Twitter amounts to serious business for many celebrities and large corporations. Product endorsements, promotional details and event advertising represent a growing market in both celebrity and corporate publicity machines. Like many of its recognized users, the value of Twitter’s instantaneous mass communication abilities has not been lost on Internet hackers. Twitter fan favorites, including Miley ...
Read more With its lighthearted blend of lovable cheek, quality literacy and numeracy instruction and just the right amount of shrewd and lovable monsters, Sesame Streetentices millions of devoted parents and enamored children to their televisions each day. Beyond letters and numbers, the series teaches viewers about sharing, friendship, problem solving and how to show kindness to others. Sesame ...
Read more The term personal computer means much more than the phrase typically implies. Computers represent such an integral part of our personal lives that we use them in almost every possible setting. We review business emails in our pajamas, check status updates while brushing our teeth and browse the Internet while cooking dinner. Unfortunately, computer users ...
Read more Parents now have another thing to worry about with their kids and technology — celebrity “swatting” calls. When Punk’d premiered on MTV in 2003, the collective celebrity community held its breath, wondering who would be the next victim to be humiliated on national television in the name of harmless fun. Recent tricksters have taken this ...
Read more Kids all around the world dream about the day they visit the magical world of Disney. For many of these children, Disney parks and resorts represent a world of legend filled with enchanted princesses, celebrated adventures and beloved animated characters turned into real-life photo opportunities. Beginning this spring, Disney plans to issue digital ID bracelets to collect ...
Read more Online dating can sometimes have detrimental results.
Take Manti Te’o, Notre Dame’s star linebacker who has been at the center of a high-profile online dating scandal. His “girlfriend,” with whom he had an online relationship, allegedly died of leukemia. This news made Te’o’s story front and center during a time when college football players would give their ...
Read more The recent dramatic confusion around Manti Te’o’s online love life and it’s just as heart wrenching conclusion has left many online daters wondering how to date safely online if such a public figure as Te’o was allegedly duped. It’s tough enough to find love in the real world with all your friends and family trying ...
Read more Last week we saw how 2012 was ‘The Year of Privacy’. As I was flying 30,000 feet above sea level after spending time at the International Consumer Electronics Show, it became quite clear that 2013 is going to be ‘the Year of Privacy on Steroids’. With so many new sites, gadgets, and technology offerings integrating ...
Read more As social technology continues to advance, privacy continues to get attention from the government, consumers and media. Privacy-based fears and concerns, whether legitimate or not, fueled many of the big privacy events in 2012. The following countdown gives you just a glimpse of online privacy from this past year.
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Read more The iPhone5, iPad mini and Kindle are just some of the exciting gadgets many of you found under your tree this year. As you welcome your new digital gear into your home this holiday season, you will want to protect your personal information, identities and beloved technical equipment in the best way possible.
Our increasing sense of digital dependence raises ...
Read more The stress of holiday shopping often outweighs the joy of gift buying. The crowded malls, parking space battles, long lines, limited store inventory and overwhelmed sales associates drive more people to shop online each year, where consumers sit quietly with a beverage in hand perusing a countless number of gift deals and choices. In fact, ...
Read more Over two hundred years ago, French philosopher Voltaire wrote, “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” While it may have been enlightening then, today it can drive our collective call to action.
With so many responding with their opinions about gun control in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. massacre, I write not as a person who grew ...
Read more A new scandal surfaces almost weekly in Hollywood, and nothing receives more media attention than the release of a new celebrity sex tape. With 42 million search results for “Kim Kardashian sex tape” appearing online, no question exists about the extent of the world’s fascination with publicized celebrity indiscretions.
The attention celebrities receive for such actions ...
Read more Imagine you felt passionate enough about a cause to place yourself in harm’s way to support the side you believed in. Now imagine you could do this without leaving your living room and still step into the front lines of the battle. That’s exactly what today’s social justice hackers are doing via the Internet – ...
Read more Did you vote? And no, I am not talking about for Romney or Obama. Or anything political for that matter. I am talking Facebook. A few years ago, Facebook was the first company of its kind to experiment with democracy when it provided its users with the right to vote on policy changes and updates. While news ...
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Some of you may have turkey on your mind, while others think past the feast and on to the online shopping. Deals like “free Apple iPad if you click here” or “check out this site for 50% off all designer watches” sound too good to be true. In fact, these deals are too good to ...
Read more We are all very good at using our common sense when we go on vacation, so that criminals, like those in the movie Home Alone, don’t decide to burglarize our homes while we are gone. We ask neighbors to take in our garbage, collect our mail, and turn on our lights periodically so it looks like ...
Read more The President has asked Americans all across the country to come together as a nation to help fellow citizens recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. As the community steps up, so do the scammers.
In the devastating wake of Sandy, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a new warning for all investors to show ...
Read more The recent child abductions in Colorado and New Jersey raise important questions about how to best assist law enforcement in locating and rescuing missing children. According to a survey released by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, not enough parents in the United States know vital statistics about their kids, including height, hair color, eye ...
Read more You’ve gotten the best costumes for the kids and more candy than you can eat in a year. As darkness approaches, the kids are waiting by the door to start trick-or-treating. But amidst all this excitement and like all parents, you are worrying about the real dangers that might be lurking out there this Halloween.
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