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LARCHWOOD, IA – Online gambling, mainly poker, used to be quite popular. However, most of it was illegal and the federal government has shut down many of the websites. But users are still finding ways around the law. Now, Iowa is looking at taking a different approach to deal with it. A bill currently in [...]

February 22, 2012, 6:22 AM EST By Mark Lee Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — Tencent Holdings Ltd. is China’s biggest Internet company, with 430 million users. Even so, it is only No. 6 in attracting advertising because its customers are considered students and farmers without much discretionary income. Enter the smartphone. China’s online advertising market expanded [...]

5:51 pm February 21, 2012, by Christopher Seward Comcast already wants to provide you with cable TV, phone, movie and Internet services, and now it wants to add video-on-demand via the Web, the company announced Tuesday. According to Variety, Comcast’s Xfinity Streampix will compete  against Netflix, which is the No. 1 online video rental service. [...]

irishtimes.com – Last Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 13:37The survey of 100 cities was conducted by internet security firm Norton and research group Sperling’s BestPlaces. EOIN BURKE-KENNEDY Dublin has been ranked in the top ten of European cities with the highest number of cybercrime risk factors. The survey of 100 cities, conducted by internet security [...]

Every time there is another public uproar over an Internet company collecting, using or sharing consumer data, lawmakers want to point fingers. But first, they should look in the mirror. Continue Reading Congress has been mulling general online privacy laws for longer than Google and Facebook have been dot-coms. But none has passed muster. “It’s [...]

SIOUX CITY, IA – If you’re up for a game of poker, you’ll most likely call up some friends and meet at your house to shuffle up and deal, but in the state of Iowa poker players could soon have an online option. The Iowa Senate’s looking at a bill that would legalize internet poker, but [...]

Last week, Google scrambled to deflect criticism that it tracked the online activities of users’ of Apple’s Safari Web browser against their wishes, by circumventing an anti-tracking mechanism. Tuesday, Google lashed out at Microsoft in response to allegations that the search giant has been doing much the same to users of Windows Internet Explorer browser. [...]

You are here: Home Page » Over The Top Video » 40 billion online videos viewed by U.S. Internet users in January, says comScore <!– –> Feb 22, 2012 3:36 PM               A video is defined as any streamed segment of audiovisual content, including both progressive downloads and live streams. For [...]