The personal information of millions of smartphone users is at risk due to in-app advertising that can leak potentially sensitive user information between ad networks and mobile app developers, according to a new study by ...
Security
Feb 23, 2016
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Ad hoc networks—communication networks set up on the fly by mobile sensors—pose problems that ordinary office networks don't. Ad hoc networks are usually decentralized, meaning that no one node knows what the network ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 9, 2013
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(AP) -- The Web sites we visit, the online links we click, the search queries we conduct, the products we put in virtual shopping carts, the personal details we reveal on social networking pages - all of this can give companies ...
Internet
Sep 7, 2009
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Ants, it turns out, are extremely good at estimating the concentration of other ants in their vicinity. This ability appears to play a role in several communal activities, particularly in the voting procedure whereby an ant ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 13, 2016
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The quandary for those who run social media networks is how to make money on them without antagonising and thus losing users through distracting ads.
Internet
Apr 12, 2015
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg will sell a chunk of his stake in the company, cashing in some $2.3 billion, as part of a new share offering by the huge social network.
Business
Dec 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —When is a click not a click? When an advertising network registers a click on one of their online advertisements, how can it be sure that a single consumer – a "pair of eyeballs" in Madison Avenue jargon – ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 4, 2013
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Google-owned online ad-placing service DoubleClick on Friday announced that the way has been cleared to include space at Facebook.
Internet
Oct 19, 2013
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Now that the Internet's basic protocols are more than 30 years old, network scientists are increasingly turning their attention to ad hoc networks—communications networks set up, on the fly, by wireless devices—where ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 5, 2013
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Global spending on mobile Internet ads surged 82.8 percent to $8.9 billion in 2012, an industry survey showed Tuesday.
Business
Jul 9, 2013
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