The Pew research center put out survey results today on broadband adoption and Internet use in America. There was one data point that I found startling. According to the survey, 21 percent of American adults say they don’t use the Internet. One fifth of all Americans.
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Last month a large private BitTorrent tracker became the first site of its type to be hit by Hurt Locker-style mass litigation. Now, just three weeks later, the same studio has returned there for a second time, gathering IP addresses on the site and filing suit against dozens of users a mere three days after.
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Google introduced extension support in Chrome late last year along with the launch of the extensions online gallery. One of the biggest things holding users from switching from Firefox to Chrome was and still is add-ons support. Now, more than six months after the Chrome extensions gallery was revealed, let’s check in to see how Google’s move has fared.
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Right on the heels of the news that iPhone jailbreaking is now legal, the infamous iPhone Dev Team has released an easy-peasy jailbreak for the iPhone 4. It's called JailbreakMe, and it works right from your iPhone's browser. The landing page for JailbreakMe reminds you that iPhone jailbreaking is now legal, and also fully reversible by plugging in your device and hitting Restore in iTunes.
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TorrentReactor, listed among the five most popular torrent sites on the Internet, has surprised friends and foes by acquiring a small town in central Russia. The town formerly known as Gar has reportedly been bought for the equivalent of $148,000 and was quickly renamed after the Russian-based torrent site.
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Quora, the real-time question and answer service started by two former Facebook employees, will start being indexed by search engines tomorrow, a week after Facebook rolled out the first version of the similar service Facebook Questions.
It has been revealed that Facebook has acquired 18 key patents and patent applications on social networking owned by Friendster, the pioneering social network. Friendster had been acquired by MOL Global, a Malaysian company.
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Microsoft developers planned "industry-leading" privacy features in Internet Explorer 8 that would have automatically blocked third-party tracking tools like beacons, but one feature was scaled back and another was dropped because they went against the interests of advertisers, the Wall Street Journal reported in its seven-part feature on Internet privacy today.
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The sharing and tracking of torrents through Twitter just got a little easier with today’s release of BitTorrent’s Torrent Tweet, an app that you can add to torrent client uTorrent in order to organize the discussions surrounding individual torrents on Twitter. Through Torrent Tweet, tweets are published with an automatically generated hashtag unique to each torrent file, like this one.
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Google Wave, the revolutionary product, platform and protocol for distributed, real time, app-augmented collaboration will no longer be actively developed and may be shuttered after the end of the year, Google announced this afternoon.
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In its latest move targeting small to medium-sized businesses, Google launched a new blog yesterday called the Google Small Business Blog, which promises to offer tips and tools for SMB's.
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The Wall Street Journal today reports that in Saudi Arabia, the government division responsible for telecom oversight has reached a preliminary agreement with BlackBerry maker RIM, based in Canada, over the matter of government access to BlackBerry messaging data.
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Toilets weren't the only thing on Bill Gates' mind at yesterday's Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe—the former Microsoft CEO also offered his vision of the future of education. The next great educational institution, he thinks, is the Internet.
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Pam Bondi, Trump’s biggest cheerleader, seems to be withholding the promised Epstein files. When asked about them recently, she seemed nervous and
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