The Daily Collegian Online, PA, By Mike Ramsingh, December 3, 2008 Google could now be used to stay healthy. Google Flu Trends, a new project undertaken by the company, will attempt to prove a correlation of influenza-related Google searches in a geographic area with influenza outbreaks,...
eWeek, NY, By Clint Boulton, December 2, 2008 Several things jumped out at me from Jeffrey Rosen's piece in The New York Times magazine this past Saturday. Here's the online version, in all its seven-page glory. First, there is a mindboggling number of countries that can't...
Information Week, By K.C. Jones, December 2, 2008 Facebook has expanded a feature that allows users to integrate their accounts across the Web. Facebook Connect allows members to log in to partner Web sites, track friends' visits to those sites, and update their own Web site...
Roma, 2 dic. (Apcom) - I controlli antidoping sono leciti, ma l'informativa del Coni sui controlli effettuati al di fuori delle competizioni dovrà essere modificata. Lo ha stabilito il Garante, accogliendo alcuni dei rilievi segnalati dall'Accpi (Associazione corridori ciclisti professionisti italiani) riguardo al nuovo protocollo...
Roma, 2 dic. (Apcom) - Dopo l'intervento del settembre scorso, il Garante per la Privacy ha vietato ad altre due società specializzate nella creazione e nella vendita di banche dati (Edipro, Addressvitt) l'ulteriore trattamento di dati personali di milioni di utenti: i dati, nello specifico...
Wall Street Journal, By Victoria Knight, December 1, 2008 Not wishing to be outdone by the likes of Microsoft and Google, UnitedHealth Group today launched its own Web site for people to store their personal health information. The service, at myoptumhealth.com lets people create their own...
NewsFactorNetwork, By Patricia Resende, December 1, 2008 The prosecution celebrated a partial victory as Lori Drew was found guilty of three of the lesser charges she faced stemming from a MySpace hoax that resulted in a 13-year-old girl's suicide. While most of the attention was focused on...
PC Magazine, By Michael Muchmore, December 1, 2008 This past July during its f8 developer conference, Facebook announced a new platform that would allow their users to "bring their Facebook account information, friends and privacy to any third party website, desktop application or device." Called Facebook...
CNET News, By Declan McCullagh, December 2, 2008 Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, drew applause from liberal Democrats earlier this year when he denounced the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. A review of Holder's public statements, speeches, and testimony when he was...
New York Times, By JEFFREY ROSEN, November 28, 2008 In 2006, Thailand announced it was blocking access to YouTube for anyone with a Thai I.P address, and then identified 20 offensive videos for Google to remove as a condition of unblocking the site. ‘If your whole...