In 1700, barely a decade after the invention of the modern newspaper, the first matrimonial service was created. These services ran ads on behalf of single men and women who were desperate to find a good husband or wife. At the time, being single past 21 carried with it a deep stigma and turning...
The Digital Millennium Copyright ACT (DMCA) is one of the best-known and most-controversial pieces of legislation passed in recent years. It has had a greater impact on the Web than virtually any other piece of legislation and is largely responsible for much of the Web we see today. One of the...
Though Nigerian email scams may be the butt of late-night comedian jokes, online fraud is still alive and well. Scams involving individuals, such as identity theft and financial scams, cost their victims nearly 240 million in 2007 over four times as much as they did in 2004. Sadly, the numbers...
No one needs to be told how bad this economy is. Every week it seems thousands more are losing their jobs while countless more are having to scale back their rates or the hours that they work. Incomes everywhere are being choked, causing families to cut corners and miss bills. This has led many...
Even as little as seven years ago, trying to obtain video on the Internet, much less watching a movie, was a complete nightmare. With much of the Internet still on dialup, it could take hours to download even a three minute music video, days for a feature-length film. Furthermore, the video-watching...
Viruses, spyware and other kinds of unwanted software (collectively referred to as Malware) have not made the news headlines in the past few years, with the possible exception of the "Conflicker" worm earlier this year. Part of this is because they are no longer "new", a key element to being...
A service charge is any additional fee that is tacked on to an existing bill. In this service oriented society, one will definitely encounter service charges for practically anything. There is a lot of talk going on about the definition and appropriateness of a service charge, but in general, a...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg is expected to release details regarding a new email feature at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Fransisco, California, today. The new Facebook Email Service will function much like Google's Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail in a web based format available to over 500 million...
Marketers believe that "Free" is the most powerful word in the English language. Whether you're trying to sell cereal or computers, the word "free" is the most compelling thing you can put into your advertisements. Love is no different a service in that regard. Though the Web is famous for its...
While web design involves creating a website, web hosting involves finding space for it. Web hosting is like the real estate aspect of the Internet. The companies rent out the tremendous space on their hard drives, which are far more powerful and massive than those found in the typical user’s home...
