The New York City Police Department is building a database of cell phone numbers and their owners. NYPD officers have been advised to record the serial numbers on suspects’ cell phones in an effort to track them against past or future criminal activity. The cell phone database could be a powerful tool for police investigations […]
The Best Real-Time Search Engines
Along with the rise in social networks like Twitter and Facebook has come a constant stream of fresh information from these new social media sites. As a result, real time search engines have arrived on the search scene to index and organize the latest news buzz from these online social circuits. We review some of […]
Real-Time Search Engines Challenge Google Dominance
The rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter, with their constant streams of fresh user updates have given rise to a new type of web search engine that is challenging Google’s dominance in the area of internet search – the real-time search engine. According to a recent Wired.com article, the internet is changing rapidly […]
Facebook Mines User Data To Measure U.S. Moods
Facebook has mined user data from their social network and produced a graphical representation of the collective happiness of Facebook’s millions of U.S. users. Facebook analyzed information from their database of user updates and scanned for words indicating a particular mood of happy or sad and correlated the updates to the day they were posted. […]
Over Half of Companies Block Facebook, Twitter & MySpace
Social network sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are blocked on over half ( 54% ) of corporate networks, according to a recent survey of Chief Information Officers that was conducted by Robert Half Technology. Furthermore, this 54% represents the percentage of CIOs surveyed who say that their corporations do not allow use of popular […]