There are more things connected to the internet than there are people on the planet. Think about that for a second; that’s not just smart devices or computers, it’s everything that’s connected to the internet.
The tipping point came, according to Dave Evans at Cisco, in 2008, and it’ll only keep going.
By 2020, 50 billion “things” …
The fears of a generation have been confirmed, as a new survey reveals that more than 50% of parents use social media as a way of spying on their children—and that even more would do so if they knew how.
The survey of 2,000 British parents, carried out by OnePoll, found that 55% of respondents use social media to track their kids’ …
The second lawsuit over Twitter squatting—someone claiming an identity on Twitter that isn’t actually theirs—is already over, a month after it was originally filed and way before the legal battle really got started.
Life Insurance company Coventry First has dropped its lawsuit against the anonymous user behind @CoventryFirst. But …
Last week, we told you about the Associated Press’ guidelines on social media that, basically, told staff that they couldn’t share their personal opinions online for fear that it might reflect badly on the AP. After outcry online over the issue, the AP has released an updated set of guidelines to allow for more freedom of opinion… …
When President Barack Obama asked Twitter to join him for a virtual town hall meeting by tweeting him questions using the hashtag #AskObama, it’s possible he was expecting a few people to join him. What he got was an impressive 169,395 tweets, and enough new followers that he broke the 9 million barrier for the first time.
Of the …
The British Government doesn’t like people being able to find certain things on the internet. What other conclusion could anyone come to after seeing Google’s transparency report of requests from government agencies to remove content and/or hand over user data for the last half of 2010, when the U.K.’s items requested for removal is …
Citigroup estimates that around 3,400 customers were affected by the online security breach it experienced earlier this year, costing somewhere in the region of $2.7 million when credit card information was stolen by hackers.
This is the first time that Citi is publicly acknowledging any financial losses as a result of the hack, which …
Is the “PROTECT IP” Act—Anti-piracy legislation supported by the Motion Picture Association of America, American Federation of Musicians, Directors Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild, amongst many other bodies within the entertainment industry—good for media but bad for the internet?
A month after the act was passed by the …
When is a retweet not a retweet?
When the original tweet never existed – and if that sounds like common sense, it seems that no-one explained that to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which yesterday created fake retweets from President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, former Governor of Virginia Tim Kaine …
It’s difficult being one of the beautiful people; not only do you have to deal with those less attractive than you in real life, apparently people get upset when you ban them from your beauty-exclusive dating sites for not being attractive enough, too. Life can be so unfair.
The problem for BeautifulPeople.com started when the dating …
Japanese authorities have had enough of spam emails and viruses, and decided that there’s only one way to deal with them: Jail time.
Admittedly, that’s not the only option for those falling foul of the criminalization of computer viruses, nor for the sending of pornographic spam emails; prison can be avoided if you can afford fines of …
It’s the kind of news you can use next time concerned parents bring up the idea that the internet is making people more withdrawn and closed off from the rest of humanity: A new study from the Pew Research Center has found that online social networks actually seem to make people more social.
Pew polled 2,255 Americans during October …
