Teen Accidentally Invites 21K People To Her Home A teenager in England intended to invite only a few close friends to her 15th Birthday party, but ended up with 21,000 Facebook RSVPs, the vast majority complete strangers. Rebecca Javenleau published both her home address and phone number on the invitation, but made the mistake of Continue Reading →
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Increased Computer Usage Not Bad For Kids Kids do not suffer academically from spending more time on the computer, according to a study from the University of Maryland. The study followed 1,000 children over six years and found that there was not a significant correlation between academic performance and test scores. However, the study ended Continue Reading →
Children’s Sites Drop More “Cookies” Children’s websites install more tracking devices onto personal computers than adult websites, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. The investigation into online privacy looked at the 50 most popular websites for children and the 50 most popular sites for adults. Overall, 4,123 tracking tools came from children’s Continue Reading →
People Believe It’s Better To Be Online During Sex More people believe it’s acceptable to be online during sex with a partner than to be online at a wedding, according to a new study from PC Tools. The study was designed to see just how addicted people are to being online. An interesting note, men Continue Reading →
Facebook The Biggest Time Suck People spend more time on Facebook than any other site on the web. Facebook beat both Google and Yahoo for time spent on a single site. According to comScore, U.S. web users spent 41.1 million minutes on Facebook in August, which accounts for 9.9 percent of a user’s total time Continue Reading →
Majority of Internet Users Are Victims of Cybercrime Two-thirds of Internet users globally and three-fourths of U.S. Internet users are victims of online crime according to a new study from Norton. Viruses and malware are the most common sources of an attack. On average it takes 28 days to resolve a cybercrime and costs $334 Continue Reading →
Google Music Store? Rumor has it that Google will be launching a music download service by Christmas. It’s expected that the music store will be a cloud-based subscription service and will be heavily integrated with Google’s Android mobile operating system. Watch out iTunes! Adult Services Censored on Craigslist Craigslist has blocked access to its “adult Continue Reading →
New and Much Improved Apple TV Steve Jobs unveiled a new version of Apple TV at the Apple press event on Wednesday. The new device is smaller than it’s predecessor and will only deliver rentals, including 99-cent TV shows from News Corp. and the Walt Disney Co. The device also connects with Netflix and online Continue Reading →
Google Makes Mail a Priority Google unveiled a new feature for Gmail called Priority Inbox, to help combat e-mail overload. Priority Inbox organizes emails and puts them into one of three categories: “Important and Unread,” “Starred” and “Everything Else.” The new feature also places a higher priority on messages received from contacts that a user Continue Reading →
People Don’t Want to Share their Location Location-based apps are all the rage, but most people still don’t want to share their location. According to Forrester Research, only 4-percent of Americans have tried location-based technology and only 1-percent use them on a weekly basis. Will Facebook’s Places lead to a faster adoption rate of location-based Continue Reading →