14% of Americans can’t read according to a LiveScience article.
Increased illiteracy is certainly an effective way of dumbing down people and prevent them from accessing alternative information and forming independent opinion.
It is logical to draw the conclusion from the study that audio and visual media may actually increase rather than loose influence vis-à-vis the internet.
So [...]

(The picture is a collage of the Ghostery icon and a snapshot of the web bugs used by the website ReadWriteWeb)
The net is built and functions with systems of surveillence. Many websites have various methods to trace and track the behaviour of their visitors. A successful and developed method is to use web bugs for [...]

With a new political party at the rodder, big corporations make smooth adjustments to improve relations with the new rulers.
According to The Independent, Exxon cuts its support to research, which rejects Global Warming a la Al Gore.

Canon 5D VS Red camera on NRKbeta.no click image to go to part I, Part II
This spring Lumix/Panasonic is releasing G1 (AVCHD) HD still vid cam in Four Third System cameras. Hopefully small but capable.
plus online webcam sex going double spin.

Following up the demonstration of mobile phones used for shopping in German malls in the previous post, this video is from the University of Ljubljana. They have developed a system where a person can keep track on current location in a city and get information about buildings- even without the help of GPS or triangulation [...]