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Privacy Study Shows Google's Eyes Are Everywhere
A U.C. Berkeley report shows that most Internet users don't understand Web site privacy policies, and that major online businesses like Google Inc. freely gather...
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Toward Cheap nderwater Sensor Nets
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego's (UCSD's) Jacobs School of Engineering recently presented a paper highlighting the energy conservation benefits...
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Video Games Help Doctors View Ct and Mri Images
The popular Nintendo Wii video game system is helping radiology students reach new levels! Faculty from Weill Cornell Medical College have coupled the motion-sensitive...
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Eu Project Evaluates Nomadic Device Benefits For Drivers
Swedish Research CouncilParticipants in the European Union (EU) project TeleFOT recently met at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, to assess...
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Iphone The Work Tool For Sustainable Factories of the Future
The European Union-backed MyCar project is a collaborative effort involving Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology and the Volvo Group that is developing manufacturing...
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How a Team of Academic Experts Contributed to Obama's Cyberspace Review
The National Security Council's Melissa Hathaway sought the advice of a variety of computer security experts when she conducted the recently completed 60-day review...
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The Next Frontier: Decoding the Internet's Raw Data
The massive amounts of data available on the Internet potentially have infinite uses. For example, advertisers want to mine photos and status updates on social...
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Obama Outlines Coordinated Cyber-Security Plan
U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the country's disjointed efforts to "deter, prevent, detect, and defend" against cyberattacks will now be run by the...
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Faster Internet on the Road
Researchers at Rutgers University's Winlab and NEC Laboratories have developed R2D2, a system designed to improve Wi-Fi wireless Internet access when traveling....
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Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Computer Wars
The U.S. Pentagon is planning to establish a new cyberwarfare command as a complement to a soon-to-be-announced civilian computer network safety overhaul, according...
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Craigslist Founder to Keynote Computer Policy Conference
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will give the keynote address at ACM's 2009 Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP), which takes place from June 1-4...
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FCC Develops Strategy For Rural Broadband
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a broadband strategy for the rural United States that cautions against relying on a single technology...
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Japan niversity Gives Away Iphones to Nab Truants
A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that skip class. Aoyama Gakuin...
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Nasa Launches 'nebula' Compute Cloud
NASA is developing Nebula, an open source-based cloud computing initiative that would support space missions and as well as an overhaul of the agency's Web sites...
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Online Life Can Be Convenient as Well as Dangerous
The rapid growth of technology and the cyberworld has made today's youth excellent technological multitaskers, and created entirely online businesses, but cyberspace...
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Viral Epidemics Poised to Go Mobile
A research team led by Northeastern University Center for Complex Network Research director Albert-Laszlo Barabasi set out to investigate why smartphone and mobile...
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Mobile Services Made Simple
European researchers believe they have achieved what has remained an almost impossible dream in the wireless world: powerful mobile services that work simply, seamlessly...
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Sluggish Data Transport Is Faster Than Adsl
Researchers in Israel have concluded that their SNAP (snail-based data transfer protocol) system is the fastest available "last-mile" communications technology...
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Could Budget Cuts Cost Pentagon Its High-Tech Edge?
Futuristic military projects outlined in the just-issued Strategic Plan 2009 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) include planes that stay aloft...
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