Mikko Hypponen: Internet crime needs a special Police force
Sunday, November 30th, 2008Mikko Hypponen, the F-Secure CTO, visited Romania and we met him for about 2 hours. He said that organized crime online is starting to act like Mafia and the autorities are doing almost nothing about it, which encourages criminals to do more spam, phishing and hacking online. He says that web need an Internet Police, [...]
Web traffic booms on Black Friday
Sunday, November 30th, 2008Consumers have started to look for Black Friday deals early with online traffic to a custom category of Black Friday advertising Web sites increasing 58 percent compared to last year, according to new data from Experian Marketing Services. Further indication that retail traffic has rebounded to the same level as last year is the 1 [...]
Identity theft: get protected online
Monday, November 17th, 2008With good technology, there is also bad technology. The internet has proven to become a useful tool in our everyday lives, but it is exploited for bad reasons by irresponsible people. In the United States, white collar crimes are increasing and it becomes even worse during the approaching holiday season when focus is directed towards [...]
Lack of innovation turns off AOL online services
Sunday, November 16th, 2008AOL is on a product-cutting spree. In addition to the shuttering of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring, the company will also be shutting down the AOL Video Uploads service starting this week, says Michael Arlington on TechCrunch. AOL is recommending that users transfer videos to Motionbox, a New York based video sharing and editing [...]
Consumers will spend less in stores, but slightly more online
Sunday, November 16th, 2008Online consumers intend to spend less in stores this holiday season than last year, The Conference Board and TNS report, but slightly more online. Consumers will be expecting free shipping and deals not available in stores when they shop online. The Consumer Internet Barometer, a quarterly report produced by The Conference Board, the global business [...]
Nielsen: 98 percent of iPhone users go online
Friday, November 14th, 2008Ninety-eight percent of iPhone subscribers use at least one mobile data service according to market research firm The Nielsen Company’s Q3 2008 U.S. iPhone Executive Overview. Seventy percent of iPhone users listen to audio tracks on their device, with 39 percent downloading music directly to the handset–66 percent of users download software and applications, and [...]
Girls love online games
Monday, September 15th, 2008New study indicates significant user growth among teenage girls between the ages of 12 and 17 on web based games and virtual worlds. While the total female online gaming audience in August 2008 grew 27 percent versus last year to nearly 43 million visitors, the number of female gamers in the 12-24 segment grew at [...]
US elections: useful links
Friday, September 12th, 2008P2008: Race for the White House
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/P2008.html
U.S. Department of State, Foreign Press Center: Elections 2008
http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/c21250.htm
U.S. Department of State: U.S. Elections
http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/democracy/elections/elections_links.html
U.S. National Archives: U.S. Election & Voting Resources
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/links2.html#maps
Vanderbilt University Elections Links
http://lib11.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/godort.plsearchtext=Elections&Type=Simple&Resource=DB&Website=FDTF
Voice of America. The Road to the 2008 Election
http://www.voanews.com/english/US-Elections-2008.cfm
Study: mobile phone is a revenue channel for e-commerce
Monday, June 9th, 2008Mobile devices represent a major growth opportunity for the retail industry by providing a new purchasing channel for consumers, a Cisco study reveals. The company’s third annual e-commerce study indicates that mobile devices are quickly joining physical stores, websites and catalogs as an important retail channel. The rise of social networking and advanced mobile technologies [...]
Amazon: $2 million loses
Monday, June 9th, 2008The outage experienced by the world’s most popular online retailer has highlighted the drastic impact some server downtime can have on business, with the company potentially losing upwards of US$1.8 million during over 2 hours. The site went down around 1:30 in the afternoon EDT on Friday.
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