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Google and Facebook continue to dominate digital ad sales

March 14, 2017

  ou can read the full report from eMarketer, but here’s a summary of the numbers: US digital ad spending will reach $83.00 billion in 2017  an increase of 15.9%, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast […]

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Web creator Tim Berners Lee on problems such as fake news, privacy and false political advertising

March 12, 2017

The World Wide Web turned 28 on Sunday and, for its birthday, it’s creator Sir Tim Berners Lee, wrote an open letter descriptively titled Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor.

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Bill would strip privacy protections from California students and teachers

March 10, 2017

The legislation, Assembly Bill 165, would “end the application of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to a local educational agency, as defined, or an individual acting for or on behalf of a local educational agency.” The bill defines educational agencies as county offices of education, school districts and charter schools. […]

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How to recognize and fix the “soap opera effect” on your TV

March 7, 2017

It’s hard to describe but you know it when you see it. If movies and fiction TV shows on your new HDTV look more like soap operas, then you might be experiencing the “soap opera […]

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Facebook launches ‘disputed’ news tag and lets users report suspected fake news

March 5, 2017

In December, Facebook said that it would start flagging “disputed” stories in an attempt to warn users about fake news and they have just launched that feature. […]

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Facebook beefs up suicide-prevention tools

March 2, 2017

In 2010, I attended two meetings with Facebook staff over how the service could help prevent suicides. One meeting was at the company’s headquarters and was attended by representatives from several tech companies, including Yahoo and […]

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Amazon explains the glitch that crippled sites on Wednseday

March 2, 2017

Amazon Web Services has explained what happened that caused numerous web sites and other Internet services to go down on Wednesday. It was basically, as CNET News phrased it “a typo.” In a blog post, […]

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