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Mobile Apps That Deliver Holiday Cheer
Internet News Remember when you wanted the latest HotWheel set for Christmas? How about those times years ago when a new bike was the number one thing on your wish list? Now, don’t be surprised if the people you’re getting those Christmas gifts for want some items from the app store. Developers are responding to the phenomenal demand for these articles by coming out with a new barrage of Christmas apps the way the industry used to dump toy trains, ...
Continue readingMobile Holiday Shoppers? Hardly A Surprise
Internet News Reports are saying that holiday shopping is going mobile this season and although it’s way too early to tell, there’s some buzz that all those mobile applications might be at least part of the solution to what’s ailing the troubled economy. Acuity Group who studies such things is saying now that 2011 is the year where mobile shopping is really taking off and their numbers support the facts. Consider… a National Retail Federation survey ...
Continue readingAccess Bollywood/ SOPA Warning
Internet News UbiSlate is a new Android based tablet that’s due to be released in weeks and the developers are Canadian. In a world where economies are crumbling on both sides of the Atlantic, it’s becoming more clear everyday that those denizens of beautiful lakes and hockey rinks are leaders in the new economy, both in IT and other places. The idea behind this latest invention is all about hooking the world up to the web in a cheap way and getting ...
Continue readingThe internet doesn’t make terrorists/China worried about false information.
Blogging A new report has found the Internet doesn’t play a significant role in radicalizing people and pointing them toward terrorists groups like al Qaida. That’s good news for sure and the report goes on to say although the web is considered an excellent way to spread information, it lacks the ability to foster intimacy between people. The report comes from the Home Office in the UK. That name alone strikes an Orwellian chord, doesn’t it? Eric ...
Continue readingInternet addiction ‘Tsunami’ on the way
Blogging A British report is saying that most of the 1000 people who tried to quit the Internet recently as part of a study found it as hard as giving up drinking or smoking. Forty percent of those polled said that they felt lonely without the web in their lives Laurie Tamblyn is an addictions counsellor in special programs at Toronto’s Bellwood Health Services. She was recently quoted talking about the different types of Internet addictions there ...
Continue readingWikileaks Forced To Suspend Publishing
Blogging Here’s some ominous news that might have otherwise slipped under the waves in the big ocean of information we get everyday. Julian Assange announced recently that Wikileaks was suspending publishing to raise funds. Not really all that sinister in itself, right? Not until you consider the fact that the money dried up after some big American companies like PayPal and Mastercard implemented a financial blockade when Wikileaks published documents ...
Continue readingGoogle might have place in a Yahoo takeover bid, Syria cracking down with US technology
Internet News Worried about monopolies? Here’s one of the bigger ones in the making that you might want to mull over a bit. A recent report in the Wall Street Journal is saying that Google might have a part to play in an emerging takeover bid for Yahoo. Still, it’s important to keep in mind that sources were not named although the report is pretty specific about the facts that at least two companies have talked with Google about getting some assistance in ...
Continue readingBad Content Finding Its Way Into Mobile Apps and RIM Owes Big
Internet News There’s always a good side to things and a bad side and that includes the ever-expanding world of mobile apps. A recent news article in the Washington Post talks about inappropriate content finding its way into mobile apps that are geared towards children. Violent and suggestive content are the culprits here and parents are complaining they don’t have any real way to monitor what their kids are exposed to. The Federal Communications ...
Continue readingMobile Downloads Forecast To Reach 98 Billion but Websites Still Sell Stuff
Internet News There are people who are unimpressed by what they think are the never ending stream of fads on the Internet. People who follow will remember how video was poised to take over and make content obsolete. Those folks scoffed, and rightfully so, when people said content on websites was going to be replaced by downloads from You Tube. Then there was social media. Facebook and Twitter were going to change the face of Internet marketing but as ...
Continue readingChina Cracking Down…Again
Blogging Here’s one from the ‘you can’t have it both ways’ file. China is cracking down on the Internet and specifically online forums that have become platforms for criticism. Criticism of the communist government is a big ‘no no’ there, but at the same time they seem to enjoy the benefits of all the western capitalism that has been transplanted. Sure the Chinese government has come out and said that ‘Internet rumors are malignant tumors ...
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