Washington Post, By JR Raphael, December 5, 2008 Facebook launched its Web-wide sign-on system, Facebook Connect, on Thursday -- and let me tell you, this thing has the potential to simplify and enrich social networking in a revolutionary way. Facebook Connect lets you use your Facebook...
Information World Review, UK, By Tracey Caldwell, December 3, 2008 Google has agreed to pay out $125m after authors and publishers took exception to the search company helping itself to their work and is preparing to digitise several million more books. The USsettlement will have an...
Synapse, CA, By Alison Silvis, December 4, 2008 Google’s latest innovation reaches far beyond the realm of the Internet, computer science and extravagant employee benefits: Google Flu Trends, an influenza tracking system with a lag time of only a single day, up to two weeks faster...
Associated Press, By MALCOLM RITTER, December 3, 2008 NEW YORK — What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people? These sound like concerns from...
CNET News, By Chris Soghoian, December 3, 2008 When a DRM based music, video or software product shuts down, as has happened in the past with Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Wal-Mart, one thing is guaranteed: customers lose legal access to works that they paid for. Existing...
Milano - Non esiste una parola italiana altrettanto efficace, quindi, da più di dieci anni, anche nel nostro Paese, è semplicemente “privacy”. Leggi tutto...
a cura di di Gianluca Perricone Il dottor Giuseppe Chiaravalloti è componente del Garante per la protezione dei dati personali dal marzo del 2005 e, dal maggio dello stesso anno, ne è anche Vicepresidente. Leggi tutto...
"Su internet manca ancora una regolamentazione internazionale uniforme, credo che nel prossimo G8 si possa portare sul tavolo questa proposta". Il premier, dopo il violento attacco ai quotidiani, adesso si dedica al world wide web, lo "spazio pubblico" più grande che l'umanità abbia fino ad...
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...