December 30, 2009

NetLingo Top 10 Internet Words of 2009

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NetLingo.com announces the Top 10 Internet Words of 2009! Listed in alphabetical order and chosen for their popularity, here are the Top 10 ...
December 7, 2009

Erin named Top 25 Women in Tech to Watch

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Erin Jansen, founder of NetLingo.com, has been named to the first annual AlwaysOn "Top 25 Women in Tech to Watch" List. This year...
December 3, 2009

I had an affair with Tiger Woods

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That's the punchline my girlfriend is using these days, she even wants to get t-shirts made. But despite all of the viral jokes about Ti...
December 1, 2009

It's Outrageous, it's Fun, it's a Great Gift!

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The new NetLingo book is a handy guide of every text abbreviation and chat acronym you'll ever need to know! Just in time for the holida...
November 25, 2009

Tasty Tidbits from the Tech Front

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Reduce your carbon footprint with the best holiday gift I've seen! Consumers obsessed with the "need to upgrade " are floodin...
November 24, 2009

Generation Gaps at Work: A Look at Gen Y

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Twenty-something workers may often seem to be in a "constant whir of socializing," said Jeffrey Zaslow in The Wall Street Journal ...
November 17, 2009

2009 Word of the Year: unfriend

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Unfriend has been named the "2009 Word of the Year" by the New Oxford American Dictionary , chosen from a list of finalists with ...

Americans send 4 billion texts each day

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Twice a year, the organization representing the wireless industry puts out facts and figures on how much we're using our cell phones in ...
November 3, 2009

Trick or Tweet: Tidbits from the Tech Front

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Facebook plans to keep profiles of the dead. Death doesn't erase the digital footprints that people leave in life and Facebook has anno...
October 31, 2009

Google fast flip makes news reading fun

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The newspaper industry is in trouble. Fewer people are subscribing to newspapers because instead we're getting our news online . It'...
October 19, 2009

Trouble for Teens: Harassment, Predator

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A 16-year-old girl has been arrested for online harassment in Texas. A new law that went into effect September 1, 2009 criminalizes online h...
October 9, 2009

Teenage 'sexting' Trend Keeps Growing

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Police, parents and children’s organizations are alarmed at the growing trend of “ sexting ”, where young people send explicit and indecent ...
October 6, 2009

This one's for you Martha ;-)

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Wow, what a week! I just got back from NYC where I taped a segment on The Martha Stewart Show! Can you believe it? OMG, Martha is so high-te...
September 24, 2009

The List: Text & Chat Acronyms

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It's here! NetLingo has a new iPhone app and it's called: The List: Text & Chat Acronyms (this link will launch iTunes) Whether...
September 14, 2009

Trendiest iPhone App: Social Networking - But Beware of Latest Facebook Scam!

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iPhone users are the most active social networkers of all the smart phone users, according to the quarterly Smartphone Intelligence survey r...
September 7, 2009

As Internet turns 40, Faces Mid-Life Crisis

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The Internet is facing a mid-life crisis. It’s impossible to set an exact date for the birth of the Internet . According to Stan Schroeder, ...
September 1, 2009

The millionth word in English? It's Web 2.0

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You know you are living in auspicious times when you get to ring in the year 2000 and technology such as the Internet changes your daily rou...
August 28, 2009

Text Messaging the Solar System

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It's a good week for patience, as seen in The Week, after an Australian website started transmitting text messages to Gliese 581 d, the...
August 25, 2009

It's Risky to Search for Stars in Cyberspace

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Actress Jessica Biel has overtaken Brad Pitt as the most dangerous celebrity to search for in cyberspace . According to Internet security f...
August 17, 2009

How Cyberattacks Affect Your Online Home

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Did you hear about the massive cyberattack that shut down Twitter for several hours last week and also interfered with Facebook ? Maybe yo...