Majority of Young People Online for No Reason
A recent study from the Pew Research Center shows what everyone on the Net already knew: Most of the surfers are just there for no particular reason….just there. Hanging out on the Internet has replaced time worn tradition of hanging out at the mall and the possibility of accidentally learning something in the process. The Pew Research Center is aptly named because this study really reeks.
The Web, for so many, seems to have replaced the mall, the bar, and the street corner as the place to go just to hang out and wait for something to happen.
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Mammoths May Be Roaming the World in Five Years
Nope, not another sequel to the Jurassic Park franchise, but real flesh and blood clones that would make even John Hammond proud. Japanese scientists are working with new DNA recovered in Siberia that is capable of producing a Wooly Mammoth clone. Maybe Velociraptors will be next.
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Facebook to Host Online Casinos?
British Newspaper/magazine the Daily Mail is citing eGaming Review that Facebook has entered into negotiations with online gambling concerns to open virtual casinos on Facebook. The location for a startup operation is the U.K. simply due to the attitude toward gambling there and more favorable gambling laws.
"There is still a lot of work needed to be done, not least what percentage of revenues gambling companies would have to give away to Facebook and the issue of age verification."
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Rent Your Kids Christmas Toys Online This Year?
Well, here's a twist on Christmas many have thought about before, but afraid to give it a try for fear of being called names worse than Scrooge or Grinch. Toygaroo is offering rental plans for your kid's toys this year. The decision to be called dirty names by your kids will be your choice over going bankrupt buying toys that may or may not be played with more than several weeks. Go ahead Grinch, take your best shot.
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Augmented Reality Lets Shoppers Interact With Dinosaurs
After watching the Jurassic Park trilogy, have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in the age of the dinosaurs? Since we probably aren't going to be genetically creating dinosaurs anytime soon, National Geographic may have just provided an interesting new way to see dinosaurs: in a shopping mall.
Live Augmented Reality for National Geographic Channel / UPC from Appshaker Ltd on Vimeo.
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Piracy is Just Fine, Swiss Government Says
The Swiss government is taking a pragmatic approach to the piracy issue within their country. A Swiss government report finds that about one third of the Swiss regularly pirate from the Internet and spend the money they save on other forms of entertainment, many times from the same companies they pirate from. So basically the Swiss are calling it all a wash and keeping the laws concerning piracy at a very low level. The logic here has a far less amount of holes in it than their cheese.
Switzerland already has very lax piracy laws, and that's not going to change any time soon. Perhaps studios and record labels aren't losing quite as much as they would have us believe; they're just not making as much as they would like.
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Ice Cream Sandwich Coming to an Android Phone Near You?
The hope is there along with testing to make it happen. Google is now running internal tests on the availability of ICS migrating from the original Galaxy Nexus device to the Samsung Nexus S and then on down the Android line in the future.
"It's looking great," one Google engineer noted on Google+.
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Apple's Internal Employee Social Media Policies Leaked
Working for Apple has its perks, I'm sure, but exercising your First Amendment rights take a serious beating in the process. All corporations have some sort of guidelines with its employees concerning referencing the business, but Apple seems to have written the definitive (and inferred) book on the subject. The timing of the leaked employee policies is unfortunate for Apple, coming on the heels of an employee dismissal over disputed media policies.
In this manner, any written, evidential proof of employer or brand-bashing can be viewed as a means of breaking the business conduct policy.
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South Park Console Game to Debut Next Year
THQ announced on Thursday the upcoming release of South Park: The Game for the second half of 2012 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC platforms. To avoid a repeat of the franchise's first attempt at creating a game format for South Park, this game is developed by Obsidian Entertainment, the outfit responsible for Neverwinter Nights and will be a role playing game. If you have ever wanted to be part of the South Park experience, your chance is coming.
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Mall Has Kids Skype Santa Instead of Visiting in Person
In a Toronto mall, Santa is becoming the Skype Santa for the kids this year instead of the normal lap sitting Santa of yesteryear. Could this new incarnation of Santa catch on elsewhere in this digital age? Visualize doing everything for Christmas from your computer: You can buy all of your presents already wrapped online and have them delivered to your door, send all of your Xmas cards electronically, and now, have your kids visit personally with Santa via Skype. Scrooge would approve: Bah! Humbug.
Marketing director Meredith Vlitas says the reason for Santa's new Skype account is that the mall wanted to create an experience that would be more fun for parents and their kids
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Apple Confirms No Further Support for Carrier IQ
Responding to the controversy about privacy concerns over Carrier IQ software, Apple has made it clear that it no longer supports the software and will be completely removed from future iPhones.
"We never recorded keystrokes, messages or any other personal information for diagnostic data and have no plans to ever do so."
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