Malware is Getting Smarter, CA Warns (PC World)

IT management software company CA stated that what the future has in store for internet users is smarter and faster online attacks, created by malware and bots. The thing about these attacks is that they will target everyone, regardless of what function of the internet they are utilizing. Despite the increased amount of these internet [...]

Facebook Extends its’ Abilities

Facebook, the largest social network on the internet, is now creating a new feature.  This feature, Facebook Connect, allows Facebook members to log onto other websites using their Facebook sign-in, and they are able to see their friends’ activities on these other sites.  Last year, Facebook faced controversial advertising issues due to its lack of [...]

Google’s Gatekeepers deciding what is appropriate

By Hannah Ringheim
It was noted that in 2006, Thailand announced it was blocking access to YouTube for anyone with a Thai I.P address.  Then, in March of last year, Google’s “gatekeepers” including Nicole Wong discovered a large drop in activity on YouTube in Turkey because the Turkish government was blocking access to its country’s users.  [...]

CabEasy.com: Save Money and Travel Together

Paige Beaton
When I heard about this website I was both shocked and not surprised at all.  Cabeasy.com allows people to sign in and post where they are trying to travel to by cab, and find other people traveling similar routes at the same time so they can save money and travel together.  While this seems [...]

power.com

Paige Beaton
I recently read an article about a brazilian-based website, power.com. The website allows users to combine all of their social networking sites into one. In a study done recently, 49 million people world wide, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October 2008. Therefore, this site is appealing to those users who [...]

Second Life Affair Ends In Divorce

A British couple who married in a lavish Second Life wedding ceremony are to divorce after one of them had an alleged “affair” in the online world. Amy Taylor, 28, said she had caught husband David Pollard, 40, having sex with an animated woman. The couple, who met in an Internet chatroom in 2003, are [...]

Praying Online

Pretty much everything can be done online nowadays, including doing your daily prayers online. Prayer has now also made itself popular on the internet. Sites such as prayabout.com and ipraytoday.comhave recently joined telephone services that allow anyone to request, for free, that strangers pray for them. People can request for people to pray for family members, friends, [...]

Video Chatting: A Phenomenon

Video chatting has become a bigger phenomenon over the past few years, with new updates in laptops and computers with built in cameras. Something that wasn’t able to be done in the past is now very useful. Video catting, or ichatting, has made it easier for friends to stay in touch, long-distance relationships to work, [...]

Myspace Cyberbullying Case

By Zaid Shuhaibar
I recently came across a New York Times article entitled Guilty Verdict in Cyberbullying Case Provokes Questions Over Online Identity that raises many questions to issues relative to our class discussions. A Missouri woman, Lori Drew, was convicted by a federal jury in Los Angeles on three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud. Lori Drew [...]