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Excerpts from John Wilbanks:“Far too often the focus on “porting” open source to science focuses on the legal aspects rather than performing an analysis of the infrastructure for science. Science is actually not very similar to modern software at this point. In science, especially life science, many of these factors don’t e (Read More)
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Ars Technica:
The things people post on Facebook have gotten them in trouble with spouses, their employers, the law (or not, as the case may be), and now their insurance companies. A 29-year-old Canada woman is now battling her insurance company, Manulife, after her sick leave benefits were revoked thanks to photos she p (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb:
Over the past decade, Amazon.com and eBay have continued to dominate the online retail market in the United States. However, there have been signs that more social and distributed forms of online shopping are gaining traction. eBay, in particular, is beginning to lose ground. In this post, we review the past decade of e-com (Read More)
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By James KobielusBusiness is all about placing bets and knowing if the oddsare in your favor. As I noted in my mostrecent Forrester report, business success depends on your company beingable to visualize likely futures and take appropriate actions as soon aspossible. You must be able to predict future scenarios well enough (Read More)
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(CBS) In the series, "Someone is Watching You," "Early Show" consumer correspondent Susan Koeppen took a look into the growing number of surveillance cameras that are popping up and capturing people's daily activities. Is all this technology costing us our privacy?Koeppen remarked that cameras today are advanced; they can (Read More)
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Judy Greenwald reports:The University of Akron is expected to soon rescind a controversial rule that lets the university demand DNA samples from job applicants as part of a criminal background check.Observers say the requirement—believed to be the first genetic testing rule imposed by an employer—violates the Genetic Inform (Read More)
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VentureBeat:
With the help of close friends and family, 16-year-old Charles Allatt, has launched Vye Music, an online meta search app for music files around the Net. The site pulls search results from other music sites — including Skreemr, MP3Codes, and 4Shared Music, sites which in turn index hundreds of thousands of sites, blogs and a (Read More)
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Submitted by Louisgray
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The Twitter team has been busy lately, introducing lists and updating them with descriptions and changing their catchphrase to a more social-oriented “What’s happening?”. The latest beta feature to be rolled out to users is the popular Retweet function, although somewhat different from what third-party client offered so f (Read More)
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Submitted by Jgmize
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We are putting together a workshop called FutureLabCamp in Boston in early 2010. The focus is building the future of science laboratories with open source hardware and software, low-cost and DIY instruments, cloud computing, and the internet of things. We’re bringing together hardware hackers, HCI wizards, standards builde (Read More)
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VentureBeat:
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: Apps don’t make your phone special — “It’s not the applications available on the various platforms that will be the differentiators, Ozzie said, even though that’s what (Read More)
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: Facebook has a deletion policy, which I didn't see in Twitter's privacy policy.
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ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the (Read More)
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advertising,
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Submitted by Logicalextremes
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People might be more identifiable than previously thought fromsupposedly anonymised information contained in large databases,according to a technology law expert. New research recommends thatprivacy practices and even privacy laws need to change. Increasing amounts of personal information are collected byorgani (Read More)
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Submitted by Logicalextremes
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As the federal government readies the third iteration of Einstein, privacy concerns over the intrusion detection system were voiced at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.Philip Reitinger, Department of Homeland Security deputy undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, told the Senate Committee on the Jud (Read More)
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Submitted by Logicalextremes
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When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and plumbing — are nothing new in the entertainment business, but they almost always end in disappointmen (Read More)
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: That’s one funny thing about the Internet: it’s an extraordinarily rich communications system, but as an information and entertainment medium, it encourages private consumption. The pictures and sounds served up through our PCs, iPods and smart phones absorb us deeply but in isolation. Even when we’re together today, we’re often apart, peering into our own screens.
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