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		<title>Internet Firms Say Syria Goes Offline Again</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/internet-firms-say-syria-goes-offline-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Barbara Ortutay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Syria is experiencing an Internet outage similar to a two-day blackout late last fall, according to companies that monitor online traffic around the world. Jim Cowie, the chief technology officer at Renesys, said his firm saw Syria&#8217;s networks go offline abruptly at 6:25 p.m. UTC (2:25 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday. Google Inc. also indicated that its services were inaccessible in Syria for more than three hours as of 6:00 p.m. EDT. Syrian authorities have cut phone and Internet service in select areas in the past to disrupt rebel communications when regime forces were conducting major operations. Such widespread outages, however, have been rare. Akamai Technologies Inc., which helps companies distribute online content, also confirmed the outage. &#8220;We saw our traffic to that region drop to zero,&#8221; said David Belson, who monitors the traffic at Akamai. Last fall&#8217;s communications blackout also included telephone service, but it was unclear late Tuesday if phone service was also cut off in the civil war-torn country. Belson said there was another, brief outage in early January.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162376&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wi-Fi Donkey Brings New Tech to an Old World</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/21/wi-fi-donkey-brings-new-tech-to-an-old-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia B. Waxman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been called an ass recently for spending too much time on the Internet during a summer vacation?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=143590&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wait, Apparently the Government Did Create the Internet After All</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/26/wait-apparently-the-government-did-create-the-internet-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The experts don't agree with a Wall Street Journal author's stance that the government's role in launching the Internet is an "urban legend."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=140799&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>History</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/reviews-features/history-reviews-features/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>How Government Did (and Didn&#8217;t) Invent the Internet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/25/how-government-did-and-didnt-invent-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Wall Street Journal writer says that the notion the Internet was launched by the federal government is an urban legend. But he's the one who's engaging in fantasy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=140688&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World IPv6 Launch: Only the Biggest Change to the Internet Since Its Inception</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/06/06/world-ipv6-launch-only-the-biggest-change-to-the-internet-since-its-inception/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's only the most significant architectural development in the history of the Internet, and presto, it transpired last night at 00:01 GMT. Did you notice?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=134984&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DNSChanger: FBI Warns Infected Computers Will Lose Web, Email Access in July</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/04/23/dnschanger-fbi-warns-infected-computers-will-lose-web-email-access-in-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a story circulating that if you don&#8217;t ensure your computer is malware-free by July 9, 2012, the FBI will shut off your access to the Internet. Like most such alarmist claims, it&#8217;s only partly true, though if you&#8217;re a Windows or Mac user, you&#8217;ll want to pay attention. The original story dates back to 2007, when a group of cyber-ne&#8217;er-do-wells launched malware dubbed &#8220;DNSChanger,&#8221; infecting millions of computers in hundreds of countries with code that allowed them to manipulate the way Internet ads appear in browsers, ultimately racking up millions in illicit fees. (MORE: FBI, Estonian Police Shut Down $14 Million Botnet Scam) How did the malware work? DNSChanger targets Windows or Mac systems (Linux, iOS and Android users are in the clear) by manipulating Domain Name Servers (DNS), which translate syntax-based URLs into IP addresses. When you type something like &#8220;www.yahoo.com&#8221; into your browser, for instance, your request hits your Internet service provider&#8217;s DNS server, which translates it into a numeric IP address. If you plug that IP address into your browser&#8217;s URL bar in lieu of the web address, barring any IP tricks, you&#8217;ll land on the exact same web page. The Internet&#8217;s underlying