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Yahoo: Resume Padding Scandal
May 10th, 2012
READ MOREYahoo Chief Executive Officer Scott Thompson was caught padding its resume. In several published biographical statements (including the official information presented in Yahoo site) he has asserted that he holds a Bachelor’s degree in accounting and computer science from Stonehill …
HTML5: A New Code for the WWW
May 9th, 2012
READ MOREThe Internet has a new code: HTML5 (Hyper Text Markup Language) the fifth major revision of the language used in the World Wide Web. According to Wikipedia HTML 5 is designed to make it easy to include and handle multimedia …
Application For Corporate Suffixes in the Web
April 13th, 2012
READ MOREIn Internet’s world a domain suffix is the last part of a domain name. Each domain suffix defines the type of website represented by its name (.com for commercial sites and .org for organizations, etcetera). The Internet Corporation for Assigned …
Macs Under Virus Attack
April 6th, 2012
READ MOREOne of the most promoted advantages of Apple is the security of its operating systems against virus attacks. This week it suffered the most serious malware attack in its history. A report released earlier this week by Dr. Web, a …
Yahoo Cuts 2,000 Jobs
April 6th, 2012
READ MOREYahoo, the Internet giant is living a radical reshaping. On Wednesday it announced that it will eliminate around 14% of its workforce. This is one of the most relevant actions decided by its new CEO Scott Thompson. In a written …
A Journalism Competition for Financial Inclusion
April 4th, 2012
READ MOREThere is a growing interest about microfinance and financial inclusion issues in most information sources of the world, especially in newspapers and Internet sites. Nevertheless that’s not enough. The prestigious British newspaper The Guardian has launched, for the fifth consecutive …
Rumors of a Coup in China
April 3rd, 2012
READ MORELast week in many Chinese Internet sites there were rumors about a coup in China. As a consequence China’s major microblogging sites have suspended the comment sections. They have been “punished for allowing rumors to spread”. The Chinese versions of …
Google+ Has Ruined the Company
March 26th, 2012
READ MOREJames Whittaker worked three years in Google (2009-2012). He quitted the company last month and joined Microsoft. In a blog entry published some days ago he said that the corporate culture in Google was divided in two eras: “Before Google+” …
Internet Accounts for 4.7% of US Economy
March 22nd, 2012
READ MOREThe global network keeps growing at a fast pace. According to a new study of the Boston Consulting Group it contributes more to American economy than the entire federal government. In 2010 the Internet accounted for US $684 billion (4.7%) …
Five Arrested in High Profile Cyberattacks
March 8th, 2012
READ MORELast Tuesday, top members of the computer hacker group Anonymous were arrested in Europe and the United States and charged in Manhattan. A wide-ranging investigation used the help of one of the group’s leaders who was working as a secret …