The Social-Network Chip
By Kate Greene Looking at friends’ pictures on Facebook or searching résumés on LinkedIn are relatively simple computing tasks in which information is called up, […]
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Cyber threats 2012: search poisoning, mobile Web attacks, selling social-media data
By Jason Maderer The year ahead will feature new and increasingly sophisticated means to capture and exploit user data, as well as escalating battles over […]
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Crowdsourcing Democracy Through Social Media
By Michael Terrazas ATLANTA – Oct. 11, 2011 – Today the citizens of Liberia will participate in just their second presidential election since the country […]
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Why Simple File Sharing Is Serious Business
By Tom Simonite It could be among most obvious business plans ever: offer to store people’s files online so they can access them anywhere. The […]
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Startup Lets You Save and Share Parts of Web Pages
By Erica Naone The Web may make it easy to communicate with people thousands of miles away and put libraries full of knowledge at our […]
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A Tablet for the Blind?
By David Zax (Technology Review) An innovative app developed at Stanford University over the summer shows how tablet computing has the potential to transform the […]
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Stop, Or I’ll Tweet! Cops Struggle With Social Media
By Bill Wasik DALLAS, Texas — A nightstick, a revolver, and a smartphone to check in on Foursquare. That’s the necessary gear of the future […]
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One Smart Phone, Two Personalities
By Tom Simonite AT&T, the second largest wireless carrier in the U.S., and Qualcomm, which dominates the market for smart-phone processors, want to give your […]
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How to Bid on Computing Power
By Cindy Waxer Imagine buying time on a computer in Ireland or Indiana the same way you’d bid for an antique on eBay. That’s how […]
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No Cell Towers, Big Problem: Army Aims for Battlefield Network
By Mark Riffee It’s been four and a half years since Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone. Since then, the Jesus Phone and its competitors […]
