News tagged with networking tool
Protest targets US cyber intelligence legislation
Civil liberties groups on Monday launched protests targeting proposed US cyber intelligence law that they fear would let police freely dip into people's private online information.
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Coming of age on the Internet
In the mid-90s, the Internet seemed like a dark place. Indeed, scientific studies from that time were documenting some real risks for teenagers, including fewer close friendships and more tenuous connections with family. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Less is more in the fight against terrorism
Terrorist networks are complex. Now, a mathematical analysis of their properties published this month in the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, suggests that the best way to fight them is to iso ...
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Internet privacy tools are confusing, ineffective for most people: report
Internet users who want to protect their privacy by stopping advertisers and other companies from tracking their online behavior will have great difficulty doing so with commonly available "opt-out" tools, researchers at ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Sandia cyber project looks to help IT professionals with complex DNS vulnerabilities
Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Casey Deccio has developed a visualization tool known as DNSViz to help network administrators within the federal government and global IT community better understand ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Gore says 'democracy has been hacked' at SXSW
(AP) -- In a wide-ranging talk about the Internet and government, Al Gore urged the techie crowd at South By Southwest to use digital tools to improve government.
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Testbeds to breed next-generation systems
(PhysOrg.com) -- The systems that let you zap a photo to a friend, or an astronomer to control a telescope continents away, require intensive simulation and testing. Research has now made those key steps far easier.
Jan 28, 2009 |
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MIT wins Pentagon prize in social networking contest
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won a 40,000-dollar prize for using social networking tools to identify the locations of 10 large weather balloons in a contest sponsored by ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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iTeacher: Program Brings Web 2.0 to the Classroom
(PhysOrg.com) -- Online media and social networking Web sites - Web 2.0 standards like Facebook and YouTube - are the new tools for communication and entertainment among K-12 students. Safety and inappropriate content issues, ...
Mar 12, 2009 |
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No Facebook at work in most US companies
More than half of US companies do not allow employees to visit social networks such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter while at work, according to a new survey.
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Social media study: Conservatives were top tweeters in 2010 elections
The results of a study on candidates' use of Twitter in the 2010 midterm elections suggest that Republicans and Tea Party members used the social medium more effectively than their Democratic rivals.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2011 |
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How to hold students' attention in large lectures: Reach out through their laptops and cell phones
This fall, more than 4,000 University of Michigan students in nearly 20 classes will be utilizing LectureTools, an interactive presentation tool that harnesses the potential of laptops and cell phones to serve as learning ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Are mobiles and social networking sites changing the way we behave?
(PhysOrg.com) -- How dependent have we become on mobile phones, and are social networking sites changing the nature of our relationships with other people? A three-year Oxford University study is to address ...
Oct 08, 2009 |
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US military lets soldiers Tweet, blog and Facebook
The Pentagon said soldiers will be allowed to Tweet, blog and update their Facebook pages on the US military's non-classified computer network under a new policy.
Feb 27, 2010 |
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Researcher presents latest work on tracking ideas in social media
Indiana University's Filippo Menczer has shown how to "out" political astroturfers through his complex networks laboratory's study of information diffusion on Twitter. The research team went on to learn that while retweet ...
Feb 19, 2012 |
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