Former professional journalist turned citizen journalist and professional Web Designer discussing the world of technology, culture and the two converging.
As Barack Obama made history, Twitter sustained record-breaking activity on its microblogging service as voters across the globe tweeted their election night reactions.
“We’ve yet to do a full analysis for election day, but last night we saw messages per second peak at about 2-3 times what they did during the first presidential debate — which [...]
The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown “foreign entity,” prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer virus—a case of “phishing,” a form of hacking often employed [...]
Viacom faces a number of challenges, chief among them is the fact that its cash cow networks, MTV, VH1 and BET, are having ratings problems.
The company claims that ratings have gone soft because teens and 20-somethings are are tired of repeat programming. The solution, according to chief executive Philippe Dauman, is to “increase the amount [...]
A team of scientists from the United States and China announced last week that, for the first time, they had found a means of selectively and safely erasing memories in mice, using the signaling molecule ?CaMKII. It’s a big step forward, and one that will be of considerable interest to the military, which has devoted [...]
The Internal Revenue Service deployed two major computer applications despite known security vulnerabilities that put taxpayer information and other sensitive data at risk, according to a report from the IRS inspector general released on Thursday.
Comment on this article in The Forum.The IG concluded in a September annual audit that security weaknesses in the agency’s updated [...]
Yahoo unveiled a free web analytics service for its e-commerce customers and others who work closely with Yahoo. Though it is not yet widely available, the pressure of Google’s similar offering means we’ll all likely have access to it eventually.
As Google Analytics came from an acquisition, so did Yahoo Web Analytics. Yahoo acquired IndexTools in [...]
This bird’s-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.
The 4,300-pound satellite collected the image at noon EDT on Oct. 7 while moving from the north pole to the south pole [...]
When I was on the high school debate team, about 15 years ago, using the Internet was considered strange, if not cheating. We used photocopy machines, print magazines and academic journals almost exclusively. That time in the world’s history is now gone forever.
When Sarah Palin and Joe Biden debated in front of one of the [...]
What is ACTA?
In October 2007 the United States, the European Community, Switzerland and Japan simultaneously announced that they would negotiate a new intellectual property enforcement treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada have joined the negotiations. Although the [...]
LOS ANGELES - The engineer of a Metrolink commuter train sent a text message 22 seconds before the collision with a freight train in Los Angeles last month that killed 25 people, federal investigators said Wednesday.
The National Transportation Safety Board said that cell phone records of Robert Sanchez show he received a text message a [...]
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