It wasn't until he went online he found out Egypt was swept up in a revolution against President Hosni Mubarak.
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When Forney got home that night and heard about the shooting, he went online, he said.
Manning has said he corresponded online with someone he believed to be Assange but never confirmed the person's identity.
No charges were filed in that case, but on October 5, 2009, he posted online his FBI file that he apparently requested from the agency.
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He told BBC News Online he felt NHS Direct nurses relied too heavily on a computer system to guide them as to what course of action is best for a patient.
When he started researching online, he found out about RepRap, an open-source project for 3D printing, which provided the foundation to at least start creating a 3D printer, not only because of the open-source instructions but also because of a community of enthusiastic tinkerers like himself.
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Ms. LITHWICK: There's so many and each of them is sort of heartbreaking, but you know, there's the guy in Atlantic City who kept scamming women he met online and would send them love letters and tell them to spend money so he could move to be near them and then he would gamble it away at the casinos.
He sold another online education company he started, Achievement Technologies, to Houghton Mifflin in 2006.
Meantime, he applied for dozens of posted job openings he saw online, with zero success.
He praised online education, and predicted accreditation for online learning would soon become widespread.
He cites online file-sharing firms like Dropbox and Box.net, which are popular with companies, as potential competitors.
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There's the poor guy in Arizona, who sent heaps of his money to some Russian goddess that he met online.
Although he told BBC News Online that he had never seen the memo.
When an IBM product developer is in the market for parts, he goes online to a list of preferred suppliers.
The defense Thursday tried to show that Valle provided false information about the alleged targets' locations to some people he wrote online.
He uses online sales data to determine what New Yorkers like best.
He told the New York Times that he welcomed online customer complaints about him because they would help boost his Google search rankings.
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He told BBC News Online that he was encouraged by the EU position, which showed that concerns about social justice will go away.
He shares data about his fitness achievements with a team of about 40 people, mostly from other countries, whom he met online but never in person.
Although he is not sure his tweeting tipped off the burglars, he says he will be more careful in the future about what he shares online.
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We know, because as is only appropriate for the founder of Foursquare, Dennis posts everything he does online to Facebook, to Foursquare, to Twitter, and to Flickr.
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He said online access ensured "best quality care" for patients.
He launched online contests offering cash prizes for whoever could make the best case of where to drill, using GoldCorp's proprietary geological information, which he shared on the company Web site.
Think about your own life. 10 years ago when my son (a 9 year old at the time) wanted his own personalized Nike Shox, he went online and designed them at nike.com.
He networked online through LinkedIn and Facebook.
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When Jason Austin, a 29-year-old IT professional, was skeptical of a potential date he'd met online, he did what anyone who's seen an episode of "Catfish" (or just has plain common sense) would do: He turned to Facebook.
Asked to give details of the new methods that criminals were using, Sir Peter said he was reluctant to reveal too much since offenders could be listening to the hearing, but he identified online "gaming platforms" as a growing concern.
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He launched online trading two decades later, took his firm public in 1997 and built a national name during the dot-com boom by offering cut rates, bare-bones service and Stuart, a ponytailed spokesman who taught his boss how cool it was to trade online.
Last month it placed ads in college newspapers and on a campus billboard network for Summit Entertainment, which is promoting a film based on an Alloy book about a high school senior who drives across the country to meet a girl he met online.
While he's spoken with some of the entrepreneurs whose startups he funded through those platforms, he says he opted to invest in them mostly based on information he found online, including founders' portfolio websites and social-media profiles, coverage of their companies by tech blogs, and comments about their products within the funding sites' discussion forums.
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