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Researchers have warned that the addiction that young people have with technology is having a disruptive effect on their learning. The effects of modern gadgets this were seen by pupils with poor spelling, poor levels of concentration, encouraged plagiarism and disrupted lessons. Out of 267 pupils surveyed aged 11 to 18, the report found that 63% felt addicted to the internet and 53% to their mobile phones. On average pupils were spending between one to two hours a day on social networking sites, 30% said they sued the internet between 1 and 2 hours and 26% spending unto six hours on it.

UK Psychologists have found that there is a strong link between depression and heavy use of the internet. According to a study in the journal Psychopathology, 1.2% of people who were surveyed were found to be internet addicts and were also suffering from depression. The team from Leeds university however couldn’t say for definite that one was linked to the other as many of the internet users did not suffer mental health problems.
The findings were based on 1,319 responses to a questionnaire set up on line via links to social networking sites. The respondents averaged a age of 21 answered a wide range of questions to assess if they suffered from depression.

Dick Durbin, a senator from the United States of America has approached 30 technology companies for information in advance of a hearing he has set up on Human Rights practices in China. This comes as Google makes an announcement to stop censoring search results in China as it discovered that their systems had been broken into by hackers in China. The internet search engine found that it had some of its intellectual property stolen but also some security breaches of the Gmail accounts of some of the activist supporting human rights in China. The senator asked companies to give details of their businesses and any steps they will implement to ensure that their products don’t penalise human right activists set by the Chinese government.

A whistleblower website called wikileaks has closed operations due to financial problems. The site allows people to publish uncensored information anonymously has now hit money flow crisis. Reports claim that running costs including staff payments stood at £377,00 whilst only being able to raise funds of £81,000. the site became popular due to it’s ability to publish information that newspapers and traditional media could not. The website claims that it’s a non-profit organisation and relies on donations from what it calls human right campaigners. Although the site has won international awards for its work from the Economist and Amnesty International it has also fought more than a 100 legal challenges. The site deemed useful due to it’s power of putting up unedited documents up.

Twitter have identified a number of ‘torrent’ sites that have been set up on the internet to specially skim usernames and passwords. The sites come across as index of links to TV, film and music files but scammers are then able to use the data to get on to sites such as Twitter as many people use the same logon for multiple services. Twitter itself have reset the accounts of those which have been effected and have issued a statement encouraging users to use different passwords and login details for different accounts. This advice is echoed by experts in the security field who say the problem is also effecting the banking sites.

The start of this tournament was marred with the attack on the Togo team bus which left two dead and many injured. With this shocking attack many thought that the tournament would have to be canceled in case any more attacks happened as many where fearing for their own safety.

Never the less after this attack no more was reported and the tournament was well under way many of the favorites were knocked out including Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Cameroon.

This makes way for a final between Ghana and Egypt. Many hoping for Ghana to win this year after the current holders Egypt have won this consecutive times.

Transfer Deadline Nears

The January Transfer Deadline nears and all Premiership and Championships are battling amongst each other to strengthen their squads this is a pivotal stage in the season and with many clubs suffering with loads of injuries it is important that they try and replace these players with new signings even if it is just loan moves.

The team i think in the most trouble is Portsmouth stuck at the bottom of the Premiership they have had their transfer ban lifted allowing them to do business but the questing is who is going to be willing to join the club knowing all the financial difficulties.

Over the past weekend the online world has been writing and blogging about the news of john Terry’s affair. Apparently Terry had been having an affair with his team mate’s girlfriend, sick i no.

What makes things worse is that Terry is married and has twins to his current wife this story was leaked over Christmas and was meant to go public however Terry went to the courts to try and get the story suppressed however this was over ruled.

As the days are going on more news is coming to light with the latest that Wayne Bridges now ex girlfriend fell pregnant to Terry who had an abortion.

As we are all aware Apple like to stay ahead of the game and introduce new technology to use as shown from their laptops and mobile phones.

Apple has now launched their new product the “ipad” which is supposed to be the new revolutionary product of the year. This will allow you to browse the web, read, send emails, enjoy photos, watching videos, play games, reading e-books, and much more.

The ipad comes with a high-resolution Multi-Touch display which is great for watching music videos and reading. The new product will be hitting the stores soon and has a price of $499.

With the Recession many people invested their money into Search Engine Optimization as a way of driving more traffic and conversions to their site. My question is whether 2010 is going to be a big year for the industry on first thoughts I have to think it will be with Internet Marketing being bigger that radio and newspapers I think it is as strong as Television now with so many people having access to desktops.

So what are the Advantages of SEO? I understand it can increase conversions and traffic to a website as well as add more structure to it and help improve the rankings for your selected keywords.