Google Earth is being used with CCTV video to view people and vehicles in real time by students from the Georgia Institute of Technology. The potential and possible use of this new search technology will be viewed with excitement by some people and fear by others. Right now the technology makes the people and vehicles […]
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A Tennessee woman has been arrested for “poking” someone on the Facebook social network. Shannon D. Jackson was arrested on September 25th for allegedly violating a court order of protection. Jackson is accused of using a virtual Facebook “poke” to communicate with a Hendersonville woman, which violates a court order of protection, that states “no […]
Online dating site Gelato is fast becoming the Facebook & Twitter of singles sites. Gelato mixes social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and others with real-time search into it’s online dating site to give people a new way to find a date. The idea behind Gelato’s social dating 2.0 site is to give people […]
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The real-time search wars are getting bigger each day — Twitter is reportedly in separate negotiations with both Google and Microsoft to supply their social network’s huge amount of real-time tweet data to the two big search engines. Sources state that the deals would include a license of Twitter’s complete tweet feed and using it […]
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 […]
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