Here’s how serious President Obama is about making jobs the subject on everyone’s lips: His next Town Hall meeting—to discuss job creation, obviously—will be hosted by LinkedIn.
The event will be held on Monday, September 26, and LinkedIn users are invited to visit the site and submit questions for the evening. According to CEO …
Just how important is the internet in your life? If you consider it a fundamental human resource on a level with water, shelter and food, congratulations: You’re not alone. A new Cisco survey has revealed that, across the world, the importance of the internet has grown to genuinely stunning proportions.
The Second Annual Cisco …
As we all know by now, the Internet is a series of tubes. Some of those tubes are actually called submarine communications cables, which, as the name suggests, are giant cables laid on the seabed, carrying telecommunications signals between continents, countries and small islands in between. There are apparently 121 of these systems in …
It’s beginning to look as if Netflix might have pissed off some sort of wizard who cursed the company as a result. The announced split and price rise resulted in an estimated 1,000,000 subscriber drop and an even more worrying stock price freefall. Then there’s Qwikster, the mail-order-DVD business’ new identity that’s come with its own …
If nothing else, you have to feel sorry for poor Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University student who managed to get his $675,000 file-sharing verdict reduced to $67,500… and then watched as an appeals court bumped it back up to its original amount again, reports Ars Technica.
Tenenbaum was ordered to pay $675,000 by a jury after being …
Canadian authorities have had to issue a warning to Internet users concerning fake copyright notices they may receive about pornography they haven’t actually downloaded. Confused? You will be.
Apparently, some Canadian senior citizens have received letters claiming to come from “Artisan International License, Compliance and …
If you’ve been planning to invest in Facebook when it finally goes public, then you might have to wait a little longer than you’d planned. According to anonymous sources talking to Financial Times, Facebook’s IPO might come as many as six months later than the original April 2012 date experts were expecting.
Those sources, credited …
The future of law enforcement is…the future.
Cops in Santa Cruz, CA have started using a mathematical algorithm that predicts when and where crimes will occur, the aim being to have police officers on the scene before anything actually happens. Somewhat surprisingly, five people have been arrested as a result of the program and …
With all the debate over the importance of tax rebates and incentives currently flooding the political world, it’s somewhat surprising to discover that one of the “most highly subsidized business in the United States,” according to a former Treasury Department worker turned tax professor, is also one of the few true success stories in …
Sure, Americans may cumulatively spend 53 billion minutes per month on Facebook, but at least users in the U.S. understand that social media is less important than the ability to, for example, flush away human waste…unlike Facebook addicts in the United Kingdom.
A study, carried out by the London Science Museum, has discovered that …
The Internet really isn’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 …
Yoko Ono is more interested in the lives of strangers than you are.
In fact, you might be able to make the argument that she’s more interested in the lives of strangers than anyone else, as she’s currently following 692,318 people on Twitter (as I type these words), more than any other account on the social media service. The next …
