Stopping phenomena such as cyberbullying or analyzing the spread of rumors through the Internet are some of the objectives of Ciberguardian, an application capable of connecting to a social network and automatically extracting information from web pages.
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera have come up with a new competitor. It's called RockMelt, and it's a new browser devised by the founder of the now-defunct Netscape, Marc Andreessen, which aims to offer better interaction with social networks.
After studying Twitter messages for 10 months, a team of scientists from Indiana University (USA) has concluded that messages from the popular microblogging service can be used to predict movements in the Dow Jones index.
The number of Internet users will exceed 2 billion this year, reaching almost a third of the world's population (6.9 billion). However, developing countries need to increase access to this vital tool for economic growth.
Only 28% of Spaniards participate in social network websites such as Facebook, Tuenti, MySpace and Twitter, below the average for the European Union (35%). Spain is, together with Germany, the Member State with the highest percentage of citizens who never connect to a social network, according to the latest Eurobarometer data.
An investigation by Yahoo! Research and published in PNAS magazine reveals that the Internet makes it possible to predict the collective behavior of consumers in the near future and to know in advance the success that the launch of movies or video games will have.
An original "race" between ten homing pigeons and their ADSL service has served a British citizen to demonstrate that in his locality it takes less time to deliver information through these birds than through the Internet.
The way of learning has changed. The incorporation of new technologies in colleges and universities has opened the doors to radically different forms of teaching. Esperanza G. Molina has returned to school to discover the most original. And his report has won the Accenture Award for Journalism 2010.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
