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Tweet-friendly media can now be shared by musicians.
As South by Southwest transforms from a massive tech party to a massive music festival, Twitter has unveiled Twitter for Musicians and Artists, a page offering tips on how musicians can use the service to connect with their fans.
Even if you’re not a world-famous musician, many of the [...]
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The Chinese government is not shy about its Internet censorship, even launching an official campaign known as the Golden Shield Project, or “Great Firewall.”
Most people in the world who get into trouble on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites fail to exercise a bit of healthy self-censorship. A [...]
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83% of people who use search engines in the U.S. prefer Google.
Despite privacy concerns, Google still reigns supreme as the go-to search engine, even if people are bit nervous about how it collects data and targets ads.
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294 billion emails are sent everyday.
Our everyday lives increasingly revolve around blog posts, emails, and status updates. MBA Online has provided a snapshot of what happens in one day on the Internet. Take a look at the startling numbers below:
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Is you plant smiling or dying?
If you’ve been using Koubachi’s iOS app to remember when it’s time to water your plants, the company’s new wireless sensor will give your greenery an even better fighting chance of survival if you’re lacking a green thumb.
Whereas the app used your location, the local soil conditions, and the type [...]
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Firefox is the world’s second most popular web browser after Internet Explorer.
The maker of Firefox, Mozilla, has unveiled a new add-on for the popular web browser that gives web users an instant view of which companies are ‘watching’ them as they browse.
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The U.S. government says it must govern Internet technology more closely to protect against cyberattacks.
The research that led to the internet may have been funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, but freewheeling innovation created the patchwork of privately owned technology that makes up the Internet today. Now the U.S. government is trying [...]
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Pinterest had nearly 12 million unique visitors in January, 2012.
When you walk into a teenage girl’s bedroom what would you see on the walls? Probably pictures torn from magazines, drawings, maybe inspirational quotes. If you transform that visual collage into a social media site, and you have Pinterest. The site launched in 2011 [...]
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Lamar Smith has a unique vision for your internet rights.
Lamar Smith (R-TX), author of the ill-starred SOPA Internet regulation, has an even dumber idea for the Internet. In the name of fighting child pornography, he wants to force ISPs to log everything you do online, then make it available to police and government agents without [...]
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Most of that sweet fare is coming from home.
In recent years, America’s intake of sugary foods and drinks has dropped, but kids in the U.S. are still consuming too much, government researchers say.
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95% of teens are online.
Today’s teenagers are growing up in an unprecedented environment of hyper-inter-connectivity. According to recent data collected by the Pew Internet Project, 95% of teens 12 to 17 are online, 76% use social networking sites and 77% have cellphones.
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There are 1.2 billion social networking users worldwide.
U.S.-based social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter usually get most of the publicity, but eMarketer predicts that the worldwide social networking phenomenon will encompass nearly 1.5 billion internet users by the end of this year.
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Top internet firms are spying on smartphone users.
An investigation revealed on Sunday shows internet giant Facebook is accessing smartphone users’ personal text messages .
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Could your Facebook profile be a predictor of job performance?
Does a person’s Facebook profile predict what kind of employee he or she might be? Yes, and with unnerving accuracy, according to a new paper published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
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Only half of all people who own Internet-capable TVs have actually connected them to the internet.
The big buzz for the last couple of years has been 3D TV’s. It seems lately though it’s all about the Internet connection. Major TV-makers such as LG, Panasonic, Samsung and others are offering television sets with [...]
