Google Hangouts

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GOOGLE has begun letting members of its social network worldwide broadcast “hangouts” live to internet titan’s growing online community.
Hangouts On Air were introduced last year at Google+ with select high-profile members testing the service that lets as many as ten people at a time take part in virtual roundtable style video chats broadcast for anyone … Continue reading “Google Hangouts”

Chinese Netizens Express Discontent On The Web While The Government Watches Warily

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Last month, a section of sidewalk in downtown Beijing, by all outward appearances sturdy and stable, crumbled below a woman who was absent-mindedly walking by. Within seconds, she was burned by scalding hot water pipes below and couldn’t be saved before emergency personnel arrived on the scene.

Although tragic, in most large countries this story would … Continue reading “Chinese Netizens Express Discontent On The Web While The Government Watches Warily”

Web Advertisements and Banners pay our bills here, but man, do people really click on them?

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For many years, I have remained a presence in the shadows. You citizens of the internet have gone about your lives, navigating to this page and that, reading articles, watching videos, exchanging messages with friends, but all the while a single question has clawed at your curiosity each time your focus breaks and you notice … Continue reading “Web Advertisements and Banners pay our bills here, but man, do people really click on them?”

Counterfeits Beating Street Sales

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STREET sellers of counterfeit brand-name perfumes and purses will soon see their illegal market overtaken by the Internet, a new US report on pirated intellectual property said today.
The US Trade Representative’s annual Special 301 report — which designates the world’s worst offenders of US intellectual property rights — said there was “sustained growth” in copyright … Continue reading “Counterfeits Beating Street Sales”