Thanks to SmartMobs for drawing attention to a Wikipedia entry that lists some of the interesting ways that mass SMS text messaging has been involved in current political and social situations: * In January 2001, Joseph Estrada was forced to resign from the post of president of the Philippines. The popular campaign against him was […]
Read More… from SMS Text Messaging as a Political & Social Tool
Politicians are finding themselves and their words at the mercy of video sharing site YouTube. With the proliferation of cheap digital cameras and video sites like YouTube, it appears that all the “Little Brothers” have started to turn the cameras on “Big Brother”. This article in the New York Times illustrates how politicians are getting […]
Wired.com is reporting on a group of volunteer researchers in the San Francisco Bay area, who are getting a headstart on the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to patrol US ports with radiation scanners by building their own do-it-yourself, portable nuke detector that will patrol San Francisco Bay. From the article — The Department of […]
Read More… from DIY Radiation Scanner to Patrol SF Bay for Nukes
The AP is reporting that AOL’s Chief Technology Officer has resigned and 2 other workers have been fired, after a privacy breach involving the intentional release of over 650,000 subscriber’s web searches. From the article — Although AOL had substituted numeric IDs for the subscribers’ user names, the search queries themselves contained Social Security numbers, […]
According to a recent article in PC World, Google has purchased a photo search and image recognition software firm called Neven Vision, paving the way for the gathering of information from digital pictures for use in image recognition searches. From the article — Adrian Graham, Picasa product manager, announced the deal in an official Google […]
Read More… from Google Strengthening Picasa Photo Search with Image Recognition