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.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Education social networking site Edmodo to open API to third party developers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Edmodo, the leading education centric social networking site has announced that it is opening its Application Programming Interface (API) to third party developers in a bid to entice more ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

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

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

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

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Social networking for innovators

New collaboration and strategic innovation tools developed by European researchers will help fast-track creative ideas by networking the most competent people to tackle the job.

Technology / Software

created Aug 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google increasingly battles Facebook in search

(AP) -- Google has identified social networking sites like Facebook as growing competitors in search, a company spokesman said Monday.

Technology / Internet

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

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, ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microsoft service makes research a social affair

An "experimental" project by Microsoft to mix online social networking and academic research was open to the public on Monday.

Technology / Internet

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 69

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 ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Facebook makes sharing more selective

Facebook on Tuesday announced it is rolling out improvements aimed at letting users be more selective about who gets to see what they post at the world's largest online social network.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer infections rife as hackers prevail: PandaLabs

Hackers infected computers, derailed websites, and plundered networks in a memorably miserable quarter, according to a report released Wednesday by Internet security firm PandaLabs.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In an emergency, word spreads fast and far

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large-scale emergencies, such as bombings and plane crashes, trigger a sharp spike in the number of phone calls and text messages sent by eyewitnesses in the vicinity of the disaster, according ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1