DRP 2010

"Civilization Revolution" was launched in 2008 for gaming consoles, now it is coming to Facebook.

Hoping to match rival Apple's successful foray into retailing, Microsoft opened its first store in Scottsdale, Arizona on October 22, 2009

Cybercriminals are targeting social networks. The Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 72,000 complaints about Internet fraud in 2008.

Circulation at newspapers shrank at an accelerated pace in the past six months, driven in part by stiff price increases imposed by publishers scrambling to offset rapidly eroding advertising sales. Average daily circulation at 379 U.S. newspapers plunged 10.6 percent in the April-September period from the same six-month stretch last year, according to figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Facebook just made one of the biggest changes to the site's user experience since the introduction of the News Feed three years ago. How are companies dealing with the problem of Information Overload?

The goal is to create a more 'open' Facebook and let developers feel their users/customers are actually their own, rather than just Facebook's.

Twitter developers have added new functionality, called Lists, that allows users to create lists of users. Twitter has turned on Lists, which is in beta, for about a quarter of all users and plans to roll out the functions to all accounts.

Twittter warned Wednesdasy of a new round of phishing attacks on the social media site.

News Analysis: Microsoft's recently launched Bing Twitter site is indexing tweets in real time. Not to be outdone, Google promises that Twitter content will be integrated into Google's search results page in a few months. Yahoo is allegedly working on real-time search with startup OneRiot. What are the implications?

Two top botnet gangs are bombarding Facebook members with targeted phishing emails. They're hoping to get control of members' Facebook and other accounts -- a rising type of cybercrime.There is nothing Facebook can do, beyond warning its members, to slow...

The popular social networking site recently redesigned its news feed. And that's made a lot of Facebook users very, very angry.

This is an overview of the development of the digital research infrastructure in Arts and Humanities in Slovenia. The aim of the case study is to identify the development of the digital humanities infrastructure, to map all relevant recommendations, strategies, initiatives and key figures supporting and enabling the development of (future) policies. The main focus is on the development process itself; identifying individual initiatives, ideas, strategies, collaborations, accomplishments, references and the obstacles encountered. The paper includes a comparative component - considering developments in Slovenia within a broader EU and non‐EU context. Programme Seventh Framework Programme Specific Capacities

The Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University kindly organized the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, which was held in the beautiful island of Corfu, Greece from September 27 to October 2, 2009. The general theme of the conference was "Digital Societies".

Social networking, is really about people as sensors.Google Social Search is designed to let searches return traditional results along with updates and tweets that users' friends and other people they follow on various social networks have posted.

Instead of the 20,000 books the school currently has, the students of Cushing Academy will have 18 e-readers at their disposal. The learning centre - the replacement for what was once the school's library - will also have three large TVs, a coffee shop, and laptop-friendly booths.

Andrew Keen writes about whether to buy the Kindle now or wait for the appearance of the Apple touchtablet device rumored to be released early next year

Writing and reading - from newspapers to novels, academic reports to gossip magazines - are migrating ever faster to digital screens, like laptops, Kindles and cellphones.

Iraqi refugees in Syria will receive UN food vouchers through text messages on mobile phones. Can this program really work? I have doubt about that.

The overall Internet population is more than one trillion. The top 5 countries with the most Internet users are: China, US, Japan, India and Brazil.

Copyright owner surely can get greater value from independent and not-so -popular products.