architecture is based on TCP/IP, in other words, not the more easily remembered words we type into our browsers. DNSChanger fiddles with that DNS routing: Once a computer was infected, the malware redirected DNS-related requests to servers controlled by the fraud ring, which then piped web ads to users, ultimately putting millions of dollars in the cybercriminals&#8217; pockets. Working with Estonian officials, the FBI was able to track down the perps &#8212; six Estonian nationals were arrested for the crime last November &#8212; and seize their servers. But given the number of computers estimated infected, the FBI opted to leave the servers running, ad-neutralized, to avoid disrupting Internet functionality for those unaware their computers were compromised. And to give users more time to purge, the FBI secured a court order on March 12, 2012 that authorized the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) &#8212; a nonprofit corporation that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=129334&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remove Jimmy Wales&#8217; Face from Wikipedia in Three Easy Steps</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/22/remove-jimmy-wales-face-from-wikipedia-in-three-easy-steps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might be sick of seeing Jimmy Wales' face by now, especially because the alignment of the image on the page can lead to some unfortunate misunderstandings. Fortunately, Taylor Buley has developed a simple way to hide Wales' mug forever, in three easy steps.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=107391&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the Internet Evolves to Overcome Censorship</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/21/how-the-internet-evolves-to-overcome-censorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Congress mulls an Internet blacklist, there are efforts underway to reengineer parts of the Net to make communications more decentralized and censorship-proof.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=105902&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blockbuster Movie Pass Test Drive: Some Flash, Little Substance</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/08/blockbuster-movie-pass-test-drive-some-flash-little-substance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when Dish Network&#8217;s Blockbuster Movie Pass was first announced, there was one obvious problem with the idea that it was a true competitor to Netflix: It was only available to Dish Network customers. Now that I&#8217;ve had a chance to test out the online streaming portion of the Movie Pass package for myself, another problem seems just as obvious: The poor selection of what&#8217;s available to stream. (MORE: Netflix: Who Could Take the Streaming Video Crown?) If you can imagine a version of Netflix&#8217;s Watch Instantly that pretty much only has content from Starz and little else—to be fair, the Blockbuster Movie Pass also offers some content from Epix, Sundance and other smaller vendors as well, but I suspect that titles like SOS Iceberg and Terror on Tour aren&#8217;t exactly what people are looking for—then you have a pretty good idea of what you&#8217;d be able to stream through Blockbuster Movie Pass right now. It&#8217;s a shame, because there are things that make it competitive with Netflix&#8217;s Watch Instantly offering otherwise. At least upon my first investigations, Movie Pass seemed faster to load than Netflix and offered a higher quality image, although that may simply be down to the fact that it has nowhere near the traffic that Netflix has to deal with. I missed the ability to close the browser and return to a movie later from the same point I&#8217;d left it—something that was surprisingly absent, I must admit—but there really is something to be said for not waiting for buffering, loading or streams cutting out mid-show. (One day, let me bore you about the frustrations of trying to watch the final episode of Friday Night Lights, only for it to fail to play past the fifteen minute mark for three days straight. Actually, maybe don&#8217;t). In terms of ease of use, the interface is both easy to use and somewhat frustrating. Inexplicably, there&#8217;s no search function, meaning that you have to choose movies or shows via drop-down menu or work through all the movies page-by-page on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102178&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/the-internet-weighs-about-as-much-as-a-strawberry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the world was shocked—shocked!—to discover that downloading an electronic book to a device such as a Kindle actually increases the weight of the Kindle. Not by any truly measurable amount, said the New York Times, but still: adding data to a device apparently results in trapped electrons which &#8220;have a higher energy than the untrapped ones.