“Microsoft’s second annual survey of Internet users around the world, released here in advance of the World Economic Forum that is taking place this week in Davos, Switzerland, shows that fifteen years into the 21st century, Internet users still think overwhelmingly that personal technology is making the world better and more vital. Large majorities of… Continue Reading
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Ad Network Turn Will Suspend Zombie Cookie Program. When Will Verizon?
Via EFF – “Advertising network Turn announced today that they will suspend their zombie tracking cookie program. Turn was recently caught using Verizon Wireless’ invasive UIDH header to undelete tracking cookies that web visitors had previously deleted. This unacceptable practice means that users who delete cookies to avoid Turn’s and others’ tracking will continue to… Continue Reading
Price Perception Index for digital retail
New release: “Boomerang Commerce today introduced the Price Perception Index for digital retail. The index measures how retailers optimize prices to attract buyers, compete with other retailers and build their business on a mix of profit margins and volume. This announcement was made today at the annual National Retail Federation (NRF) Convention at the Jacob… Continue Reading
A Complete List of .Gov Domains
Via 18F: “There are a lot of .gov domains: over 5,300 of them. About 1,300 of these are used by the federal government’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The rest are spread across states, territories, counties, cities, and native tribes. For a while now, the public has been able to download a dataset of the roughly… Continue Reading
Half of online Americans don’t know what a privacy policy is
Pew – Aaron Smith – What Is a Privacy Policy: Research by “Joseph Turow [who studies digital marketing and privacy issues at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication] …also suggests that ordinary users don’t fully understand the scope of the data that is being collected on them — or how small amounts of data can… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Tell the FCC to Require Read-Aloud for Future Kindles and Other E Ink Devices
Via LLRX.com – Tell the FCC to Require Read-Aloud for Future Kindles and Other E Ink Devices – David H. Rothman calls attention to a pivotal upcoming event for readers everywhere: On Jan. 28, 2015 if the Federal Communications Commission makes the right choice and sticks to its past inclinations, a regulatory waiver will expire. The waiver has… Continue Reading
New digital archive will allow public to view wills of historic names
Nick Clark – The Independent: ” From George Orwell, who insisted all his manuscripts be preserved, to Charles Dickens who wanted no memorials put up to his life, history buffs can now explore the wills of some of the most influential figures of the past 150 years at the click of a mouse. The Government today announced… Continue Reading
Do Not Track is History?
New York Times: “Four years ago, the Federal Trade Commission announced, with fanfare, a plan to let American consumers decide whether to let companies track their online browsing and buying habits. The plan would let users opt out of the collection of data about their habits through a setting in their web browsers, without having… Continue Reading
Survey of Mainframe Users
BMC Mainframe Survey points to continued reliance on IBM System z – “In October, BMC released their ninth annual mainframe survey, “2014 Annual Mainframe Research Results: Bringing IT to Life Through Digital Transformation”. The survey is widely regarded as a useful insight into today’s IBM mainframe world. Let’s explore some of the findings from the BMC study,… Continue Reading
US Internet to roll out a faster, 10-gigabit fiber-optic service in Minneapolis
Adam Belz, Star Tribune: “US Internet is rolling out ultrafast Internet service in parts of Minneapolis and planning to push eastward with its high-speed, low-cost fiber network in the summer. The Minnetonka firm that offers fiber-optic service to about 30,000 households in southwest Minneapolis announced Tuesday that it will use that network to offer 10-gigabit-per-pecond Internet… Continue Reading
Exploring the Ecosystem of Third-party Security Seals
Clubbing Seals – Exploring the Ecosystem of Third-party Security Seals – Tom Van Goethem, Frank Piessens, Wouter Joosen, Nick Nikiforaki in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2014), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. “In the current web of distrust, malware, and server compromises, convincing an online consumer that a website is secure, can make the difference between a visitor and… Continue Reading
Measuring the Digital Economy – OECD
Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation: “The growing role of the digital economy in daily life has heightened demand for new data and measurement tools. Internationally comparable and timely statistics combined with robust cross-country analyses are crucial to strengthen the evidence base for digital economy policy making, particularly in a context of rapid change. This report… Continue Reading
