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Facebook to Offer New Features to Allow Users to Control Privacy of InformationThe company is testing new controls that will allow members to specify which groups or individuals are able to see each text update, photo or video they post on the site.
New York Times Thursday, July 02, 2009Microsoft Bing Dings Google, Searches Twitter TweetsMicrosoft adds real-time search capabilities to its Bing search engine as it seeks to knock
google from its search perch. Now users can use Bing to find the latest Twitter tweets from celebrities and other persons of note, including high-tech journalists. The move comes as startups CrowdEye, Collecta and others are propagating the Web with real-time search. -
microsoft July 1 added the ability for users to search Twitter tweets with its Bing search engine, the company's latest attack on
google's search stronghold. The feature is real-time search, or the ability to locate data generated at a specific moment in time online. Microblog serv...
eWEEK Thursday, July 02, 2009Court rules MySpace not liable for offline assaultsConsistent with other federal rulings, a social
network or other Web
service can't be held responsible if a minor is assaulted offline by someone whom he or she meets online.
CNET Thursday, July 02, 2009PC makers voluntarily supply web filter in ChinaGovernment is delaying its plan to make filtering software mandatory, but manufacturers are including it anyway
The Globe and Mail Thursday, July 02, 2009Stericycle outpaces rivals with aggressive growthMedical waste disposal company has great potential, strong returns --even though it's not cheap
The Globe and Mail Thursday, July 02, 2009Is Security Hardware Plus Services Sustainable?Security hardware vendors are trying to reverse the slide in appliance sales and margins by marrying cloud-based services to the on-premise box. While it sounds like a good deal, solution providers should examine the go-to-market structure to ensure they're getting a sustainable share of the business. - Sales of security hardware and appliances fell more than 16 percent in the first quarter of the year, which is pretty steep but not nearly as bad as the 20-plus percent decline in sales of core networking gear. While
market research firm Infonetics believes security appliances firewall/VPN...
eWEEK Thursday, July 02, 2009Cisco Offers Linux-Enabled Linksys RouterCisco's sleek new router gives cost-conscious business owners another option in the crowded (and competitive) Wireless-N level router market. - Networking and communications giant Cisco
systems announced an update to the Linux-powered WRT54GL router, the Linksys by Cisco WRT160NL Wireless-N router. The router is currently available and retails for $119.00. Among the features is Wireless-Ns Multiple in, Multiple Out Mimo t...
eWEEK Thursday, July 02, 2009Apple warns on iPhone 3GS overheating riskApple's new
iphone 3GS gets hot during usage, according to anecdotal reports that have begun to emerge on the web in the fortnight since the device was released - which seems to have prompted the company to issue a warning against leaving it inside cars in hot weather, and noting that the phone will throw up a temperature warning if it overheats.The iPhone 3GS has a significantly faster central processor than its predecessor: while the iPhone 3G ran at 400MHz, the 3GS's chip functions at about 600MHz. But advances in chip technology in the intervening year should mean that the 3GS chip uses less power.Even so, a number of users have said that the phone gets significantly hotter than the 3G model that was released in 2008. Melissa Perenson, a reporter for PC World, said that she noticed that when it was plugged into the wall to recharge that it became "Very, very hot -- not just on the back, but the entire length of the front face, too. I was using a game, and then later the Web browser
Guardian Thursday, July 02, 2009Do Brain Trainer Games and Software Work?The market for brain-training software continues to grow, but evidence of the programs’ ability to boost memory or intelligence in a broadly applicable way (rather than simply making people better at the task they are practicing) remains scarce. New studies offer a tantalizing suggestion that certain programs may work--but the bulk of the research is murky.Neuroscientist Peter Snyder of Brown University reviewed nearly 20 software studies and concluded that, as a group, they were underwhelming. They are marred by flaws that induce confounding factors, such as a lack of control groups and follow-up, Snyder warns. More than a third of those he reviewed were too shoddy even to include in the analysis he printed early this year in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia. “You’d be surprised at what gets published,” he says. Although some products claimed to treat dementia, Snyder did not find any evidence to back such claims. [More] Sponsor
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