Monthly Archives: January 2010

Here’s something they don’t teach in marketing 101: If you’re pushing software that no one wants — like, say, annoying adware — and your downloads are going nowhere, what do you do? Answer: you push somebody else’s popular software and …

At a privacy roundtable sponsored by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in San Francisco, Facebook Director of Public Policy Tim Sparapani said that 35 percent of the 350 million Facebook users (that’s 122 million!) actually checked their privacy settings when …

From Richard Purcell, executive director of The Privacy Projects (www.theprivacyprojects.org), organizing sponsor of Data Privacy Day: “Most consumers see the benefit of living online, but too few are aware of just how much information is being collected, who is collecting …

The competition is now closed. Winners will be announced shortly. Thanks for your entries. Following Apple’s announcement of the iPad and the rumors circulating about the crazy things people are willing to do to get one for free; we decided …

Someone hacked into a 3Stars outdoor advertising screen on the Garden Ring road in Moscow about midnight last Thursday and ran a two-minute hardcore video clip. The showing caused a massive traffic jam but city officials said the good news …

Researchers with Internet security group Team Cymru, headquartered in Burr Ridge, Ill., have reported that in the last six months they found a doubling of the number of botnets controlled through http – indicating easy-to-use point-and-click kits that function in …

Malicious operators are increasing their attacks on .edu sites so they can use them in search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning schemes. The .edu sites are given higher rankings by search engines because they are expected to have more reliable information. …

And 350 million Facebookers. Consumer metrics firm RJMetrics of Camden, N.J, said in a recent report that 75 million people were using Twitter at the end of last year. At that point, there were 6.2 million people joining the micro-blogging …

At the Cisco Networkers Live 2010 event in Barcelona, a Cisco spokesman estimated that video would make up 90 percent of Internet traffic by 2019. All Internet traffic will grow five times its present volume in the next three years, …

Ben Edelman, Harvard privacy researcher and guru has revisited the features of Google Toolbar and was appalled to discover that disabling it doesn’t really disable it. He is recommending that all users uninstall it. In a long, thorough and well-written …