The Playful Audience: From Talk Show Viewers to Internet Users (New Media: Policy & Research Issues)
Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Blogoscoped reports that Google has expanded their Public Data Onebox functionality and now you can see the Internet penetration rate for population of any country. All you need to do is search for “internet users in cyprus” (or use your favourite country). Currently, it reports Cyprus having 38% of the population connected to the Internet. [...]
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
It’s official. Firefox is now the most popular web browser in Germany, used by 44.2. percent of internet users, according to the latest W3B study from Fittkau and Maass. In the rest of the world, it’s still quite a different story but in Germany Mozilla should celebrate. The current W3B survey by market research firm Fittkau [...]
Download Squad (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Internet , Microsoft , Browsers August 27, 2001 - Internet Explorer 6 launches. The entire Internet (minus the three Opera users) adopts the new-and-shiny Microsoft browser. In the eight (8) long, soul-destroying years since, users have been mostly oblivious to the pain and misery that Microsoft has brought upon senior Internet architects...
Feministing (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... stories, not even the election of President Obama--would have happened without a free and open Internet. For communities of color, the Internet provides us with a unique opportunity to speak for ourselves without first seeking approval or permission or having to secure major funds to do so. But the big telecommunications companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast want to create an effectively...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... all without a court order and in the name of 'safeguarding Intellectual Property Laws against Internet Piracy'. For this reason some of us have written a manifesto that is being published today all over Spanish weblogs and media." A group of journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators want to express their firm opposition to the inclusion in a Draft Law of some changes to Spanish...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... all without a court order and in the name of 'safeguarding Intellectual Property Laws against Internet Piracy'. For this reason some of us have written a manifesto that is being published today all over Spanish weblogs and media." A group of journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators want to express their firm opposition to the inclusion in a Draft Law of some changes to Spanish...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... stories, not even the election of President Obama -- would have happened without a free and open Internet. For communities of color, the Internet provides us with a unique opportunity to speak for ourselves without first seeking approval or permission or having to secure major funds to do so. But the big telecommunications companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast want to create an...
Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
... from the birth (all news below). While they play with these idiotic plans, a group of Turkish internet users had a creative idea and decided to take to YouTube ban to ECHR. Congratulations! I will try to get news about those users soon. Turkey to face European Court on YouTube ban from FT.com – World, Europe Ankara’s controversial censorship of YouTube, the internet...
Information Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Business leaders have issued a stark warning that the demise of the UN-linked Internet Governance Forum (IGF) could impede the ability of the Internet to drive economic growth and improve societal benefits. The warning was addressed to delegates attending the...
Afro-Netizen (Free subscription) | yesterday
We should not be sacrificing an open Internet to bribe phone and cable companies not to practice forms of red-lining. We need civil rights, media justice, community-oriented and grassroots organizations to stand together to make sure effective Net Neutrality regulation will protect our communities from the predatory practices of the phone and cable industries. As with past civil rights struggles...
Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
The Internet’s “phonebook” is getting a major overhaul. Soon, non-latin characters will be able to direct people to websites. This could be a bad thing for English speaking users, and a godsend to non-English speaking Internet users. Imagine if you needed to learn a foreign language/alphabet to type in a website address? That’s currently...
bharatbook | 30/11/2009
Bharatbook.com added a new report on " Online Gaming - China " covering an industry with strong growth potential. Competitive scenario leading to technological innovations is expected to boost the online gaming market. Online Gaming - China The online gaming market in China has been growing steadily and is estimated to grow dynamically in the future. The large user base coupled with
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
comScore released findings this week from a study of the online habits of Portuguese Internet users. Interestingly, they found that the Portuguese Internet audience grew to nearly 4 Million users in September. Over 3.8 million people age 15 and older accessed the Internet from a home or work location in Portugal in September, viewing an average 1,843...
Security Cadets (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
TechWorld.com reports: A computer worm that China warned Internet users against is an updated version of the Panda Burning Incense virus, which infected millions of PCs in the country three years ago, according to McAfee. The original Panda worm, also known as Fujacks, caused widespread damage at a time when public knowledge about online security was [...]
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
The recently introduced legislation will force internet service providers to become online police, obliging them to provide lists of offenders to copyright owners As expected, the publication of the digital economy bill last Friday caused a stir, not least here at the Guardian . Much of the focus was on the possibility of disconnecting internet users for repeated copyright infringements....
