Last year, Facebook marked a new milestone in its nine-year history. It lost users. While the network did pass the 1 billion monthly active user threshold globally in 2012, Facebook also lost 1.4 million U.S. monthly active users late last year, a small but symbolic decline. Nor was it the only network experiencing a slowdown. […]
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New Yorker Launches ‘Strongbox’ for Anonymous File Transmission
The New Yorker on Wednesday launched “Strongbox,” an online system for sources to send files and messages to the magazine’s journalists with “a reasonable amount of anonymity,” as Senior Editor Amy Davidson put it. A source can use Strongbox to send information anonymously in the following way: First, they access the Tor network, which anonymizes […]
Google Takes Another Bite Out of SEO: Keywords
For search engine marketers — and the companies who depend on them — things just got a little tougher. SEO companies, most still reeling from the impact of Google’s Panda and Penguin updates, aren’t going to like what the CEO of LinkSmart reported in Forbes on Jan. 22. It’s not just links that are taking […]
How To Hide Your Personal Information On Facebook
In the age of the Internet, privacy is a luxury and you have to constantly be on your heels to maintain it. Facebook makes it particularly hard for users to guard their personal data. Despite many changes, Facebook privacy settings remain complicated. Moreover, past updates have unexpectedly made previously private information available to the public. […]
More than half of senior citizens now use the Internet
More than half of Americans who are 65 or older now use the Internet or email. That’s the first time data have shown more than 50 percent of seniors going online. This study, by the Pew Research Center, found that 53 percent of older Americans use the Internet or email. And just over a third […]
Internet traffic to soar (will quadruple in four years)
The amount of Internet traffic will quadruple over the next four years. That’s the prediction contained in Cisco Systems’ (Nasdaq: CSCO) annual Visual Networking Index Forecast, the company’s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyze Internet Protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide. The index predicts annual global IP traffic to be 1.3 zettabytes by 2016. […]