Sunday, June 19, 2011

TECH.BLORGE.com

TECH.BLORGE.com


Facebook growth starts to wane

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Facebook has been growing for many years now, often at incredibly fast rate. But as it approaches an estimated 700 million users, that growth appears to be waning. Facebook has built an incredible userbase numbering in the hundreds of millions. Officially Mark Zuckerberg and co. state they have something over 500 million users, but unofficially [...] Related posts:
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Microsoft questions cybercrime figures

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Microsoft has challenged the way many studies estimate overall levels of cybercrime. It says such figures often come from flawed methodologies that are liable to carry a catastrophic margin of error. In its own research paper by staffers Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley, the company puts forward three reasons why it believes such figures should [...] Related posts:
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