&#8221; And though the amount of data contained in a tiny e-book file is so miniscule as to render it almost irrelevant, the results become more meaningful when you measure a much larger set of data. In that spirit, how much does all the information on the entire internet weigh? The conclusion: about as much as a strawberry. Check out the above video for the explanation, which includes details about the Kindle stuff, too. How Much Does The Internet Weigh? [YouTube via Buzzfeed]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101652&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and Cons of the Internet (as Taught to Students in 1996)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/31/pros-and-cons-of-the-internet-as-taught-to-students-in-1996/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I was at my parents’ house in Connecticut for a family matter. As my sister went through some of the things in her childhood bedroom, she discovered a document from 1996, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet. This was apparently part of some high school handout packet; also included among the papers were tips on using Altavista and print outs of the Yahoo home page as viewed in Netscape. Since we’re fans of tech nostalgia here, I thought I’d share the document with you. Surprisingly, many of the Internet’s perks and problems remain the same 15 years later, but some of them just seem silly in retrospect. (MORE: Let&#8217;s Go Retro: Best Computer Games from the &#8217;80s) Click on the image to view an enlarged version. Some thoughts: Although the Internet is quite different now from what it was in 1996, its advantages–communicating with anyone around the world, consuming all kinds of content and getting information quickly–haven’t fundamentally changed. No one uses chat rooms anymore, though. The rise of reputable sources on the Internet, combined with a more savvy user base, means reliability of information isn’t a huge issue today. Of course, you can’t believe everything you read, but that was true even before the Internet. I suppose there are still “MANY” dead links on the Internet. But I rarely notice. The paper seems optimistic that some day, the Internet will be secure. Hasn’t happened yet. And with users putting more information about themselves on the Internet than ever before, security is arguably a bigger issue than it was 15 years ago. One hack is all it takes for your personal details to get out. The Internet is more organized today, but information overload remains, thanks to countless blogs and endless social network streams–none of which existed 15 years ago. The idea that spending “hours” on the Internet was once classified as addiction now seems hilarious to me. (Thanks, Heather.) MORE: Weekend Download: Grab 900 Gigabytes of GeoCities Sites This article originally appeared on Technologizer&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101343&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Forces 40+ Child Pornography Sites Offline</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/24/anonymous-takes-down-40-child-pornography-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anonymous has turned its attentions from corporations to pedophiles with the news that the hacktivist group has taken down multiple child pornography sites, including one of the largest known, with account details of its 1589 users being posted online as evidence. The incident was just part of something Anonymous is calling &#8220;Operation Darknet,&#8221; a move by the group to eliminate child pornography on the Tor network. Tor, which was originally developed as a way of protecting government communications by the U.S. Navy, now describes itself as &#8220;a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.&#8221; But the privacy and anonymity it offers has been abused by child pornographers, something that Anonymous aims to correct with its new campaign. (MORE: Anonymous &#8211; People Who Mattered in 2011) In its statement about the takedown, Anonymous says that the group &#8220;identified [hosting service] Freedom Hosting as the host of the largest collection of child pornography on the internet,&#8221; adding &#8220;By taking down Freedom Hosting, we are eliminating 40+ child pornography websites, among these is Lolita City, one of the largest child pornography websites to date containing more than 100GB of child pornography. We will continue to not only crash Freedom Hosting&#8217;s server, but any other server we find to contain, promote, or support child pornography.&#8221; The group&#8217;s statement ends with the following demands: &#8220;Remove all child pornography content from your servers. Refuse to provide hosting services to any website dealing with child pornography. This statement is not just aimed at Freedom Hosting, but everyone on the internet. It does not matter who you are, if we find you to be hosting, promoting, or supporting child pornography, you will become a target.