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While this policy does not apply to the Google Chrome browser; the newest iteration (version 16) of Google Chrome always asks you to sign in to "your Google Account" when it starts. Even if you do not sign in to the Google Account, it takes longer to get to your webpages that you want to view. If you signed into the Google Account and they tracked you, this would likely make the browser perform less quickly. Google's search (pun intended) for advertising dollars is not only making people leery about privacy issues, but it also impacting the quality of their browser, in my opinion; as a browser's primary focus should be to display webpages (as Internet Explorer does not try to get me to buy Microsoft Word). I feel that this could hurt their business in the short run, and maybe even permanently.

I would have thought that North America and Africa would have had higher percentages of the world's Internet users. North America only had 13% of the world's Internet users, and Africa only had 6%. However, Europe, which is less populated, had 23% of the world's Internet users.

In an open letter to US president Barack Obama, Cisco's outspoken CEO John Chambers called on the president to rein in the activities of the National Security Agency (NSA) after it was revealed the agency routinely tapped Cisco network hardware being exported outside the US, before putting it back into the supply chain.

"In an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet."

When my first book, The FabYOUList, was published, my publicists recommended that I become more active on social media in order to build buzz and grow my audience. Never one to do things halfway, I quickly turned my personal Facebook page into a "Public Figure" page and signed up for Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and Google+.