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Dec 27, 2007 2:54 PM CST

'US Americans' Love Videos

Internet phenomenon scores big in 2007

(Newser) - With small-screen stars ranging from ditzy beauty queens to potty-mouthed pint-sized landlords, Americans increasingly gathered around the YouTube watercooler in 2007. They racked up 100 billion views on various video sites, ABC News reports. Cultural commentators liken the phenomenon to cavemen swapping tall tales around campfires, but 78% of us...

New Cisco Unit First Based Abroad

Dec 26, 2007 10:10 PM CST

New Cisco Unit First Based Abroad

Will aim to wire entire cities in Middle East, China, India from Bangalore HQ

(Newser) - Dozens of new cities are to be built in China, India, and the Middle East in the coming decade and Cisco Systems wants to network them top-to-bottom, the Financial Times reports. The networking equipment giant is setting up a new business center in Bangalore, India, as part of its push...

Volunteers Put PCs
to Work for Science

Dec 25, 2007 2:44 PM CST

Volunteers Put PCs to Work for Science

'Volunteer Computing' creates quick – and cheap – supercomputers for science

(Newser) - While you sleep, your home PC can forge new worlds in science. More researchers across the nation are embracing the concept of volunteer computing—in which they harness the power of otherwise sleeping computers to speed up the mathematical grunt work of their projects, the Chicago Tribune reports. The concept...

E-Cards Spread Holiday Cheer, Viruses

Dec 24, 2007 7:44 PM CST

E-Cards Spread Holiday Cheer, Viruses

Online greeting cards rising in popularity; paper still preferred

(Newser) - Online greeting cards are all the rage this holiday season. They're mostly free, and can feature funny, interactive subjects ranging from elf tossing to reindeer arm wrestling. E-cards are also delivered instantly, an advantage for the forgetful around Christmas. But traditional cards are still the preferred way to spread holiday...

Dating Site Blasts Rival in Ads

Dec 24, 2007 12:46 PM CST

Dating Site Blasts Rival in Ads

Chemistry.com slams eHarmony over lack of gay matching services

(Newser) - Dating site Chemistry.com is again blasting rival eHarmony in an ad campaign, this time for its lack of gay matching services and links to evangelical Christian values, the New York Times reports. The ads show “eHarmony is out of sync with what is happening in America,” Chemistry....

Airplane WiFi Poses Sticky Situation

Dec 24, 2007 12:26 PM CST

Airplane WiFi Poses Sticky Situation

Crammed together passengers may not like neighbor's browsing material

(Newser) - Airlines getting ready to offer Internet access are grappling with how to enforce netiquette at 33K feet. "We think decency and good sense and normal behavior will prevail," said the CEO of one service. If it's not porn or violent images, its annoying ringtones and loud conversations that...

TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

Dec 24, 2007 9:47 AM CST

TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

NBC hopes made-for-web show can defy so-so traffic numbers

(Newser) - YouTube buzz is tough to manufacture, and so far NBC’s “Quarterlife,” the network's experiment in TV-quality production for the web, hasn’t managed. The last dozen episodes have each drawn around 100,000 views between MySpace and YouTube combined, which isn’t many eyeballs in the TV...

Aussies Censor Internet

Dec 23, 2007 11:20 PM CST

Aussies Censor Internet

New ratings system Down Under

(Newser) - Australian Internet users are getting wary about new regulations meant to keep minors away from mature content, Ars Technica reports. A stringent new ratings system to be introduced in January is meant to stop kids from accessing adult-oriented content, but critics say it will be child's play to get around,...

Standardization Stifling Change: Web Designers

Dec 20, 2007 11:56 PM CST

Standardization Stifling Change: Web Designers

W3C brokered 'browser wars' but now seen as roadblock to change

(Newser) - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been the Web's governing body since the "Wild West" days of the mid-90s. It helped end the Netscape/Explorer "browser wars", but Web designers today are worried that the body's standards management process has slowed the pace of change down to dial-up...

Teenagers
Still Addicted
to POTS

Dec 20, 2007 7:39 PM CST

Teenagers Still Addicted to POTS

Net-loving teens use plain old telephone service the most

(Newser) - Internet use among teenagers continues to rise—93% of teens have some sort of access, and 64% contribute some kind of content on a regular basis. But, despite the proliferation of cell phones and a myriad of bleeding-edge choices, the No.1 communications tool for teens remains the land line,...

