As we race towards the cocktail hour, we want to say thanks for sticking with us throughout the day. It's time for our ever-enduring weekly roundup of Microsoft news and intrigue....

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The Chinese government is using the Internet to help encourage retired army officers to become entrepreneurs over taking state positions, according to a report from the People's Daily, which acts...

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Last week, the US Department of Justice decided on a new interpretation of the Wire Act of 1961. This reinterpretation maintains that betting on sporting events or contests online is still illegal,...

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If you purchase anything on the Internet you probably are in the habit of making sure you are using a secure connection from a desktop web browser and you look for the lock button in the browser. Most of popular web sites like Facebook and Gmail also now use HTTPS to secure your communication, but that was not always the case. While it is fairly easy to tell whether a web browser is securing the data you send, it is not as easy to tell with other apps, particularly apps for smartphones and table [...]

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MacRumors points out one of the overlooked new features in the iPhone 4S: Bluetooth 4.0 – AKA Bluetooth Smart. It can communicate with Bluetooth Smart mark sensor devices such as heart-rate monitors, blood-glucose meters, smart watches, window and door security sensors, car key fobs, and blood-pressure cuffs. We could be looking at a social network that really touches the Internet of things (devcies) around us.


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This was posted on Reddit as someone's "funniest comment ever posted" on the site. If you're familiar with Reddit, you'll know the laughs come by the bucket load so I...

Read More: This really might be the funniest comment on the Internet

Facebook's move to test its credits service across the Internet could have huge ramifications for ecommerce and the Internet in Asia. The world's largest social network announced that it is...

Read More: Facebook Credits might just change the Internet landscape in Asia

Steve Jobs was a man who could see into the future. He would change our lives through technology and eventually with the introduction of mobile internet. His many gadgets made us think in a different light when it came to the way we communicated, worked, and played. The boom made possible in social media was [...]

Read More: Steve Jobs Sets the Trend In Mobile Internet Service

It is a metric that is well used across the world in research, analysis and reporting but it is time that the technology world stopped leaning so heavily on Internet...

Read More: How mobile is forcing us to change the way we measure the Internet

In Tunisia, after the former president Ben Ali fled the country, the use of privacy tool Hotspot Shield took a dive, going from over 70 million page views in January, steadily...

Read More: Hotspot Shield: A quiet hero for Internet privacy and security around the world

With all the excitement surrounding the arrival of undersea cables in East and Western Africa and the prospects of the smartphone revolution in bringing mobile connectivity to most parts of the continent, it is easy to forget for instance that the continent still has 1 domain per 10,000 users.

Read More: The Internet in Africa – still an alien concept

Social networks have brought about a revolution in the lives of everyone connected to them and they also have a big hand in the success of internet TV. It has brought people over the internet and connected them to the online TV world. Social networks have proved to be a medium from where people get [...]

Read More: The Role of Social Networking Sites in Promotion of Internet TV

Google is leading the drive to put resources online and help people in Thailand find information in real-time as the country battles the effects of severe flooding. To date, 27...

Read More: As floods batter Thailand, its citizens turn to the Internet for help

Would you leave your passwords for services like iTunes or Facebook to a loved one in your will? A study out yesterday suggested that it's a trend which could be...

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Who owns the Internet? The simple answer to that question is nobody; and everybody. If you pay for an Internet connection you can consider yourself a shareholder, albeit a silent...

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Source You've all heard the stat, if Facebook were a country, it would be the the third largest in the world. That stat was initially shared when Facebook hit 500 million users. Now the site has more than 800 million users and a new comparison that's worthy of blog posts, tweets and conference presentations…Facebook now [...]

Read More: Facebook now the size of the Internet in 2004

Ray Chan, Co-Founder and CEO of Singboard, and his partners arrived at 500 Startups with an idea for a photo-sharing app. After initial feedback for the app was luke warm, however, things changed drastically. Based on the fact that, according to Chan, karaoke bars in the U.S. paled in comparison to their native Hong Kong, [...]

Read More: Singboard Brings Karaoke to the Internet

Pew Internet surveyed 2,277 adults in the U.S. to learn about their text message and voice call behavior. The results are probably not surprising to those who have been following mobile communications trends. But, the findings are still enlightening.


Read More: Pew Internet: People Who Text A Lot Also Make a Lot of Voice Calls

Internet trolls are known for posting rude, mean and offensive content around the web, in the hopes of sparking controversy, but 25-year old Sean Duffy took trolling too far and now he’s paying with jail time.  Duffy is serving 18 weeks in jail in the UK for videos and messages that he posted on Facebook and YouTube, mocking the deaths of teenagers.  If you ask us, he deserves much more.


Read More: Internet Troll Gets 18 Weeks Jail Time For Mocking Teen Deaths On Facebook & YouTube