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Entries Tagged ‘Internet’

The Web - Can’t Live Without It

I tried to do without, but I have to have my World Wide Web. In fact, these days, most people agree, the Internet is more important than the old media — like TV.
 “For the first time more people would choose to eliminate television from their lives than the Internet, if they were forced to choose.” [...]

The Internet - I AM NOT Addicted

(John Lyman’s Webcam — refresh your screen to update the webcam picture) **It’s stuff like this that gets people addicted to the internet!!!**   We are bombarded with information, from TV, radio, cell phones and Internet. We are “in touch” and accessible 24/7. We are, possibly, unable to easily exist without these conveniences. Or, are we?
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Clear Brand Goes Wire-less

Re-branding their service to “Clear”, ClearWire loses the attachment to wires altogether. The mobile Internet service offers unlimited local telephone service for $25 per month [keep your same phone number] and a similar price for Internet. Claiming faster Internet connections than you would get from your cell phone company, and no real numbers to back it [...]

WolframAlpha - Beyond Funk & Wagnall’s

The Wolfram|Alpha website describes the new search engine as “… the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.  You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.   Based on a new kind of [...]

Living & Dying Online

We blog. We surf. We are amused. We learn. We are “online”. The Internet has become an addiction for some. Some people only have the friends they chat with online. Some feel disconnected from the real world and only “alive” or comfortable in a chat room. As long as you are not on a webcam, [...]