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Newspapers. I know that you are having a tough time of it at the moment, but here's a way to make sure that I never visit your website and never buy your newspaper ever again. It's easy, just insert an advert into a news story and force me to click on it before you show me the rest of the
Just when you think you've heard the last bit of bad news from Electronic Arts (EA), more is revealed. On March 18, 2013, CEO John Riccitello resigned from the company. His position was temporarily taken over by Chairman Larry Probst, who was a previous EA chief executive. Riccitello's resignation was probably not a huge surprise to many. EA has had
China loves its high-speed rail lines. Now the country is boasting that it is even faster and cheaper to go from one end to the other, with the "longest" high-speed rail line in the world -- a staggering 2,298 kilometer stretch of metal that reaches from north to south across the nation. The new trains move at 186 mph and run
There is perhaps no need to bore you with past details because by now all of you likely know the saga of John McAfee, the creator of McAfee anti-virus. He has been living on an island along the coast of Belize for the past five years, but recently ran into a bit of trouble there. McAfee hasn't actually been charged
I'm generally not a big fan of politicians. There's too many of them, they're overpaid and they get their job through a blind popularity contest. At least with X-Factor and Pop Idol, the contestants have to show what they're skilled at before we vote for them. So it was with much glee that I came across World Leaders in their
As lawmakers across the globe attempt to pin down a wriggling Internet with rules aimed at stemming file sharing between users (but, curiously, increasing file sharing between governments and corporations), among other things, there appears to be a growing movement towards purchased privacy by the Internet community – particularly the younger folks. TorrentFreak shared a study this week done by
Okay, that headline is a bit misleading because World Wide Web, or W3, is actually older than 19, but on April 30, 1993 it officially entered open-source. That was probably the biggest open source project in history and it was instituted by the "father of the internet", Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in Switzerland. Berners-Lee, in 1989, wrote the