Twitter Keeps World Ahead of Boston Manhunt News Joe Stanganelli 4/19/2013 75 comments Yesterday the combination of police scanners and Twitter delivered more timely and accurate news than TV broadcasts about the manhunt after the Boston Marathon bombings.
Ryan Lanza's Unjust Facebook Beating Joe Stanganelli 12/18/2012 33 comments Ryan Lanza, innocent brother of Newtown killer Adam, faced a social media beating when the press wrongly accused him of murder.
Judge Rules 'Likes' Aren't Speech Joe Stanganelli 5/8/2012 33 comments A judge in Virginia has ruled that employees who "Liked" the political opponents of a sheriff on Facebook weren't using "speech" as it exists in the law.
Cloud Moves in on Bioscience Joe Stanganelli 4/25/2012 9 comments At a conference this week, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has unveiled a cloud service featuring data management tools for genomic scientists who aren't programmers.
Lost Smartphones Rat Out Nosy Finders Joe Stanganelli 3/19/2012 42 comments A recent trail proved that if you lose your smartphone, you likely won't get it back – nor the private information stored on it.
Cops + Social Media = Disaster Joe Stanganelli 2/15/2012 40 comments Law enforcement groups are finding the need for tougher social media policies in the wake of some high-profile snafus.
Legit Sites Caught in Megaupload Fallout Joe Stanganelli 2/2/2012 25 comments A number of legitimate users who subscribed to Megaupload for cloud storage are finding themselves unable to retrieve lost data.
'Tweet Seats' Attract – & Annoy – Art Patrons Joe Stanganelli 12/30/2011 37 comments Some theaters reserve seating for patrons who use cellphones to send updates on a live performance, much to the annoyance of other attendees.
A Prodigy's App Does the Web Work for You Joe Stanganelli 12/15/2011 19 comments A new smartphone app called Summly searches out the essential elements of Websites and delivers the information to your iPhone.
Teen's Tweet a Lesson in Handling Social Media Joe Stanganelli 11/29/2011 61 comments When an 18-year-old high schooler's nasty tweet about a governor stirred his staff to respond aggressively, the governor wound up apologizing.
Social Sites Led News of Jobs's Death Joe Stanganelli 10/6/2011 31 comments Twitter and Facebook, not the mainstream news sites, were the sources of reliable information about Steve Jobs's death.
Carmaker Email Stunt Prompts Lawsuit Joe Stanganelli 9/20/2011 15 comments An online advertising stunt that involved sending increasingly disturbing emails over a five-day period has backfired for Toyota.
Meetup Missive Co-Opts 9/11 for Publicity Joe Stanganelli 9/12/2011 17 comments Meetup's co-founder using the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to blatantly pat his firm on the back just doesn't jive with this author.
German Official Bans Facebook 'Likes' Joe Stanganelli 8/25/2011 42 comments A German official has ordered that all federal institutions within his state remove their Facebook pages and all Facebook plug-ins.
Facebook Attorneys Play to the Gallery Joe Stanganelli 8/23/2011 7 comments Recent motions in Facebook's legal wrangle with Paul Ceglia show the company's attorneys are posturing for the press.
Why Facebook's 'Smoking Gun' Might Not Be Joe Stanganelli 8/15/2011 18 comments Despite Facebook's claim to have "smoking gun" evidence in its dispute with Paul Ceglia, the reality may prove disappointing to some.
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
The apartment and house sharing service, Airbnb, now requires members to verify their identities by demonstrating a presence on the web, and by either scanning a government ID or entering detailed personal details. Other enterprises should take a close look at Airbnb's verification policies.
Facebook advertising is a lightning rod. It seems neither brands nor consumers are 100 percent happy about the social media site's policies, placement, or procedures. But the real controversy about Facebook ads and promotions is over whether they work.
By now, you've most likely heard about the 3D-printed gun that Texas-based Defense Distributed demonstrated last week. But we haven't heard the last about the censorship war that began soon afterward.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
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