Washington Post:
Q: I am thinking of replacing my four-year-old Garmin GPS unit with a newer Garmin that includes free lifetime traffic data and MSN Direct. Would that ease my holiday drives?
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FT.com - Simon Kuper:
The search is still on for the best data to evaluate players and the holy grail would be discovering the key to victory, writes Simon Kuper. (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
from Google Reader:
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 (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
Peripherals, they say, are the spice of life. Well, maybe they don't say that, but they do say it about variety, and peripherals add variety to your computing life. If you're reading this on a stock HP desktop, clicking on li (Read More)
Washington Post:
Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research a (Read More)
feeds.washingtonpost.com:
Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research a (Read More)
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 (Read More)
Gizmodo:
This video shows Earth's weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA's GEOS-5 atmospheric general c (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it's going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators's latest statement, I'm not so sure (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Virginia:
Unemployment in the District soared to a record high of 11.9 percent in October, according to government data released Friday, ranking it among California, Nevada, Michigan and other states with the highest jobless rates. (Read More)
Engadget:
Dynamic Controls has just taken the wraps off of its new iPhone application which should be of great interest to those who use a wheelchair on a daily basis. The application -- which connects with the wheelchair via Bluetooth (Read More)
FT.com - Margaret McCartney:
Margaret McCartney is astonished that for all the data collected in medicine the collection of better information on new drugs is not prioritised. (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
If there is one thing about the tech blogosphere it is its predictability. Just as you could predict the almost breathless press that surround Google’s announcement that yes they were working on an operating system, yes they (Read More)
Screenwerk:
Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo said this morning at the TechCrunch CrunchUp event that he felt the “geo opportunity” was “huge.”The location-stamping or geocoding of content and the release of that data to third parties (online a (Read More)
Schneier on Security:
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-se (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
from Google Reader:
Lawmakers Thursday questioned whether businesses are amassing too much data about consumers without their knowledge or consent. We have... (Read More)
Overheid 2.0 op del.icio.us:
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
from Google Reader:
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 magitam
from Google Reader:
The Online OECD Employment database brings together data and indicators constructed to support the analyses presented in various editions of the OECD Employment Outlook . It contains a number of datasets describing the labour (Read More)
www.ft.com:
A sustained increase in retail sales for the past three months has renewed optimism that the UK economy will show growth in the fourth quarter. (Read More)