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With the supply of IPv4 Internet addresses nearly depleted, the Internet Society is planning a global day of events to promote the transition to IPv6. »
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 STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Pictures of a house in India, a food cupboard in New Zealand and someone eating breakfast in Sweden were among the first of thousands of photographs sent to an Internet project to capture a day in the life of people all over the world on Tuesday.
Reuters: Internet News » | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Not too long ago, Web coding was the rarified realm of computer geeks, but a new crop of entrepreneurs is making this valuable computer skill available to just about anyone with an inclination to learn.
Reuters: Internet News » | If a day without Wikipedia was a bother, think bigger. In this plugged-in world, we would barely be able to cope if the entire Internet went down in a city, state or country for a day or a week.
Sure, we'd survive. People have done it. Countries have, as Egypt did last year during the anti-government protests. And most of civilization went along until the 1990s without the Internet. But now we're so intertwined socially, financially and industrially that suddenly going back to the 1980s would hit the world as hard as a natural disaster, experts say.
No email, Twitter or Facebook. No buying online. No stock trades. No just-in-time industrial shipping. No real-time tracking of diseases. It's gotten so that not just the entire Internet but individual Web sites such as Google are considered critical infrastructure, experts said.
"Nobody would die, but there would be a major hassle," said computer security expert Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure in Helsinki, Finland.
If an Internet outage lasted more than a day or two, the financial hit would be huge, with mass unemployment, said Ken Mayland, a former chief bank economist and president of ClearView Economics. Eugene Spafford, director of Purdue University's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, worries about bank runs and general panic.
Psychologically, too, it could be wrenching.
"I think it's easier to get off heroin," said Lisa Welter of New York City, who weaned herself for a month last year from just the social aspects of the Internet -- she still paid bills online -- and felt as if she was "living in a cave."
"There would be a sense of loss: What would I do with my time?" said Kimberly Young, a psychologist who directs the Center for Internet Addiction and Recovery.
On Wednesday, certain Web sites, most prominently... newsfactor.com » |  AFP - Mobile operators in Uzbekistan suspended Internet and messaging services for the duration of nationwide university entrance exams Tuesday in an apparent bid to prevent cheating, a report said.
Yahoo! News: Internet News » | Mashable - Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Yahoo! News: Internet News » | Investors pushed shares of Internet radio broadcaster Pandora higher on the first day of trading Wednesday, another sign of the intense interest in IPOs of money-losing companies.
The company, which broadcasts automated music playlists to PCs and mobile devices over the Internet, saw its shares jump 8.9% to $17.42 a share in its initial public offering.
Pandora's first day of trading, though, is serving as a microcosm of the fleeting speculation some think is pervading the stock market when it comes to IPOs, especially of Internet companies.
Pandora's shares rocketed out of the gate, jumping as high as $26 a share, for a 63% rise, according to the New York Stock Exchange. But buying interest dried up and the gain shriveled to 8%. Pandora, though, ended higher even after the company boosted its initial public offering price to $16, up from the already raised expected price range of $10 to $12 a share.
The rise and fall of Pandora's IPO came amid a rough day for the broad stock market.
Yet the whipsaw trading in Pandora shows how investors are allowing their excitement to trump reason, says Francis Gaskins of IPOdesktop.com. "Overenthusiastic" investors are buying stock in Internet IPOs such as Pandora, and "traders are saying 'fine, you can have it,'" he says. The company reported a loss of $1.8 million in its most recent fiscal year ended January 2011.
And healthy receptions of IPOs such as Pandora and professional social-networking site LinkedIn, which rose 109% on its first day last month, mask deeper struggles in the IPO market. The FTSE Renaissance Capital IPO composite index, which tracks the performance of recent IPOs, is down 2.9% this year, lagging behind the S&P 500's 0.6% gain. Wednesday's other IPO, energy-exploration company Compressco, closed at $19 a share, below its $20-a-share offering price. And LinkedIn closed Wednesday at... newsfactor.com » | NewsFactor - Mark your calendars: Wednesday, June 8, is World IPv6 Day. On that date, the Internet Society will oversee the first global trial for the new Internet protocol. Yahoo! News: Internet News » | AP - Could the Internet mean the end of snow days? Some schools think so, and they are experimenting with ways for students to do lessons online during bad weather, potentially allowing classes to go on during even the worst blizzard. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |  Семинар «SPB-IX IPv6 Day», приуроченный к Международному дню IPv6 пройдет в Санкт-Петербурге 2 июня 2011 г. Мероприятие будет проходить в КЦ «ПетроКонгресс» (ул. Лодейнопольская, д.5, 3 минуты от м. Чкаловская). Организатор семинара – Санкт-Петербургский Internet Exchange (SPB-IX). Читать дальше → habrahabr.ru » | Mashable - Internet trolls have a rep for being semi-misogynistic basement dwellers whose girlfriends require an air pump to get ready for a date. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |  AFP - USA Today on Friday announced a major restructuring that will trim 130 jobs at the national news publication as it reshapes itself to better fit Internet Age lifestyles.
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