News tagged with messaging
Distrust of climate science due to lack of media literacy: researcher
(PhysOrg.com) -- Though most climate science studies show evidence that climate change is real, the public persists in distrusting the science.
Mar 22, 2011 |
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US man arrested in hacker stock fraud scheme
US authorities Monday arrested and charged a Texas man accused of masterminding a scheme using a Russian hacker and an email spam campaign to pump up the value of fledgling companies, the Justice Department ...
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Novel Blackberry alerts for Philippine disasters
A Philippine charity said Monday it had launched a novel early warning system for disaster-prone areas using Blackberry devices and laptops.
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Microsoft takes down major fake drug spam network
Microsoft on Thursday announced the dismantling of a "notorious and complex" network of virus-infected computers used to send billions of email messages daily hawking fake drugs.
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Text messaging helps smokers break the habit
A pair of related studies on smoking cessation by researchers at the University of Oregon and other institutions have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 08, 2011 |
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To LOL, or not LOL? That is the question
(AP) -- There was a time when LOL - "laughing out loud" - was so simple.
Mar 07, 2011 |
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SocialEyes lets Facebook friends video chat
Startup SocialEyes on Monday introduced a service that lets people have one-on-one or group video chats with friends from hot online community Facebook.
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Certain parts of the brain activated in people who heard tailored health messages and quit smoking
People who demonstrated a stronger brain response to certain brain regions when receiving individually tailored smoking cessation messages were more likely to quit smoking four months after, a new study found.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Google account users get extra security
(PhysOrg.com) -- Google announced on Thursday that they are giving their Gmail users additional account security, free of charge. As of Thursday Google account users can turn on a "two-step authentication" ...
Facebook Messages prepares for mainstream
Facebook fans hungry for an @facebook.com address, get ready.
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Communications overload
Jose Huitron had just hit the digital wall. Toggling between Facebook, Google, Twitter and a handful of other online communities, he found it hard to keep up with a constant barrage of tweets, texts and instant messages.
Feb 08, 2011 |
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How Google removed the muzzle on Twitter in Egypt
(AP) -- Even before his first day on the job at Google, Ujjwal Singh was trying to figure out how to use his passion for the spoken word and the company's technological prowess to help Egyptians bypass government ...
Feb 06, 2011 |
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Facebook Messages to arrive soon at your inbox
Facebook fans hungry for an @facebook.com address, get ready.
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Vodafone: Egypt forced us to send text messages
(AP) -- Egyptian authorities forced Vodafone to broadcast government-scripted text messages during the protests that have rocked the country, the U.K.-based mobile company said Thursday.
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Last Internet provider in Egypt goes dark
(AP) -- The last of Egypt's main Internet service providers, the Noor Group, has gone dark.
Feb 01, 2011 |
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