Want to fly private? A company called BlackJet is looking to bring private aviation -- normally reserved for the ultra-wealthy -- to the masses. At Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, BlackJet CEO Dean Rotchin spoke with CNNMoney aboard a private jet known as the Challenger 300. It seats eight passengers and would normally cost upwards of $20,000 for a coast-to-coast flight. Using BlackJet, a customer can book a seat on the plane for $3,500. It's not cheap, but it's far less than the going price for the whole plane. Rotchin, who has been in the private plane industry for 15 years, hopes to pioneer this "semi-private" class of flying. His company charters flights from carriers like JetSelect and sells the high-end seats individually. "The airlines are creating affordability by selling seats," Rotchin says. "We created affordability by taking the seat model used by the airlines and applying it for the first time to private aviation."

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Facebook and Google are battling it out to dominate your smartphone time and, for now, Facebook is winning.

According to the latest stats from comScore, Facebook was the most popular mobile app in the United States in 2012. The Google Maps app held the top position until October, when Apple rolled out its latest mobile operating system, iOS 6, and replaced the built-in Google Maps app with its own, less accurate version.

Of course, Facebook also had a hand in its own success. Its number of monthly unique visitors rose steadily over the course of the year. In August, the company rolled out a long overdue revamp of its iOS mobile app for iPhone and iPads, significantly speeding up the launch, scroll and browsing times. User reviews in Apple's App Store shot up as a result, and in December the company followed up with a better version of its Android app.

Review: Facebook's Graph Search is promising but incomplete

Study: Some Facebook users envious

Facebook started 2012 facing criticisms of its mobile strategy, and while there are still lingering questions about how it will make money off of mobile, these stats show its adept at transferring the Facebook experience to tablets and smartphones.

People aren't just opening their Facebook app the most, they're spending astonishingly large chunks of time in the app, poking around and reading up on their friends. The social network's app was the single largest, single app time suck, accounting for 23% of the time people spend using mobile apps, according to comScore. Instagram was a distant second accounting for just 3% of the time people spend in apps. Google's app with the most engagement was Gmail, but in total 10% of users' time was spent across various Google apps.

A significant rise in smartphone attacks is predicted every year, and it hasn't happened yet. But that isn't stopping major security firms from saying this will be the year that phones will finally emerge as a major target for cybercriminals. There are many reasons why smartphones are vulnerable. For one, they run most of the same software that smartphone users also use on their computers. Smartphones also have many additional capabilities that hackers can exploit. They can connect to other potentially vulnerable devices using Bluetooth and send and receive text messages, for example.

But smartphones are also increasingly being used as mobile wallets. That's why cybersecurity experts believe mobile payment systems are likely to be the next big target for cybercriminals.

According to research from Juniper Networks (JNPR), 300 million smartphones around the world will be equipped with the near-field communications (NFC) chips needed for mobile payments. Juniper predicts global NFC transactions will total nearly $50 billion this year. http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/08/technology/security/smartphone-cyberattacks/index.html

To My Favorite Digital Media Teacher....

Merry Christmas Ms.Martinez

This teacher is not an ordinary teacher, but shes a teacher that has the will to teach others the ways of digital media. We take that for granted but some of us push throught the insipiness of others. This marvelous teacher come here to NorthDallas high school to us and we should be honor since comes from the facuilty of Richmond College, so this stupid school and staff should be honor for this teacher. Who cares if she get a zero on her reviews these people should be HONERED !

Most people don't realize and apreciate the teachers that give out the most effort. There are some teachers that don't give in any effort into their students what so ever. This teacher should be rewarded for her great work. She gives in 100% each and everyday and each student and staff should realize that.

Facebook is trying out a new messaging system that allows people to pay to have their messages delivered directly to the inboxes of people they're not friends with.

The test, which will only be available to a "small number of people" in the United States, is Facebook's response to a common user complaint: that important messages are getting lost in the social network's spam filter. Currently, Facebook delivers messages it thinks are relevant to users' inbox -- messages from friends, or friends of friends -- but other messages that Facebook believes are spam get sent to a little-noticed "other" folder.

That "other" folder is littered with mostly unwanted messages from people not connected with the user. But on occasion, those out-of-network messages may be important.
Facebook (FB) says it uses a combination of complex algorithms and social connections to determine whether messages are relevant. It also will begin rolling out a new filtering tool that allows users to choose whether they want "strict" filtering -- "mostly messages from friends," according to Facebook's blog post -- or "basic" filtering -- "mostly messages from friends and people you may know."
But even then, Facebook users may miss relevant messages that the social network deems unworthy of the inbox. That's why the company says a paid model could work.
"If you want to send a message to someone you heard speak at an event but are not friends with, or if you want to message someone about a job opportunity, you can use this feature to reach their inbox," the company said in its blog. "For the receiver, this test allows them to hear from people who have an important message to send them."
Facebook didn't say how much the service would cost. But the company is being cautious at the outset: Facebook said it is limiting the test to people -- not businesses -- and users will only be able to receive one paid message in their inbox per week.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/21/technology/social/facebook-messaging/index.html

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