According to this Dec. 8 article in the Guardian Unlimited, organized criminal gangs are recruiting undergraduate college students for future corporate criminal activities by offering to pay for their college tuition and expenses. From the article — Organised gangs are recruiting the next generation of internet criminals by approaching undergraduates on university campuses. In some […]
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A recent post on TechCrunch discusses some new “geographic web” features that have been added to the Google Earth search engine. The features include geographic information pulled from Wikipedia as well as pictures from a geographic photo sharing site called Panoramio. Source: Google Adds The Geographic Web To Earth […]
CNET news is reporting on how cell phone tracing was used in the search and rescue effort to find editor James Kim and his family, and how the technology is routinely used by law enforcement to locate missing people. From the article — Cellular phone networks have become key tools used by search and rescue […]
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A recent USA Today article sums up our modern privacy dilemma with one sentence: “With tiny tech, a video little brother is always watching”. From the article — Welcome to the era of citizen journalism. “Video empowers the individual against big brother,” says Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at the […]
The ChaCha search engine claims to be the world’s biggest live search site, where the search results are found for you by real people, who claim to be experts at web research. Rather than rely on computer algorithms to find useful search results, the ChaCha search engine relies on thousands of human web searchers to […]
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