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This article should be of some use to those doing a paper on sexting

An article I plan on discussing in my final paper. Tells how internet users could be banned over illegal downloads.

Here is a Blog on how facebook is replacing Face to face interaction

Good article about communicating with college students

This Valentine's Day article relates how a NY bakery kept business brisk during recent bad weather. Using Facebook and Twitter to remind customers of the hot drinks they serve and offering coupons helped out. The write-up also mentions a change in marketing Spot Dessert took by hiring a PR firm that would lead them into the social media as part of their advertising and communications with customers. People who frequent there are encouraged to join the fun by adding photos of their food or answering questions posted on the site. The general manager of the bakery is quoted as saying, "we wanted to create a personality around our brand." After reading this article, my response is "Mission Accomplished!"

This article shows just how far behind the United States is in boradband quality compared to countries such as Japan and South Korea.

It is amazing how far phone services have come. The fact that you can download from 5 Mbps to 12 Mbps over you phone. That is faster than many high speed internet providers

A quick set of facts about the internet and how it started.

This is an interview between and ABC and Aaron Smith, a research analyst for PEW, regarding PEW report's findings on how people use the internet as a distraction from the recession.

This is a great article on Internet Statistics throughout the world.

This is a great article on Internet Statistics throughout the world.

Interesting read and statistical analysis of how race factors into internet usage and e-commerce businesses.

This article, which is authored by a member of the Asia Future Internet Forum, looks at some of the current mobile internet trends, and also addresses some of the potential problems. It gives the author's proposal for an alternative mobile network design. While I don't expect anyone to read all the fine print in this (some of it is IT oriented and somewhat confusing), the big picture is what I find interesting-- people have so much faith and support for mobile internet that they want to develop some sort of international standards for it. People taking initiative such as this will really have a big impact on how the mobile network is shaped in the future!

Social Media can expose Identity, Financial Information,etc. How much information is out there and is dangerous through social media.

This article has information on creating HTML Codes, passwords, etc.

This article talks about the future power of cell phones and how they will replace PCs.

This article offers an online class in Chinese via a MP3 player.

This article from the New York Times talks about what people use their smartphone for. The top reasons are games and weather. This article is very recent and talks about the most common apps used within 30 days.

This article describes people becoming less connected to communities becuase of technology usage.

Here is an interesting article on how people are becoming less connected to communities becuase of technology usage.