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WordPress is reigning champ for blogging platforms
Not a lot of people know that CNN Political Ticker, Mashable, TechCrunch, Boing Boing, ArtsBeat, Grist, Hollywood Life, and dozens more blogs use WordPress’ Web publishing platform. Not to mention several blogs for The New York Times that also use it, including The Opinionator, Paul Krugman, and Economix.
In fact, 49 percent of the top 100 blogs in the world use WordPress, according to a new survey by Pingdom. In distant second place are custom blogs with 14 percent.
“The last few years we’ve really focused on both the usability and flexibility of WordPress, which has resulted in accelerating… Continue reading
Researcher: Internet Voting Systems are Too Insecure
Internet voting systems are inherently insecure and should not be allowed in the upcoming general elections, a noted security researcher said at the RSA Conference 2012 being held here this week.
David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and chairman of the election watchdog group Verified Voting, called on election officials around the country to drop plans to allow an estimated 3.5 million voters to cast their ballots over the Internet in this year’s general elections.
In an interview with Computerworld on Wednesday, Jefferson warned that the systems that enable such voting are far too insecure to… Continue reading
Internet use in Africa passes 139 mln mark
The number of internet users in Africa passed 139 million by 31 December 2011, up 112 percent on the same date in 2009, Arabian Business.com reported citing research from Internet World Stats. By the end of 2011, some 13.5 percent of the continent’s population was using the internet, compared with a global average of about 36 percent. Africa, which has a population of over 1.037 billion people, increased its share of the world’s internet users to 6.2 percent. According to the report, Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco topped the poll in terms of internet users, with 45 million, 21.7 million… Continue reading
Mykonos Awarded US Patent on Innovative Web Security Technology
SAN FRANCISCO–(Organization WIRE)–
Mykonos
Computer software, the primary provider of Net Intrusion Prevention Systems
(WIPS), right now announced that the United States Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO) has awarded the organization a patent on methods for
integrating safety in network communications and methods.
Mykonos Software’s breakthrough advancements in producing and
safeguarding Internet programs are altering the safety business. This
patent describes a strategy for making a secure authenticated
communication channel among client side Net application code, typically
JavaScript, and the back-end server code, above an otherwise insecure
channel (no SSL). The technique integrates session management,
authentication, integrity checking, replay protection… Continue reading
Content, Copyright & The Internet ??? The Reality
With the dust now settling right after this month’s defeat of the work to rush approval of , two controversial “anti-piracy” bills in Congress, it’s time to take stock: We noticed an exodus of political support and the derailing of SOPA and PIPA within days of the January 18 Great World wide web Blackout, a coordinated on the internet protest that prompted hundreds of 1000′s of calls to Congress and millions of petition signatures. So what just happened?
Supporters of the expenses grumble that Net businesses employed their own technologies to focus the fickle attention of users on the… Continue reading
The Anchor of Any Good SEO strategy
Let’s face it: search engine optimization has a lot of moving parts. But while keeping a handle on the all-important (and ever-changing) world of SEO is an endless challenge for content marketers, there are still plenty of simple steps you can take to increase page value in search.
One of the simplest and most overlooked examples involves the proper use of anchor text for SEO. Basically, anchor text is any hyperlinked text on a page. For example:
What is anchor text? This is anchor text!
Simple enough, right? But what many online marketers new to SEO don’t realize is… Continue reading
Internet Addiction Shows Up In the Brain
Digital thrills
There’s been a great deal of controversy above the concept of Net Addiction Condition (IAD), specially as the new DSM-V prepares to launch. Some really feel that there’s minor proof to warrant IAD as getting recognized as an actual disorder. But other individuals do. Earlier investigation has identified some changes in the brain of individuals who are hooked on the Net, and a new examine shows reductions in volume of certain regions of the brain and in its the white matter – the highways of connection between brain cells – of young people who are addicted to the… Continue reading
