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Miley Cyrus: The Internet “Wastes Your Life”
Miley Cyrus picture
“Miley Cyrus has opened up about why she closed down her Twitter account and how she’s enjoying life more these days. “I’m telling kids, don’t go on the internet,” the 17-year-old Disney starlet tells Movieline. “It’s dangerous, it’s not fun, it wastes your life, and you should be outside playing sports or something.”” Link
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Sex.com Up For Sale Again
“Sex.com, one of the most valuable Internet domain names, will go up for auction next week after the previous owner defaulted on its debts. Escom LLC paid a reported $14 million for the Web site in 2006. But the company failed to repay debt owed to DOM Partners LLC, the New Jersey-based lender that helped finance the deal.” [Link]
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Pimp Offers Pregnant Teen For Sex On Craigslist
“A 16-year-old girl was seven months pregnant when her pimp posted sex ads offering her services on Craigslist, her mother says. And after her daughter had the child last summer, the same pimp used the same Internet service during the Olympics to post an ad under the ‘erotic services’ section, the mother said. It listed the girl’s cellphone number with the promise she was willing ‘to make your dreams come true.’” [Link]
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80% Of The World: Internet Access Is A “Fundamental Right”
“Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
The survey – of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries – found strong support for net access on both sides of the digital divide.” [Link]
New Google Chrome Automatically Translates The Web
The Official Google Chrome Blog notes: “Whether you’re catching up on your favorite Arabic gameshow, getting up to speed on the latest Korean mobile gadgetry, or researching the local perspective for a dream trip to Machu Picchu, we’re all constantly reminded that the internet is an amazingly multilingual place. The Google Chrome team is excited to introduce a new beta feature to help our users navigate the multilingual web: instant machine translation of webpages, without the need for any browser extensions or plug-ins.” [Link]
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Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Extortion By Yelp
“The suit alleges that the site tried to get a Long Beach veterinary hospital named Cats and Dogs Animal Hospital to pay $300 a month — for a minimum 12-month commitment — to suppress or delete reviews that disparaged the hospital.” [Link]
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China Porn Crackdown: Wants Identity Of Web Site Operators
“Web site operators will need to offer photographs of themselves and meet Internet service providers in person under new guidelines announced by the Chinese government this week, according to published reports. The ‘trial regulations’ were issued by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology under the auspices of an ongoing anti-porn campaign, but they will also help the government create records of all sites in the country and could be used to block other types of online content, the IDG News Service reported on Tuesday.” [Link]
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Report: Comcast To Have 100Mbps Service In 2010
“A source at cable service provider Comcast says the company is making improvements to its Internet service that will provide 20 percent of its subscribers with 100Mbps download speed by the end of the year. ” [Link]
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VIDEO: GoDaddy 2010 Super Bowl Commercial
GoDaddy’s 2010 Super Bowl commercial starring Danica Patrick
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Verizon Wireless Blocking 4Chan?
“4chan, the internet message and image board known for its legion of anonymous users, has been explicitly blocked by Verizon Wireless. 4chan founder Christopher Poole said, “Over the past 72 hours, we’ve been receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers having difficulty accessing the image boards… After an hour and a half on the phone, we’ve received confirmation from Verizon’s Network Repair Bureau (NRB) that we are ‘explicitly blocked.’”” Link
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