ABC News is reporting on a surge in the sale of disposable cell phones in Texas and California that may have a link to possible domestic terrorist activity. Disposable cell phones are hard to track because they do not require the purchasers to sign a contract or have a credit card or personal identification. From […]
Kimberly Powell at about.com has put together a great list of 12 good Google genealogy search tips. Although the tips are written with genealogy search in mind, they can be used by anyone who wants to refine and hone their google searches for people search, public record search or any other type of web search. […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that Cingular and Radio Shack are working together on a wireless AMBER Alert System for users of cell phones and wireless network devices. The AMBER Alerts will be a free, opt-in service that will notify cell phone users in a given geographic area to newly-filed missing children notices in their […]
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SmartMobs.com has an interesting post with links to a 22 minute BBC video that discusses how pictures and video images taken by everyday citizens with cell phone cameras is changing the way news is covered and news content is created. As we have stated before on this blog, networked technology has turned everyday citizens into […]
RFID ( Radio Frequency Identification ) is the latest small-scale tracking technology that can be used to track and locate objects or people. Pay attention to this new technology and its increasing applications. Here is a concise description of RFID from Wikipedia — Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing […]
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