Submitted by Idea North
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TechCrunch:
Keith Teare was hanging around the Real-Time CrunchUp today showing off his newest project – Speedi.ly. What does Speedi.ly do? One thing, very well and at scale. Speedi.ly takes a piece of content, or grabs the content from a URL, and analyzes it. It does this very fast and it outputs some key data. Speedi.ly tells you th (Read More)
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)
Ecademy: user blogs:
Q: I admit that the world in which I live is not the real world. But there is a real world, of which I see a distorted picture. The distortion may be due to some blemish in my body or mind. But when you say there is no real world, only a dream world in my mind, I just cannot take it. I wish I could believe that all horrors (Read More)
Ecademy: user blogs:
How Positive Are You Really? Take this 2 minute Research Test.Do you really have a handle on your emotions or don't you have a clue?Let's face it SOMETIMES we don't have a clue...how do you think we get into arguments?CheersSAM Sam BorrettMaster Mentor, Entrepreneur, FacilitatorMentoring4Change.comJupiter Properties Pty. Lt (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
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This is one conclusion of a study from UC Davis and the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives in Palo Alto, which looked at 400 of the largest publicly held companies in California to see how many of them had women board members or executives.They didn’t find many — women hold only 10.6% of the board seats and execut (Read More)
Submitted by Logicalextremes
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Version 2.0 of my Force-TLS add-on for Firefox was released by the AMO editors on Tuesday, and in incorporates a few important changes: It supports the Strict-Transport-Security header introduced by PayPal, and also has an improved UI that lets you add/remove sites from the forced list. For more information see my Force-T (Read More)
Submitted by Rexhammock
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Google, accused by some as being a book thief, now has company — the Associated Press. The AP patted itself on the back in an internal memo that detailed how it scanned a copy of Sarah Palin’s book without permission, to make it searchable.The irony is rich. The AP hasn’t taken a stance against Google Book Search that I k (Read More)
Submitted by Logicalextremes
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Over at Kent Online we learn that an astute commuter has established through Southeastern Rail's complaints procedure that some of their CCTV cameras are always switched off - not because of technical problems but as a matter of policy. I mention it because, as I've written before, we can develop a false sense of security b (Read More)
Submitted by Logicalextremes
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Interesting:The researchers say they've found a vulnerability in U.S. law enforcement wiretaps, if only theoretical, that would allow a surveillance target to thwart the authorities by launching what amounts to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the connection between the phone company switches and law enforcement.[.. (Read More)
Submitted by Logicalextremes
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Adversaries could hack into systems to change patient data as a way to create fear in the U.S. population during wartime, a technology manager tells an Health and Human Services panel. (Read More)
Submitted by Logicalextremes
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Seventy-nine percent of senior IT executives believe growth in collaboration software applications has increased the likelihood of data breaches. (Read More)
Submitted by Logicalextremes
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Associated Press counsel calls proposed reporter pools, restrictions on interviews on North Carolina base 'unlawful and unacceptable.'. (Read More)
Xconomy:
IT, deals, acquisitions Wade Roush wrote: Framingham, MA-based Punchbowl Software, the company behind party planning site MyPunchbowl.com, said today that it has acquired the assets of I’m In, a group vacation website formerly owned by Waltham, MA-based GroupGo. Punchbowl’s founder and CEO Matt Douglas says the large d (Read More)
Smashing Apps:
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the simplest online web designer’s web apps that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them wh (Read More)