Something tells me this is not a gesture of kindness!
Quote of the Day: ”Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
May 16th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
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May 15th, 2013 at 10:15 am
YouTube is responsible for 17% of home Internet traffic
YouTube’s share of residential downstream traffic has been growing, and is up from 13.8 percent a year ago.
According to Sandvine’s latest global internet phenomena report, YouTube is now responsible for 17.1 percent of all residential fixed-line downstream traffic in North America.
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May 14th, 2013 at 9:49 am
New wave of cyberattacks against U.S. corporations
The new attacks seek to destroy data or to manipulate industrial machinery and take over or shut down the networks that deliver energy or run industrial processes.
Warnings from federal officials, including a vague one issued last week by the Department of Homeland Security, are being prompted by a new wave of cyberattacks that are striking American corporations. Officials say this time the attackers’ aim is not espionage but sabotage, and the source seems to be somewhere in the Middle East.
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May 13th, 2013 at 11:09 am
Is anonymity mathematically impossible because of big data?
The more data there is, the less any of it can be said to be private.
The European Union introduced privacy legislation in 1995. The legislation defined “personal data” as any information that could identify a person, directly or indirectly. The legislators were apparently thinking of things like documents with an identification number, and they wanted them protected just as if they carried your name.
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May 7th, 2013 at 9:51 am
Global luxury goods ecommerce market rises by 25%
Luxury goods ecommerce soars.
The worldwide appetite for luxury goods doesn’t seem to have been slowed down by concerns about the state of the global economy, according to research released by business consulting firm Bain & Company in October 2012. In fact, total demand for luxury goods has remained very strong, with worldwide revenues estimated to have grown 10% in 2012.
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May 6th, 2013 at 10:36 am
Google Glass will push wearable technology boom
Wearable technology
Look around any waiting room and you will probably row after row of people hunched over their smartphones. But that common sight may change as tech companies bet that users are so attached to their screens, they’ll start to wear them.
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May 6th, 2013 at 8:24 am
The problem with password proliferation (Infographic)
The average person has to remember 15 passwords.
Over half of us say we can’t remember all our passwords. That makes sense, given that almost a third of all companies require their employees to remember six or more of them.
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May 5th, 2013 at 4:33 am
Top 10 Photos of the Week
What if shadows were inverted?
Quote of the Day: ”Some people say that I must be a terrible person, but it’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy in a jar on my desk” - Stephen King
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May 1st, 2013 at 12:29 pm
Internet sales tax will force small businesses to abide by tax codes in 9,646 different jurisdictions
Every business could face 46 separate audits (from the 45 states that collect sales taxes plus the District of Columbia).
Legislation on internet sales tax could subject small online businesses to up to 46 state audits. And since sales taxes vary among thousands of tax jurisdictions across the country, the chances that auditors will find mistakes—and slap the business owners with penalties—are very good. If truth-in-advertising requirements applied to legislation, says Heritage Action’s Dan Holler, the Marketplace Fairness Act would be renamed the Tax Audits from Hell Act of 2013.
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April 30th, 2013 at 12:10 pm
Google sees spike in government requests to remove content
In the Transparency Report’s latest edition, Google has revealed that the final six months of 2012 saw an increase in government requests to remove content — often YouTube videos. Google received 2,285 such requests (compared with 1,811 during the first half of 2012) that named a total of 24,179 pieces of content for removal (compared with 18,070 in the preceding period).
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