Roma - Il problema ricorre spesso, anzi troppo. Una volta che una persona viene inserita in una pagina web per un fatto di cronaca, una sentenza o altro episodio di qualsiasi natura, il rischio è sempre lo stesso: restarci a lungo, restarci contro la propria...
BBC News, UK, By Bill Thompson, November 17, 2008 One of the throwaway remarks I sometimes make at conferences is that "Google knows you're pregnant before you do". I can say this because the things you search for will change as your life changes, and search...
International Herald Tribune, By Kevin J. O'Brien, November 16, 2008 When Google began hiring in Zurich for its new engineering center in 2004, local officials welcomed the U.S. company with open arms. Google's arrival is still bearing fruit for Zurich: 450 employees, about 300 of them...
TechCrunch, CA, By Erick Schonfeld, November 16, 2008 We all know online advertising decelerated in the third quarter, but how bad was the slowdown overall? To find out, we added up the online advertising revenues for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL, which together account for the...
PC Magazine, By Eric Griffith, November 17, 2008 Do you remember a time before everyone knew your every move? Maybe it's our own fault. We live in an age where microblogs and social networks are all about keeping in touch—to the extreme. It's fun to follow...
New York Times, By Brad Stone, November 15, 2008 WHEN it comes to protecting children on the Internet and keeping them safe from predators, law enforcement officials have vocally advocated one approach in particular. They want popular sites, like the social network MySpace, to confirm the...
New York Times, By Miguel Helft, November 13, 2008 When Google released its Flu Trends service earlier this week, the Drudge Report flashed a headline that read: “SICK SURVEILLANCE: GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES, LOCATIONS TO FEDS.” Google sought to avoid this kind of reaction by talking...
Medical News Today, UK, November 14, 2008 HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt on Wednesday said that a one-year Medicare pilot program that will encourage beneficiaries to create online personal health records will reduce paperwork and prevent unnecessary medical procedures, Cronkite News/Arizona Daily Star reports. In January 2009,...
New York Times, By Saul Hansell, November 13, 2008 There was an ad on the front of both Facebook and MySpace Wednesday promoting the Fox movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” The two ads couldn’t have been more different. On MySpace, the ad filled the...
Wall Street Journal, By Laura Landro, November 12, 2008 The next time you're in a hospital, they may be watching you. Hospitals are increasingly relying on electronic tracking systems to keep tabs on equipment and lab specimens, and even to monitor the location of patients and...