The number of people whose work is touched by the internet these days is hard to imagine. Many of us have been working full-time online for a while, but for the vast majority of people online today that's not the case. Here at RWW we communicate with people with a wide range of experience working online every day.

I put my phone number on my personal blog, and I write for the 11th most linked to blog on the web. I get maybe 3 unwanted phone calls a week as a result. That means that just about anyone else should be able to put their phone number and IM on…

Described as One of the most prevalent pieces of malware in the last three years,? the Downloader-UA.h trojan is running wild on P2P networks. But thanks to its system strength - and the work of torrent site moderators - such outbreaks are shrugged off by BitTorrent.

I use shareaza for some of my downloads and I see these things all the time. There is usually 15-20 different files that pop up in any type of search, and I mean any search. If you do a search for say, Matt, some of the first and best hosted…

The admins of isoHunt are fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the MPAA, arguing that it and other BitTorrent tracker sites should be treated no differently than a search engine. After all, isoHunt only provides links to content'just like Google.

No matter which way the ruling goes, this could prove to be an important milestone for the MPAA's fight against BitTorrent sites. The MPAA has a few notches in its bedpost, but those have come from settlements which resulted in shuttered…

Microsoft Corp.’s attempt to take over Yahoo Inc. has become so tortured it may help Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc. grow stronger, undermining Microsoft’s main reason for pursing the deal in the first place.

Under this reported scenario, News Corp. would contribute the Internet's top social network, MySpace.com, and some cash in a Yahoo takeover. The proposed deal would put three of the Web's most popular sites — Yahoo, MySpace and…

No Microhoo after all?

Some of you guys posting on here are morons and don’t have a damn clue about business. This isn’t about Microsoft being evil. Yahoo just literally signed their death sentence and in the process screwed over their shareholders….

A new study from researchers at Duke University & Harvard University challenges the popular assumption that most technology entrepreneurs are college kids launching businesses from their dorm rooms.

The top ten schools awarding these entrepreneurs’ most advanced degrees were Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the…

Don’t let hooligans handle your hardware. Here are eight ways to keep your notebook from being pinched–or to get it back if it is stolen.

Don't let hooligans handle your hardware. Here are eight ways to keep your notebook from being pinched–or to get it back if it is stolen.

Aaron Wall explains how Google can make or break a business, and shares some tips and statistics that will help you better understand Google's business model.

For the keyword credit cards you can search Google to see what the search results look like, and look at Compete.com's keyword destination results. Notice how Compete.com shows the keyword share that each site gets…that is the percentage of…

Facebook Awareness…… you gotta be careful……. BBC exposes a fatal flaw in popular social networking program.

emp_load.getEmpEmbeddedParams(”emp_7376738″); The BBC's technology programme Click has exposed a security flaw in the social networking site Facebook which could compromise privacy. Spencer Kelly reports. Identity 'at…

Dont keep sending shouts about the same topic to everyone. Please try and keep track of who youve shouted, so they dont get 100 shouts about the same item.

2. Wherever possible, serious Digg users will always respond to a shout. But just occasionally, the article in question will be offensive, or will be diametrically opposed to our personal beliefs. Even if you send us 10 shouts we won’t…

Year on year, Internet visits to Twitter.com are up 8 fold. In the past three months, visits have more than doubled and traffic continues to climb, up 60% in the past month.

Whilst Twitter continues to be a niche website, it also continues to enjoy strong growth. Clickstream data helps us to understand that this growth is both from new users and repeat visitors. This is good news for Twitter and we'll continue to…

This story takes a quick look at the changes made to the new iMacs.

Hmmm, interesting. Good changes, I am glad to see the prices aren’t moved around too much.

Keep your sites off of the search giant’s hit list. Google is one of the Internet’s darlings, universally loved by just about everyone. Everyone, that is, but webmasters who’ve had their domain networks wiped from Google’s results.

At some point, the mysterious workers behind http://eval.google.com are going to visit your site. Here's how to be ready for them.

Google is now talking about using computers to analyze the stuff in photos, and using that to associate it in a ranked way with keyword queries. In effect, theyre talking about PageRank for images

I’m frustrated that this is a recycled press release, not journalism. Markoff in the Times managed to at least get a perspective quote from Munjal at Riya/Like. This post is just a reprint of what Google pushed out to the world, and I…