&#8221; (MORE: The 10 Most Dangerous Celebrities on the Internet) Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100727&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.K. ISPs Deny Automatic &#8216;Parental Control&#8217; Rumors</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/11/u-k-isps-deny-automatic-parental-control-rumors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite rumors to the contrary, British internet service providers would like it to be known that customers will have as much access to pornography as they&#8217;ve always enjoyed. The four largest British ISPs—British Telecom, TalkTalk, Virgin and Sky—have been forced to clarify that porn-blocking parental controls will not be set as default for users nationwide after rumors started to emerge that U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron was to announce a &#8220;filtered feed&#8221; system in response to calls to shield children from sexualized imagery. The rumors, which peaked before today&#8217;s announcement, suggested that users wishing to access porn or other adult material would have to &#8220;opt in&#8221; for a non-filtered internet. (MORE: U.K. Government Won&#8217;t Ban Social Media in Emergencies) In a joint statement, the ISPs said that they are &#8220;pleased to have developed and agreed to a code of practice, including measures to ensure that customers are provided with an active choice as to whether to activate parental controls in the home,&#8221; adding that they &#8220;have committed to improve the way they communicate to customers, enabling parents to make simple and well-informed choices about installing and activating parental controls and other measures to protect children online.&#8221; In practice, sources say, what this means is that new contracts will be offered in two flavors: One with parental controls, and one without. &#8220;Customers will have to choose one or the other, but we won&#8217;t be making either one the default,&#8221; said an anonymous source within one of the ISPs. In addition, two of the ISPs—BT and TalkTalk—will implement a system called HomeSafe that will record every website the user visits, and check each one for viruses, even if users haven&#8217;t signed up for the parental control option. MORE: Amazon Sure Is Selling a Lot of Weird Stuff in the U.K. Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99564&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Touch: 3G Minus Most of the Internet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/04/amazons-kindle-touch-3g-minus-most-of-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well there went the Kindle Touch 3G&#8217;s appeal straight out the window: Amazon now admits that while its upcoming touch-based Kindle will indeed be 3G-enabled, the places it&#8217;ll be allowed to visit along the information superhighway are actually not so super. Where can the Kindle Touch go? Try the Kindle Store, no surprise, and—wait for it—Wikipedia, that fount of immaculate, always-reliable and scholarly information, and encyclopedic repository for whoever your favorite celebrities are dating. (MORE: Amazon Unveils $199 &#8216;Kindle Fire&#8217; Android Tablet, $99 &#8216;Kindle Touch&#8217;) Amazon unveiled two Kindle Touch models last Wednesday: a $99 Wi-Fi model and a $149 3G alternative. That&#8217;s right, for $50 or 33% more, you can have significantly slower &#8220;anywhere&#8221; access to a fraction of a fraction (of a fraction—keep repeating silently until you&#8217;ve not quite infinitely regressed) of the Internet. Chalk it up to browsing&#8217;s &#8220;experimental&#8221; status on the Kindle platform (the Android-based Kindle Fire notwithstanding). Amazon advertises the Kindle Touch 3G with &#8220;free 3G wireless,&#8221; noting you can &#8220;download books anywhere&#8221; and that it &#8220;works globally.&#8221; There&#8217;s also a note about &#8220;free cloud backup.&#8221; But—perhaps misleadingly—the company neglects to mention you&#8217;ll be limited to synchronizing books, and fails altogether to mention the Wikipedia restriction. All Amazon says is that while browsing books using its new X-Ray feature, you&#8217;ll have access to &#8220;more detailed descriptions from Wikipedia and Shelfari, Amazon’s community-powered encyclopedia for book lovers.&#8221; Why put these devices on Internet training wheels? Probably because the company expects to sell boatloads when they launch on November 21, and $50 markup or no, they&#8217;re not prepared to subsidize all the extra web traffic they&#8217;d have to handle if they opened the floodgates. That&#8217;s the safe bet anyway. Amazon&#8217;s sort-of-kind-of official acknowledgement of the browsing limitation? Here&#8217;s what the company wrote a few days ago in response to customer questions about 3G access: We apologize for the confusion. Our new Kindle Touch 3G enables you to connect to the Kindle Store, download books and periodicals, and access Wikipedia &#8211; all over 3G or Wi-Fi. Experimental web browsing (outside of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98827&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Services, Not Pricing, Is Why the Kindle Fire Is Disruptive</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/30/amazon-services-not-pricing-is-why-the-kindle-fire-is-disruptive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley. As is to be expected, many in the media are commenting on the extremely aggressive pricing of the Kindle Fire as the most disruptive element of the product. I, however, beg to differ. I make this point often: Price is important, but it isn&#8217;t everything. Imagine for one second that the Kindle Fire