From The Wall Street Journal, Saturday, April 16, 2011, the Feds are filing charges against large gambling sites that are operating from foreign soil. They are hiding credit card payments from gamblers by showing the purchases to be flowers, jewelry, etc. The U.S. authorities are taking a hard line against these sites and seized their domain names.
This is the story about the psycho killer who found his victims through Craigslist. Thought it would be a great story to share since we are talking about online classifieds. Also, there is a movie over this story that is a must watch. This story sums up the story which will make you want to watch the movie.
April 18, 2011 Wall Street Journal has this article regarding the changes about to happen for those that are regular online poker players. Some lost money that had built up in their accounts and others are wondering how they will fill their time.
In our discusssion of print vs Internet, this article from April 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal brings up the fact that not just news is affected by this. Large publishing houses are being by-passed in favor of self-published titles. The article states that 15 of the top 50 digital best-sellers at Amazon are those priced at $5 or less.
The Wall Street Journal published this article by Amy Marcus on Monday, April 25, 2011. By connecting patients who are suffering from ALS on Facebook, they are able to share information on treatments that work and those that do not. This particular study had to do with lithium.
This article talks about the many benefits to video conferencing for businesses. Companies are using video conferencing to save time and most importantly money. Businesses are moer globalized as a result of using video conferencing.
This is an article which discusses campuses in Massachusetts that want to have emergency alerts sent to students after the attacks on the Virginia Tech campus.
Interesting article IT network and security news, posted on eweek.com. This breach at Sony made headlines and the article suggests 10 things that we as computer users should be aware of and suggestions of steps we should take.