Posts Tagged ‘ Internet ’

Kansas Woman Wants to Outlaw Hurtful Comments on Memorial Websites

January 25, 2011
Kansas Woman Wants to Outlaw Hurtful Comments on Memorial Websites

A Kansas woman is trying to drum up support to make it illegal for cyberbullies to post hurtful comments and photos on memorial websites, The Kansas City Star reports.
The crusade began when Karla O’Malley happened by a car wreck on Christmas Eve in wh…

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Are AOL Subscribers Dense?

January 25, 2011
Are AOL Subscribers Dense?

First and foremost, you might be surprised to learn that people still subscribe to AOL, the once popular ISP that fell from relevance about the time broadband came into its own. But get this — according to The New Yorker, some 80 percent of AOL profit…

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New Study Blames Facebook for 20 Percent of Divorces

January 24, 2011
New Study Blames Facebook for 20 Percent of Divorces

It might be true that social networking itself doesn’t kill marriages, unhappy couples do, but according to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, poplular social networking site Facebook is involved in one out of every five Ameri…

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Google Offers to Take On Groupon

January 23, 2011
Google Offers to  Take On Groupon

A month after group buying site Groupon turned down a $6 billion takeover offer from internet giant Google, the latter confirmed plans of invading the online deals space in a statement sent to Mashable, which published a confidential fact sheet about…

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Cheezburger Network Can Haz $30 Million in Funding

January 21, 2011
Cheezburger Network Can Haz $30 Million in Funding

Like most, we’re big fans of the Cheezburger Network, which is best known for its weblog of lolcats and other animals, as well as its Fail Blog spinoff and other amusing memes. There’s always that fear that something awesome (and free) will up and vani…

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Mozilla Blocks Skype Extension for Firefox, Explains Why

January 21, 2011
Mozilla Blocks Skype Extension for Firefox, Explains Why

Skype is an awesome VoIP app. Firefox is still one of our favorite browsers. What happens when you put the two together? You get a buggy combination, Mozilla says.
“The current shipping version of the Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla…

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Sony Gives Rose to Opera Software for Browser Integration

January 21, 2011
Sony Gives Rose to Opera Software for Browser Integration

In the battle for browser market market share, Opera Software can claim victory in a skirmish to land a contract with Sony. As a result, Sony will shove the Opera browser into its Internet-connected Bravia televisions and Blu-ray disc players, the Swed…

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What’s the Easiest Way to Get $1 Million? Ask For It on YouTube!

January 21, 2011

Making a million dollars is apparently far easier than any of us ever thought. Rather than go out in the real world and toil away for ‘the man,’ you can just hop on YouTube and ask for the money. Don’t roll your eyes, it actually works.
So maybe it won…

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