By Stefanie Olsen

Just yesterday I received a review copy of the book The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.

In fairness, I’ve just started reading the book and am looking forward to it. But what I’ve gleaned so far from the cited research is that kids today are so [...]

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While Skype already had unlimited calling options to land lines in the US and Canada, Skype has extended this offering to a total of 34 countries, including the majority of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Malaysia.

This includes calls to cell phones too, but only in a select handful of [...]

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Del.icio.us has just previewed a completely overhauled site design at a gathering earlier this week, flaunting an even cleaner layout and simplified format, according to Silicon Alley Insider. The company has been talking about making these changes for some time now, but at least the domain http://www.delicious.com now redirects to del.icio.us. But more [...]

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If every blog rumor were to be believed, social news site Digg would have been bought a dozen times over by now, so take the latest one with the requisite grain of salt.

TechCrunch reported early on Friday that four companies are in the running to place bids on Digg—Microsoft, Google, and two unidentified “media companies”—and [...]

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Borrowing a page from Sun’s Java playbook, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once.

Google’s version of this “write once run anywhere” concept is called OpenSocial, a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that will enable developers to create applications for social networks, blogs [...]

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Congressional action on a soon-to-expire ban on Internet access taxes may be slow going at the moment, but members of the head of the Senate Republican High Tech Task Force says he believes there are enough votes to make the law permanent. “People use the Internet to access information and purchase goods and services,” [...]

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Rumors that Apple is wearing the pants a little too often in their iPhone relationship with AT&T have received a boost, now that the wireless carrier seems to have stopped promoting the pricey phone on their main page barely a month after its June 29th launch. While we know that Apple negotiated an unprecedented deal [...]

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