15 April 2011
Recently Smart911, a technology service implemented by 9-1-1 centers across the country, reached out to me to make sure parents know that they can go online and enter life-saving information about their health, any disabilities, family members, pets, photos and the home address affiliated with their cell phone numbers.
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15 April 2011
Google released a set of tougher copyright policies for YouTube online video users on Thursday, requiring violators to watch a copyright tutorial and pass a test before allowing them to continue using the service.
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05 April 2011
Described by Kakavas as a "geolocation information aggregator", Creepy analyzes a user's tweets, Facebook posts, and Flickr stream, generating a map of where that person is, as well as the specific locations they frequent. Though the notion of creating such an app may sound creepy in and of itself, Kakavas points out in an interview with tech site Thinq_, that if Creepy works, it's the fault of the user:
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25 March 2011
Kimiya Haghighi, 17, had a prose problem. As much as her teachers preached concise writing, her sentences remained long and overwrought — the words poured out, unpunctuated, one after another. Then Aubrey Ludwig, her 11th-grade English teacher at Langley High School, introduced her class to Twitter, requiring that students tweet their responses to a Hemingway assignment in 140 characters or less. Suddenly, Haghighi’s writing was efficient, declarative, even staccato. “It was a total breakthrough,” she said.
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17 March 2011
Introducing Toddler 2.0. Young children are becoming increasingly tech-savvy, a new study finds. Recent research shows that 80 percent of children under five years old use the Internet once a week.
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01 March 2011
Facebook will be moving forward with a controversial plan to give third-party developers and external websites the ability to access users' home addresses and cellphone numbers in the face of criticism from privacy experts, users, and even congressmen.
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13 February 2011
Did you know that your entire life if being captured online? Your home address, phone number, marital status and even your hobbies are being collected and now AGRAGATED! STOP- don’t panic! Your personal information has always been out there for people to find – even before the days of the Internet… anyone remember the white [...]
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13 February 2011
Kids love to play games – especially social games. They love playing so much that they are willing to lie about their age to create bogus accounts on websites which offer the games they want, i.e. Facebook.
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13 February 2011
ScreenRetriever provides an experience similar to television’s “picture within a picture,” displaying a live image of the child’s computer screen on the parent’s computer so parents can monitor everything their child is doing online as it happens, letting them parent online just as they would offline.
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03 January 2011
Prison officials can’t seem to confiscate inmates’ cell phones quickly enough, and many of the devices include Facebook applications that the prisoners use to regularly update profiles.
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