If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world...Technology Review From ACM News | June 14, 2012
San Francisco is set to become the latest U.S. city to invest in software, created by Texas-based BRS Labs, that monitors and memorizes movements as they are captured...Slate From ACM News | June 14, 2012
If you're among the companies vying for one of the nearly 2,000 new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, you've got big pockets. The application alone costs about...CNN From ACM News | June 13, 2012
An unprecedented land grab for new Web addresses began in earnest on Wednesday with fierce competition for new internet real estate including .app, .blog, and .web...Reuters From ACM News | June 13, 2012
In China, sometimes having the first-mover advantage is often no advantage at all. Case in point: Apple vs. Google.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 13, 2012
Like to pick your browser? Beware, because new mobile devices threaten to stifle the competitive vigor of the market for Web browsers on PCs.CNET From ACM News | May 23, 2012
Local and national governments are turning to open data to cut their costs, increase transparency and efficiency, and respond to the needs of citizens.Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2012
Electronic patient records contain a treasure trove of data, and researchers are using natural language processing technology to mine the structured data and free...Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2012
When scientists publish their research, they also make the underlying data available so the results can be verified by other scientists.The New York Times From ACM News | May 23, 2012
Iran on Saturday criticized Google for leaving the body of water separating it from the Arabian peninsula nameless on its online map service, saying it would hurt...Fars News Agency From ACM News | May 14, 2012
When Facebook goes public in the coming weeks, there will be a lot of winners. Among them is one of the stalwarts of the tech industry, Microsoft, which has a small...The New York Times From ACM News | May 14, 2012
MIT and Microsoft researchers determined that search engines could use crowdsourcing to expand the range of answers they provide for users. Most search engines...PC World From ACM TechNews | May 11, 2012
At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer...The New York Times From ACM News | May 1, 2012
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2012
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the Internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2012
In a typical month, David Lawee meets two dozen founders of new companies. He grills them on their businesses, their ambitions, their funding, and their clever...Slate From ACM News | March 30, 2012
Scientific data is expanding at an unprecedented rate. While new tools are helping preserve this data, funding must be increased and policy coordination needs improvement...Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2012