was released as is at $199 but didn&#8217;t have the Amazon services like books, movies, music, and e-commerce. I would argue that without these services, even at $199, the product would fail. Without Amazon&#8217;s services, it would be just another 7-inch tablet. It is because the Kindle Fire is tied to Amazon&#8217;s excellent services ecosystem that the Fire is even remotely interesting. Amazon has brought something to the tablet space that is fresh and different. (MORE: Can Devices like the Kindle Fire Finally Pave the Way for a la Carte Cable?) They have identified what many other tablet manufactures have not: namely that Android by itself tied to Google&#8217;s services in a tablet form factor is not what the mass market wants. More importantly, Amazon brings a wealth of digital content that is easily accessible and consumed as a part of their solution. These things combined with a custom-designed version of Android is what separates the Kindle Fire from the sea of sameness that is Android tablets. For that reason alone I give it a good chance at succeeding. The Kindle Fire Is Not an iPad Killer Despite what the media and other pundits are saying or compelled to say, any smart market strategist will tell you that the Fire is no iPad competitor. It is targeting a different consumer than the iPad. Amazon was smart and is focusing on their strengths, instead of trying to be something they are not(which is Apple). Other companies have simply been trying to copy the iPad—and to no avail, as most, if not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98606&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Local Internet Is&#8230;Edible?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/28/the-future-of-local-internet-is-edible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hyperlocal&#8221; has been a buzzword for quite some time, based around the idea that the Internet should be talking to you about your neighborhood in particular, and not just some homogenous &#8220;out there.&#8221; But according to a new Pew Institute study, there&#8217;s one thing in particular users want from their hyperlocal surfing: food. While television still dominates in the local news space, with newspapers taking the top spot for sourcing community events, as well as information on local culture, government and police actions, the Internet has become the top source for information about restaurants and bars for the majority of Americans. Clearly, Yelp has done its job well. (MORE: Study: 28% of U.S. Adults Use Phones for Directions) According to the survey results, although the Internet only tops one particular vertical, it&#8217;s seemingly become the go-to second choice for local information. For the 79% of Americans who are online, the Internet was named as either the first or second most relied-upon source of information for 15 of the 16 topics listed (for adults under 40, it jumps to first place in 11 of those 16 topics), with 64% of those asked admitting that they use at least three different types of media to get information about their community in general. The takeaway from this survey for local businesses? Advertise everywhere. But if you serve food, make sure that your social media is so spotless, you could eat your dinner off it. MORE: Study: The Internet Helps You Make More Friends, Be More Social Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98397&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 10 Most Dangerous Celebrities on the Internet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/15/the-10-most-dangerous-celebrities-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stand back! They&#8217;ve got mass appeal! Beware the allure of the common celebrity, ladies and gentlemen. The sheer volume of internet searches turns up some real web trickery: sites chock full of viruses, spyware and other nefarious unmentionables. The fine folks at security firm McAfee have compiled a list of the 10 most dangerous celebrities on the internet, with searches for the top celebrity comprising an almost 10% chance of running into something awful. Check out the list and tread lightly, my friends.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97235&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Much of the Internet Is Porn? Less than You&#8217;d Expect</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/13/how-much-of-the-internet-is-porn-less-than-youd-expect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet really isn&#8217;t as pornography-filled as you might think. In fact, according to one expert, only 42,337 of the one million most-trafficked websites online are offering sex-related content, which translates into somewhere around 4% of sites on the Internet. That surprising figure—am I the only person who expected it to be much higher?