News tagged with electronic message

Expanded study will track adolescent behavior on Facebook

A large-scale, long-term UT Dallas study focusing on adolescent friendships and electronic communication is expanding to include Facebook posts.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A boom in smarter baby monitors

The cry has been heard: After 20 years with little change to baby monitoring devices, new designs premiered in January at the Consumer Electronics Show promising Wi-Fi connectivity and high-definition video that streams live ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google sees Android enhancing home appliances

Google's Android software is best known for powering smartphones, but executive chairman Eric Schmidt sees a future where it could also help devices communicate at home.

Technology / Software

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nigerians held in India over 'phishing' scam: police

Six Nigerian nationals have been arrested in the Indian city of Mumbai on suspicion of defrauding hundreds of people through text message and spam email scams, police said.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Journalists allowed to use Twitter in English courts

Reporters can now use Twitter, text messages and email in courtrooms in England and Wales without needing to ask permission, the head of the judiciary said Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Voice-activated iPhone could snarl laws on drivers' texting

Apple's iPhone 4S is one of several new devices that make it possible to send text messages with both hands on the wheel. As drivers begin to use these new technologies, states may have to decide what they will and won't ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kindle lets readers fire off questions to authors

Amazon on Thursday launched a test version of Kindle software that lets readers fire off questions to authors in text messages sent from the popular electronic book readers.

Technology / Software

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Las Vegas man accused of mass spamming on Facebook

(AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted a Las Vegas man on charges he sent more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Multitaskers may be falling behind

As writer and editor of a biology journal, it's not unusual for Liza Gross to perform several tasks at once. "I'm thinking about articles that are right in front of me while planning upcoming (story) topics," says Gross, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers develop new bushfire warning device

A new, low-cost bushfire detection and monitoring system is being developed by University of Adelaide researchers using mobile communications technology.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Court to review employer access to worker messages

(AP) -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from on their employers' accounts.

Technology / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator

IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Silence of the genes

The molecular architecture of a protein complex that helps determine the fate of human cells has been imaged for the first time by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

New technology lets users set data to self-destruct

What if you could send an e-mail to a co-worker, text a friend or post something on Facebook confident that it would eventually self-destruct?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Teens, texting and the sleep connection

Between their crazy schedules and upside-down circadian rhythms, teens always have been somewhat sleep-deprived. Now technology is making it worse. Teens are not just texting, instant-messaging and surfing Facebook all day; ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0