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The U.S. Government Gets Real The U.S. government has a new service that provides citizens with real-time updates and alerts. From the new USA.gov website, users can customize the types of alerts they wish to receive by selecting from 6,2000 different topics and 144 federal agencies. Whenever new information is published users will receive instant 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 →

Be Careful What You Email President Obama A U.K. teenager is banned from visiting the U.S. after sending an email to the White House. Luke Angel became enraged after watching a documentary about 9/11, leading him to send the hostile email in which he called President Obama a “prick.” The FBI contacted British police who 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 →

Apple Loosens Up On App Development Apple has decided to relax its restrictions on the development tools used to make apps. Developers can now use third-party tools, like Adobe’s software to convert Flash apps into native iPhone apps, which was previously banned by Apple.  Additionally, Apple will publish it’s guidelines for evaluating an app for 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 →

“Don’t Be Evil” –The Movie First a film about Facebook, and now a film about Google. Groundswell Productions has acquired the film rights to Ken Auletta’s book: “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.”  The story takes a look at how Google’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, started the company and Continue Reading →

Man Goes to Jail After Sending Friend Request on Facebook A Florida man was sent to jail after sending a friend request on Facebook. Harry Bruder violated a restraining order filed by his estranged wife, Carole, after attempting to contact her twice on Facebook. Mr. Bruder didn’t think that social networking constituted as “contact,” which Continue Reading →

This week on Digital Life: What happens to your Twitter profile when you die? Are smudges on your touch screen clues that hackers can use? Do iPhone users really have more sex partners? Should the government be in charge of the Internet? Plus, I’ll talk with Henry Juszkiewicz, CEO of the legendary Gibson Guitar Company Continue Reading →

iPhone Users Have More Sex According to a new study from the dating site OKCupid, iPhone owners have more sex than BlackBerry and Android users. The results showed that women who use an iPhone have twice as many sexual partners as their Android counterparts. OKCupid surveyed nearly 10,000 smartphone users for their analysis. Winning Streak Continue Reading →