Category «Wireless Web»

Pew Internet and American Life Project Survey of Wireless Internet Access

“The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a report that 34% of internet users have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else. The report profiles these wireless users and describes their intensive use of the internet, especially in exchanging emails …

Subjects: E-Mail, Internet, Knowledge Management, Wireless Web

Web Capacity Encounters Limits With Increased Global Demand for Rich Media

Deloitte Telecommunications Predictions 2007 (TMT Trends 2007) – “This study examines 10 emerging developments sure to make 2007 another eventful year for the telecommunications industry”: 1. “Reaching the limits of cyberspace—growth in video traffic on the “superhighway” means the Internet is approaching gridlock. 2. The net neutrality debate needs resolution—the Internet, fundamental freedom for all …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Wireless Web

New on LLRX.com for January 2007

Table of Contents for LLRX.com – January 15, 2007 issue: Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide, by Sabrina I. Pacifici The Impact of Social Networking Tools and Guidelines to Use Them, by LaJean Humphries The Blog – Another Tool in Your Arsenal, by Janet Peros Faulkner’s Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys: How the Web …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries, Marketing, Wiki, Wireless Web

Study Reveals One in 10 Respond to Fraudulent 'Phishing' Messages

Will Knight at New Scientist reports the research by Professor Markus Jakobsson and grad student Jacob Ratkiewicz, Indiana University, indicates “…one in 10 internet users may be lured into handing over sensitive personal information such as a credit card number, by fraudulent “phishing” emails…” and “that some survey participants may not have realised that they …

Subjects: Cybercrime, ID Theft, Privacy, Wireless Web

FTC Staff Report on Municipal Provision of Wireless Internet

FTC press release, October 10, 2006: “Improving consumer access to broadband Internet service is an important goal for federal, state, and local governments. The possibility of competitive risks arising from municipal participation in wireless Internet service, however, calls for a careful analysis by policymakers considering if, and to what extent, a municipality should involve itself …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Wireless Web

Washington Post Sites Go Mobile

As reported by Mike Shields: “Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive has launched made-for-mobile versions of the Web sites for three of its largest properties, including WashingtonPost.com, Newsweek.com and Slate.com as part of a new mobile services initiative at the company. The sites are available free of charge for any users that have a Web-enabled handset by logging onto …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines, Wireless Web

Researchers Announce "Phoolproof Phishing Prevention"

Press release: Carnegie Mellon CyLab researchers create new system to address phishing fraud [ZDNet] Phoolproof Phishing Prevention – Bryan Parno, Cynthia Kuo, Adrian Perrig: “Phishing attacks exploit a user’s inability to distinguish legitimate websites from spoofed websites. Unfortunately, humans are ill-suited for performing the security checks necessary for secure site identification. Phoolproof Phishing Prevention uses …

Subjects: Cybercrime, ID Theft, Privacy, Wireless Web

New on LLRX.com

And you thought gadgets were only for the kitchen: The Return, by Brian Neale, Roger Skalbeck, Susan Skyzinski and Barbara Fullerton And you thought gadgets were only for the kitchen: The Future, by Brian Neale, Roger Skalbeck, Susan Skyzinski and Barbara Fullerton Writing Justice Blackmun, by Linda Greenhouse Statement of Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, The …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries, Marketing, Recommended Books, Wireless Web