News tagged with socialization

Using less effort to think, opinions lean more conservative

(PhysOrg.com) -- When people use low-effort thought, they are more likely to endorse conservative ideology, according to psychologist Scott Eidelman of the University of Arkansas. Results of research by Eidelman and colleagues ...

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created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (33) | comments 158

New IBM software accelerates decision making in the era of big data

IBM today announced new software to provide clients with a sophisticated way to tame the data deluge and speed up business processes, making it easier for decision makers to gain insights from data. Based ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Facebook focus guides Google CEO's 1st year on job

Google co-founder Larry Page has a Facebook fixation. When he replaced his mentor Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO last April, Page insisted that the company had to be more aggressive about countering the threat ...

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Facebook responds to Yahoo with own patent suit

(AP) -- Facebook is stepping up its patent dispute with Yahoo by filing its own lawsuit against the struggling Internet icon.

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

Facebook failing on privacy promises: campaign group

Facebook has failed to meet a deadline to improve its privacy policies that was set by the data commissioner in Ireland, home to it overseas headquarters, an Austrian advocacy group said on Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

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

Stock traders look to Facebook, Twitter for tips

The next big stock tip might be as close as a Twitter feed. Professional traders are developing computer programs that scour Internet posts in search of the next stock market darling. Their technology analyzes everything ...

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

How do I love me? Let me count the ways - and excel in a job interview

(PhysOrg.com) -- The secret to excelling in a job interview may not hinge on how much your interviewers like you, but in how much you like yourself.

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created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers use Facebook to dispel notion that social contagion is like biological contagion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Historically, diseases tend to spread most quickly when introduced into a crowded environment. The more neighbors there are, the more easily viruses can hop from person to person. More recently, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Whether tweets live or die depends more on network, competition for attention than message or user influence

On the global social media stage, it's not so much the message but rather network structure and competition for attention that determine whether a meme becomes popular and shows staying power or whether it ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Facebook fans get to play out celebrity fantasies

A trio of console videogame stars joined the online social play revolution with a free-to-play title that lets folks at Facebook virtually live out celebrity fantasies.

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

Cyber-defence slow due to generation gap: US official

Sluggish moves to counter the rising threat of cyber-attacks can be blamed on a generation of policymakers out of touch with rapid technological change, a senior US official said Monday.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can cold cash, social game relieve rush hour traffic?

Cash prizes for getting to campus late or leaving early? Even Stanford University's hard-working employees and students may be tempted to participate in a new study.

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created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Data breach put 1.5M numbers at risk

(AP) -- A company that processes credit card transactions said Monday that as many as 1.5 million card numbers were compromised in a data breach early last month.

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created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sex-offender registries in five states inflate counts by 43 percent

Do an online search for sex offenders living in your neighborhood and you may be alarmed by how many you find. But a new study of sex-offender registries in five states shows that they overestimate the number of offenders ...

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created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Contact networks have no influence on cooperation among individuals

Researchers at Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Zaragoza theoretically predict, in a scientific study, that contact networks have no influence on cooperation among individuals.

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created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2