ZDNet
To deal with the flow of information over the next 10 years, the capacity of the Internet will need to increase by a factor of a thousand, according to VeriSign.
19 July 2010
Digital Drugs: How Teens Are Using The Internet To Get 'High' Huffington Post
With a little help from the internet, young people getting high off of "digital drugs," NewsOK reports.
18 July 2010
New paywall costs the Times 66% of its internet readership The Observer
The Times newspaper's website has lost two-thirds of its audience following the implementation of a paywall, according to data published yesterday - a dramatic decline, but not as steep as many had forecast.
As Facebook Users Die, Ghosts Reach Out New York Times
... Facebook, the world's biggest social network, knows a lot about its roughly 500 million members. Its software is quick to offer helpful nudges about things like imminent birthdays and friends you have not contacted in a while. But the company has had trouble automating the task of figuring out when one of its users has died.
16 July 2010
Internet has 'not become the great leveller’ BBC News
"The internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be," according to Harvard academic Ethan Zuckerman.
15 July 2010
'Democratised web' helps Malaysian's life quality Sydney Morning Herald
Want to buy a house in a safe area or avoid traffic snarls? Malaysians are tackling hot issues like crime and clogged roads with user-generated information that is "democratising" the Web.
Search engine Bing gains market share BBC News
Microsoft's search engine Bing has shown impressive growth in its first year say industry experts.
Facebook snubs British MPs' calls to drop Raoul Moat fan page The Guardian
Facebook said it would resist MPs' calls to remove a page set up in honour of Raoul Moat, the fugitive who shot his former girlfriend, her boyfriend and a police officer before killing himself after he went on the run for a week.
14 July 2010
Internet addiction driving South Koreans into realms of fantasy The Guardian
As dusk descends on the Sinchon neighbourhood of Seoul, a wave of Saturday shoppers melts away, on cue, into restaurants and bars. But in a windowless room several floors above the throng, Ji Yu-tae is steeling himself for a very different night's entertainment.
On Facebook, Telling Teachers How Much They Meant New York Times
People who have been out of school for decades are expressing sentiments they dared not express in their youth.
Enabling our future: experts to advise European Commission on upcoming technologies Europa
Hardly anybody would have forecast 10 years ago that the business world would look as it does today. We use no typewriters any more and most information is available and exchanged electronically. How will the industrial world look in 10 years time? Which products and technologies will we use to produce goods, to do business, to learn, to live and to communicate?
Microsoft Outlook gets Facebook integration BBC News
Microsoft has integrated Facebook into its Outlook e-mail system in its latest move towards the social web.
13 July 2010
German minister calls for Internet 'honour code' Sydney Morning Herald
Germany's consumer minister, who vowed to delete her Facebook account in protest at the networking site's privacy policies, called Monday for an Internet "honour code" to protect personal data.
Social Networking Takes Flight New York Times
On a flight from Newark to the West Coast not long ago, Jeff Jarvis, author of the book "What Would Google Do?" fell into a conversation with a fellow passenger familiar with his work. But it was not a face-to-face chat. Rather, it started as an exchange of Twitter posts at the boarding gate.
12 July 2010
Chinese study says West uses social networking to subvert China Independent on Sunday
Social networking sites like Facebook pose a security threat to China and are used as "tools of subversion" by Western nations including the US, a top Chinese think tank said in a report this week.
Facebook relents on Australian doll nipples ban Sydney Morning Herald
A Sydney jeweller has castigated Facebook for its "opaque" and "arbitrary" moderation system after the site apologised for censoring her images of a nude porcelain doll posing with her works.
Blizzard backs down over gamers using real names BBC News
Following a barrage of criticism, World of Warcraft publisher Blizzard has backed down on the need for gamers to use their real names on its forums.
11 July 2010
David Mitchell: Rupert Murdoch may be evil, but that doesn't mean his paywall is The Observer
Rupert Murdoch is a pretty uncontroversial figure among people I know. Everyone agrees that he's a monstrous arsehole who wants to ruin everything for everyone. Liberals who've reluctantly come round to thinking that Margaret Thatcher might have had a point about the extremes of 1970s trade unionism, that Kim Jong-il just feels excluded from the international community and that Noel Edmonds is actually bloody good at what he does are unswerving in their hatred of the Murdoch empire and everything it stands for. This is the man Dennis Potter named his cancer after and, to most of my friends, that seems about right.
Internet investment's new champions: the emerging online giants The Economist
DST, Naspers and Tencent have made promising internet investments in many emerging markets. Now even Western internet financiers are emulating them
08 July 2010
Amazon launches online groceries division as Ocado gears up for flotation The Guardian
Internet retailer Amazon piled the pressure on Ocado today with the overnight launch of a grocery division selling 22,000 products including brands such as Pampers nappies, Ariel washing powder and Pedigree Chum dog food.
Facebook Makes Headway Around the World New York Times
Sergey Brin, a Google founder, takes issue with people who say Google has failed to gain a foothold in social networking. Google has had successes, he often says, especially with Orkut, the dominant service in Brazil and India.
Wake up, check Facebook: Americans increasingly obsessed Sydney Morning Herald
Americans are increasingly obsessed with Facebook and many young women check their page even before using the bathroom in the morning, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
07 July 2010
Google and Bing search engines turn to music The Independent
Internet search engines pride themselves as being neutral providers of information. But as competition mounts to own the connection between fans and online content, tech behemoths like Microsoft and Google increasingly are turning to their search engines to help drive their entertainment content strategies.
06 July 2010
Britons admit they just can't live without home internet The Guardian
A computer and an internet connection at home are no longer viewed as luxuries but as essentials, according to research published today. The latest Minimum Income Standard report released by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the social research charity, gauges what members of the public think people need to achieve a "socially acceptable standard of living".
