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Jaron Lanier is known as "the father of virtual reality." Smithsonian Magazine calls him "the spy who came in from the cold 2.0" for his criticisms of the digital world that he helped create.

Restaurant industry sales in 2013 will total more than $660 billion, a close to 4 percent increase from 2012 and as restaurant-industry sales continue to climb yearly, it is crucial that a restaurant maintain an online presence in order to communicate with current diners, attract new customers, and build loyalty among patrons.

A study by Canada's privacy watchdog says that the Harper government's recent bid to give police more information about Internet users would have unlocked numerous revealing personal details - from web-surfing habits to names of friends.

By crunching data about a customer's buying habits, the store thinks it can pop up the things they'll need to buy Gibu Thomas, global head of mobile at Wal-Mart Stores, gave a keynote address on Wednesday at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas.

This is a 1993 screenshot from Tim Berners-Lee's Nexus browser, which was used to view and edit content on the World Wide Web.

Each of those attempts represents buyers looking for solutions at the moment of need.

China's Baidu has long dominated China's search market. But a local rival to the company--Qihoo 360--is bolstering its own search services with the help of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.

China's biggest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group announced on April 29, 2013 that it would acquire an 18 percent stake in Sina Weibo for 586 million US dollars, a deal that could reshape the country's Internet landscape.

A WWAY viewer noticed that at least as early as yesterday afternoon Berger's picture and biography had been removed from the county's website.

Social media is has become an integral part of Internet marketing. However, most businesses are not using social media to its full potential.

A former Clearfield man and a local food concessionaire was arrested along with 91 other suspects after a four-day investigation into an online sex ring in Florida, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

Crunchyroll seeks to combine streaming and shopping to create a new model for both e-commerce and streaming video content.

The idea of including standard actions within emails might be a good one - but whose standard? Actions turn email into powerful interactive mini-apps and a source of valuable information for Google.

Best Buy Co. on Tuesday reported a loss in its fiscal first quarter as it sold its stake in Best Buy Europe and works on a turnaround plan that includes cutting costs and closing some stores.

When you search across digital media to see who the power players are, there are a very few that make it to the top.

A judge ruled that the use by M and S of the 'Interflora' trademark as a Google Adword was trademark infringement The case concerned the use by M&S of the word "Interflora" as an advertising keyword leading Google internet search engine users to advertisements for M&S flower delivery services.

Google's announcement last week that it plans to launch a new quantum computing laboratory with NASA may have boosted a highly specialized and slightly obscure field of study into a more mainstream light.

Webmasters will need to be much more careful about quoting content from online German publications after a new online copyright law comes into effect in Germany on August 1. The law, which targets search engines that provide snippets, originally would have given news sites the ability to seek monetary compensation for the supposed lost revenue ... (more)

Big name music download companies like iTunes and Spotify are going to get a run for their money as Google has unveiled a new music downloading service.

WebNet Hosting Announces Sophisticated Media Hosting on the Cloud WebNet Hosting, a leading provider of fully managed dedicated servers since 2002, now offers media streaming services and advanced cloud hosting solutions to their clientele.Acting on the popularity of video sharing in content publishing and Internet marketing, WebNet Hosting now ... (more)