Tag Archives: Internet

“What’s in your head is not you, it’s the culture around you.” We are all racist to some extent, but we should not blame ourselves since it is not our fault; we have it because of the books we read, movies and television shows we usually watch and the websites we surf, says a new research. Paul Verhaeghen, professor in psychology at the Georgia...

US Internet users spend around eight hours on Facebook, says a study. In August, 176.2 million people visited Google in the US while Facebook visitors were 163.2 million. Visitors of other leading sites were: Yahoo (149.0 million), Microsoft (134.4 million) and YouTube (128.0 million), says Nielsen, a publicly held global information and media company, and is one of the...

A new survey on Internet behavior says more than half of all teens and adults are either harassed or bullied during Internet surfing. The study is part of MTV’s “A Thin Line,” campaign, which is a multi-year initiative to stamp digital abuse out. ...

At present, people are habituated with accessing the Internet using mobile phone like portable devices to get necessary information and to stay tuned with friends and family whenever they like. Nevertheless, safety is always a vital issue and users should know how to handle these lucrative devices. Some tips: Before sharing an image, users should be careful about the probable...

In the near future, world’s thinnest nanowires will drive computers super fast utilizing light. To perform functions in computing and electronics, nanowires will use a ‘photonic chip’ at its core. The developed nanowire is thousand times thinner than a human hair says a combined research team from Swinburne University of Technology and the Australian National University....

Search engine giant Google has forecasted that India is going to add more than 200 million Internet users within two years. However, the company thinks, Internet firms’ have to face more challenge and competition during these upcoming years because of the wake of television, of newspapers grabbing major advertisement revenue and of the government, which tries to restrict...

Google has launched a program in Liverpool offering more than 1500 businesses one to one counsel about building website and increasing their potential. Experts think if the pilot program become successful, the program and the scheme will be rolled out in whole country. Small businesses cannot run fast without a website. A study says, with an internet charisma small businesses...

The United States is not suitably equipped to handle the obvious extension of cyber attacks, warns a new research. ...