Net Makes Star of MIT Eccentric

Dec 19, 2007 8:11 PM CST

Net Makes Star of MIT Eccentric

Physics professor creates rainbows, has Net-happy acolytes in India and China

(Newser) - The latest Net sensation doesn’t defend Britney Spears or mimic the history of dance; instead he explains electrostatics, pendulums, and the conservation of energy. Walter Lewin, a 71-year-old MIT physics professor, is one of the first academic superstars of the Internet, bringing educational showmanship—say, demonstrating rockets by riding...

Feds Lag on Internet Protocol Upgrade

Dec 17, 2007 3:48 PM CST

Feds Lag on Internet Protocol Upgrade

Agencies must support IPv6, but most aren't switching

(Newser) - A deadline for US federal agencies to support an upgrade to the current Internet communications protocol, which would provide much-needed new IP addresses, is likely to come and go without much changing. Agencies' networks must be capable of running IPv6 within 6 months, but observers estimate most won't actually make...

To Thine Own Self Be Googled

Dec 17, 2007 5:23 AM CST

To Thine Own Self Be Googled

Number of adults searching themselves online doubles in three years

(Newser) - More Americans are Googling themselves, friends and dates. A Pew study found that 47% of US adult Internet users have looked up themselves using the search engine, compared with 22% in 2002. The study found 53% Googled neighbors, colleagues, or dates—often checking bankruptcy and divorce proceedings, and other public...

Yahoo VPs Dropping
Like Flies

OPINION

Dec 14, 2007 5:18 PM CST

Yahoo VPs Dropping Like Flies

And that's a good thing, argues Kara Swisher on All Things Digital

(Newser) - "This slimming down is a good idea, given Yahoo’s VP obesity," writes Kara Swisher in All Things Digital. She says it's not clear who's behind the departures of numerous execs from the notoriously top-heavy company, nor who jumped and who was pushed out. But a source called...

Research Notes Make Internet History

Dec 14, 2007 12:07 AM CST

Research Notes Make Internet History

New project to archive academic raw materials online

(Newser) - The Center for New History and Media has received a big grant to help store the raw material of academic research as part of its Internet Archive project, Ars Technica reports. Director Dan Cohen wants to help the academic world by making it easy for scholars to make their research...

Jackass 2.5 to Have Web-Only Debut

Dec 13, 2007 1:34 AM CST

Jackass 2.5 to Have Web-Only Debut

'First Internet movie', studio heads say

(Newser) - Paramount is moving into uncharted territory by premiering Jackass 2.5 online, the New York Times reports. The December 19 premier on Blockbuster's Movielink service will be the first time a studio-backed feature film has made its debut on the Web. Executives hope that a successful experiment will pave the...

Quite Literally, Chinese Aren't Saying 'Google'

Dec 12, 2007 2:43 PM CST

Quite Literally, Chinese Aren't Saying 'Google'

Language barrier keeps search engine a bit player in big market

(Newser) - "Google" is a verb in many dictionaries, but the challenge of pronouncing it in Chinese has spelled trouble for the planet’s biggest search engine. "G-O-O-G-L-E is not a normal Chinese spelling and people don't pronounce it right," one Google exec tells Bloomberg of China, where the...

AT&T Adds Speed to
US Network

Dec 10, 2007 3:09 PM CST

AT&T Adds Speed to US Network

Keeping up with 21st century consumers' broadband greed

(Newser) - AT&T has begun using a high-speed backbone network to move data faster across the US, the company said Monday. The network's capacity is 40 gigabits per second -- quadruple the previous capacity -- allowing users to more quickly access bandwidth-greedy files and videos. It is the first such network...

Book Lovers Make Plea for Better Reviews

OPINION

Dec 9, 2007 4:51 AM CST

Book Lovers Make Plea for Better Reviews

New Republic calls shrinking coverage a risk to society

(Newser) - The book may be in decline in our fast-changing world, one complete with electronic readers and shrinking attention spans, but the editors at New Republic will have none of it. They reject the notion that books must conform to the digital age and take newspapers to task for the decline...

JetBlue Launches In-Flight Email

Dec 6, 2007 10:32 PM CST

JetBlue Launches In-Flight Email

Airline pairs with Yahoo, Blackberry to bring the (limited) Net onboard

(Newser) - JetBlue is offering email and instant messaging services on an A320 test flight, in a move to equip its whole fleet with wireless access. The tech-savvy, low-budget airline has paired up with Yahoo and Research in Motion to give passengers with laptops or Blackberries the possibility of plugging in, in-flight....