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White House Kills Support For SOPA

Internet Issues 19 January 2012 | 0 Comments

The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has already responded to petitions protesting SOPA or the Stop Online Piracy Act. The note said that the administration is aware of foreign website’s online piracy and the serious problems it may bring but they are not in favor of the legislation’s response against the issue. They say [...]

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Why Using Social Media is Great for Your Small Business

Internet Issues 27 December 2011 | 0 Comments

Setting up a small business is not an easy task. You need to consider a large amount of things before putting up the business of your choice. One of the things you need to give a great amount of time is how you would market your business and your products for you to be able [...]

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Online Banking Made Easy

Internet Issues 11 December 2011 | 0 Comments

Online banking is becoming more popular on the World Wide Web. With the fast internet technological advancement, many industries including banks have come up with improvements involving their services, internet and customers. Aside from emails and chat, you can do a lot nowadays in the internet such as buying, selling and even banking. The following [...]

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Groupon Helps Needy Families

Internet Issues 26 November 2011 | 0 Comments

Helping combat global hunger can be done without necessarily going on a mission trip. You can help do that with just few clicks of your mouse. Groupon deals will cater it for you through its new deal on cheap meals. For just $11 you can feed a family of four for two weeks! Imagine how [...]

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Adobe Killing Mobile Development for Flash

Internet Issues,Tech Issues 9 November 2011 | 0 Comments

If Steve Jobs were still alive, this news would make him too full to eat for a week, because the richness of this news is just too much. Adobe is killing off its development on Flash for mobile platforms. This means that Apple’s decision to keep Flash off of their phones was prescient (or maybe [...]

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It pays to be Cautious when Searching the Web

Internet Issues 26 October 2011 | 0 Comments

In the world where information technology is making great strides night and day online, more and more dictionaries and encyclopedias in our homes are gathering dust. When you can get the necessary information at the touch of a button there is no need to take out those large volumes and thumb through the hundreds of [...]

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How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business

Internet Issues 30 September 2011 | 0 Comments

Social networking has become an essential part of life to a tech-oriented person. It is an excellent way to keep in close contact with friends and family via the Internet. It can help a person to advertise their current mood, thoughts, ideas and activities. There is a lot of fun to be had through social [...]

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Netflix Has An Odd Way Of Communicating With It’s Customers

Internet Issues 27 July 2011 | 0 Comments

We are all aware of the hubbub regarding Netflix’s decision to raise their prices as much as sixty percent. I mean, it’s not like we are in a recession or anything. Regardless, it is discretionary spending after all, but Netflix just may want to remember that their business is built on something that is purely [...]

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2nd Appeals Court Decision Bars U.S. From Warrantless Spying

Internet Issues 16 December 2010 | 0 Comments

I really had high hopes for the Obama administration. After the Bush administration proved to be disastrous for civil liberties, I thought Obama would seek to end practices like warrantless spying. Apparently that is not the case. One appeals court stated that email is protected under the 4th Amendment. A second appeals court has gone [...]

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The Real Reason The U.S. Is After WikiLeaks?

Internet Issues 14 December 2010 | 0 Comments

There has been much ballyhoo over the WikiLeaks cable release. I have no intention of rehashing it here. However, Mike Masnick over at Techdirt has an interesting thought. What if the whole deal is being over-hyped in order to scare people into supporting more government invasion of privacy? In that post, Masnick notes that this [...]

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