activity

News.blog: Google to turn over YouTube user activity

News On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that Google must turn over YouTube user activity -- videos watched, IP addresses and usernames. Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube's sensitive user data as a result of the copyright infringement...

Tags: case, google, order, youtube

4 July 2008, 9:01

Searching becomes No. 2 Web activity

News Using a search engine is now the number two activity for Web users, research has found. The report also found that reading the news is now the third most popular Web activity. Despite the increase in traffic, searching has yet to catch up with the...

22 November 2005, 9:26

News.blog: Notches in your bedpost now online

News Want to keep track of all your sexual activity? First, to give you a secure place to record your activity. If you like, the system will even let you know your probability of contracting a sexually transmitted disease, by comparing your activity to...

6 September 2006, 9:21

News.blog: Facebook adds Mini-Feed comments

News Facebook has made it possible for members to leave comments on each others' 'mini-feeds' of activity, according to an announcement on Wednesday from the social network. The Mini-Feed, introduced in 2006 to initial shock and eventual acceptance, is...

Tags: friends, activity, feeds, feed

26 June 2008, 8:44

Solar flares could disrupt power and satellites

News The sun unleashed one of the largest solar flares on record on Wednesday, and further activity could disrupt communications links and electrical power grids. Global Positioning System and TV satellite reception can be impacted by activity from the...

9 September 2005, 8:43

Sober worm hits new heights

News Sophos says the mass-mailing worm accounted for 5.4 percent of all email the company saw over the weekend and 84 percent of virus activity. That represents an increase compared with Friday, when Sophos said the worm accounted for 4.65 percent of...

10 May 2005, 8:14

UK users spend 50 days a year online

News A YouGov survey of 15,323 users has found surfing the Internet is the most popular activity for people who use broadband. Entertainment, such as radio, TV and making phone calls, is the next most popular activity.

9 August 2006, 9:58

Videogame violence stimulates aggression in brain

News In the study, 13 males played the first-person-shooter Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror while in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) system, which measures brain activity. The researchers said the pattern of brain activity can be...

13 October 2005, 10:33

Stop reading this headline and get back to work

News It was cited by 44.7 per cent of respondents as their primary time-wasting activity, followed by socialising with co-workers (23.4 per cent) and conducting personal business (6.8 per cent). It's interesting to note that the Internet was cited as...

12 July 2005, 10:06

ISPs versus the zombies

News But taking more responsibility to protect Internet traffic would mean monitoring activity on their networks more closely -- a move that has implications for customer privacy and for their bottom line.

20 July 2005, 9:49

Podcast fans favour Apple and Star Trek

News Emailing is still the most popular online activity at 92.7 per cent, with news reading (71.5) and weather checking (63.9) in second and third place, respectively. Compared to those statistics, downloading podcasts is still a relatively unpopular...

13 July 2006, 10:19

Hyperactive Bob gets fries to go

News Instead, Hyperactive Bob combines machine intelligence with human activity. A burger joint located near a school might see a spurt of activity in the afternoon, while one near a retirement community might have a rush on chicken sandwiches in the...

27 March 2007, 10:30

Google automates personalised search

News The search history feature, launched in April, lets people browse through a timeline of their past Google searches to see the level of activity on any given day, the number of times a user has visited a Web page and the last time it was viewed.

29 June 2005, 9:37

Google library search raises privacy issues

News But even if that service doesn't currently link personally identifiable data with searches and other activity or closely track individual user activity, that doesn't preclude them from doing so in the future, particularly if the US government...

20 June 2005, 9:34

Oceans could see next gold rush

News Scientists place a sensor in a tin and then drag it around the ocean looking for evidence of seismic activity. Regional governments will need to create laws to supervise this activity, should it occur, said Rona.

7 December 2005, 9:38