—comes from neuroscientist Ogi Ogas who, along with his partner Sai Gaddam, collected porn statistics as research for his book A Billion Wicked Thoughts. He went on to say that 13% of all web searches between July 2009 and July 2010 were for &#8220;erotic content,&#8221; down from an estimated 40-50% ten years earlier. So has the Internet just become more family-friendly as it grows older? (MORE: The .XXX Porn Domains Have Landed) Ogas isn&#8217;t convinced; he thinks that what may have happened instead, is that hard fact has replaced fearmongering and rumor: There have been a bunch of false and ultimately mythic stats floating around for years that say half the Internet is porn or one third of the Internet is porn, though this has never been remotely true&#8230; Web filtering companies used to always release competing figures on the number of porn sites they blocked, but these numbers were almost certainly boosted to get sensationalist headlines  and to seem competitive with other filtering companies that filtered “less” adult sites. For example, N2H2 claimed there were 260 million porn sites–haha, one for every American citizen! :) Conservative groups are always coming up with porn figures that are crazy high, too, especially with regard to children’s exposure to porn. Perhaps the most surprising piece of information Ogas shares about Internet porn, however, may be that people still pay for pornography online. In fact, that may be more true depending on where you live. According to Ogas, &#8220;I’ve heard from different adult operators that the Republican states have higher per-capita subscription rates. Meaning they’re more likely to pay money—they don’t know about free porn viewing.&#8221; I eagerly look forward to the next Republican Presidential Nominee Debate featuring candidates boasting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Americans Spend over 53 Billion Minutes per Month on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/13/americans-spend-53-billion-minutes-a-month-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=96744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So that’s exactly how much time I spend on Facebook per day at work? Kidding. Cumulatively, Americans spend more time on Facebook than on any other website. In the month of May alone, Nielsen estimates that the whole population spent a total of 53.5 billion minutes on the social network. That’s also about the equivalent of 100,000 years, or 36.8 million days. (MORE: Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies) Before you freak out about turning into a veggie, keep in mind that this is a cumulative number based on the activity of some 150 million Facebook users. That means each user spends about 350 minutes a month on the site, or about 10 minutes per day. The second site after Facebook was Yahoo at 17.2 billion minutes. Google followed in third, at 12.5 billion minutes. Maybe it’s time for an Internet detox? MORE: Facebook Tops One Trillion Hits Per Month, Wins Internet [via SF Gate and Gizmodo] Erica Ho is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96744&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google, OpenDNS Make the Internet Faster, Starting Today</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/30/google-opendns-make-the-internet-faster-starting-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does the Internet feel any different today? A little less sluggish, perhaps? Admittedly, you may think that the net is pretty zippy as is, but that&#8217;s entirely dependent on the location of your domain name server at any given browsing time—something a new partnership of multiple companies called the Global Internet Speedup Initiative is planning to change. The Initiative—which includes Google, Verisign, OpenDNS and content delivery networks like CD Networks, Comodo and BitGravity amongst its members—aims to increase the speed of the Internet by changing the way traffic is routed around what used to be called the World Wide Web. (MORE: Infographic: Which States Have the Best (and Worst) Internet Speeds?) As the Initiative&#8217;s website explains: DNS is like the phone book for the Internet. It converts human readable domains (www.opendns.com) to an IP address (208.69.38.160) that your computer can connect to. But what happens when you look up a business in the phone book and there are 50 locations? You probably want the location closest to you. When trying to reach a website that exists in 50 locations around the world, you would want the same thing to happen. You want to be sent to the closest, fastest or least congested location automatically. Until now, figuring out which location is closest to you was not possible with DNS alone. Today, if you’re using OpenDNS or Google Public DNS and visiting a website or using a service provided by one of the participating networks or CDNs in the Global Internet Speedup then a truncated version of your IP address will be added into the DNS request. The Internet service or CDN will use this truncated IP address to make a more informed decision in how it responds so that you can be connected to the most optimal server. With this more intelligent routing, customers will have a better Internet experience with lower latency and faster speeds. According to David Ulevitch, chief executive of OpenDNS, one of the movers and shakers in the partnership, &#8220;Starting today, tens of millions of internet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95377&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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