Social media falls short in DARPA's CLIQR challenge
Nobody claimed the grand prize in the quest to test the potential effectiveness of social media during a disaster.
Harvesting your data? Suit alleges there are lots of apps doing that.
A class-action lawsuit filed in an Austin, Texas, court the week of March 12 alleges some of the most-downloaded mobile apps are stealing personal information without users' knowledge. Just who is responsible? There are some pretty well known names, including but not limited to Facebook, Apple and Twitter.
NASA's new trajectory: Angry Birds in space
NASA is going into outer space again, but this time instead of launching a spaceship, it's sending some Angry Birds.
Interior wants to put all its messages in one cloud
The department is looking for a cloud-based Enterprise eArchive System for capturing e-mail, social media, instant messaging and electronic documents.
Wolfram Alpha Pro runs rings around today's search engines
More concierge than search engine, Wolfram Alpha Pro will analyze a query, perform high-end math calculations and even analyze images.
China suspected in Facebook scam against NATO officers
A fake profile for NATO's senior commander lured other officers into accepting a friend request, compromising personal information in the process.
5 thieves, 5 cities, 12 hours: Can Twitter catch them?
A State Department-sponsored contest will test social media's intelligence-gathering power, asking contestants to find a ring of international jewel thieves.
StumbleUpon and feds: Tricks of the social media trade
A StumbleUpon executive explains how federal agencies can leverage the StumbleUpon platform to drive traffic to federal websites.
DARPA's $40K 'quest' tests social media's ability to help in emergency
The CLIQR Quest Challenge asks participants to use their social media skills to locate QR codes that represent resources crews would need in an emergency.
The riskiest cities for cyber crime: Where does yours rank?
Norton and Sperling's BestPlaces list the U.S. cities with the highest online risk factors, which seem to boil down to using the Internet.
Good metadata means good government
Understanding how to design the right metadata is the key to helping users (and citizens) get the most value from data on your organization's products and services.
What you need to know about big data
It's not one thing, but a mix of technologies that can let you make use of the exploding data generated by sensors, mobile devices and broadband. And it's in everyone's future.
NASA's 'Blast Off' a new frontier for Facebook games
Games on the social media site to date haven't taught users much. But the multiplayer "Space Race Blast Off" is different.
Study: Most tweets not worthwhile, but you can change that
A new study found that people on Twitter said only 36 percent of the tweets that fill their feeds each day are useful. But there are ways users can improve their tweets.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, 12 others gang up on phishers
The group's DMARC specification could even keep spam out of your spam filter.
FBI wants social media intell scanner
The Web-based tool would scan social media sites and commercial news outlets to help stay ahead of unfolding crises.
Twitter users clam up to protest new in-country blocking policy
Some users are trying to organize a Twitter blackout Jan. 28, in protest of a new policy that allows tweets to be blocked within a country.
5 technologies on the way out in 2012
As the computing landscape changes, you're going to have to say goodbye to some old friends.
5 ways to avoid getting caught in phishing scams
Security software is helpful, but a scammer's best weapon is social engineering. That means users have to be ready, too.
NOAA app lets you track aurora from solar storms
If the aurora from coming solar storms will bring Northern (or Southern) Lights to your latitude, OVATION can let you know ahead of time.
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