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Dunkin' Donuts Opens Shop in Sims' Universe - 0 views

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shared by Ben Feigert on 19 Aug 11 - No Cached

Ben Feigert on 19 Aug 11

Players of The Sims on Facebook will now be able to buy, and give as gifts, coffee and donuts online.

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Stealing your identity in 45 minutes - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Robinson on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached

Nigel Robinson on 23 Mar 11

CNN's T.J. Holmes talks to a digital detective about how easy it is to track down your digital fingerprint.

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Sony Network Breach Shows Amazon Cloud's Appeal for Hackers - 2 views

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shared by Ben Feigert on 12 Sep 11 - No Cached

Protect Our Right to Anonymity - 0 views

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shared by Ben Feigert on 13 Sep 11 - No Cached

Ben Feigert on 13 Sep 11

An editorial arguing that government should *not* have the authority to surveil private citizens via GPS. Also that it's important to draw a sharp line now, before gov't goes farther into facial-recognition and internet-based surveillance.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An editorial arguing that government should *not* have the authority to surveil private citizens via GPS. Also that it's important to draw a sharp line now, before gov't goes farther into facial-recognition and internet-based surveillance.</div>

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In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Robinson on 23 Mar 11 - Cached

As the above illustration shows, the second missile from the right appears to be the sum of two other missiles in the image. The contours of the billowing smoke match perfectly near the ground, as well in the immediate wake of the missile. Only a small black dot in the reddish area of exhaust seems to differ from the missile to its left, though there are also some slight variations in the color of the smoke and the sky.
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Does Iran’s state media use Photoshop? The charge has been leveled before. So far, though, it can’t be said with any certainty whether there is any official Iranian involvement in this instance. Sepah apparently published the three-missile version of the image today without further explanation.
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Agence France-Presse retracted its four-missile version this morning, saying that the image was “apparently digitally altered” by Iranian state media. The fourth missile “has apparently been added in digital retouch to cover a grounded missile that may have failed during the test,” the agency said. Later, it published an article quoting several experts backing that argument.
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In a sentiment no doubt echoed by news organizations everywhere, an MSNBC editor acknowledged that the four-missile picture was initially welcomed with open arms. “As the media editor working the msnbc.com home page yesterday, I was frustrated with the quality of a fuzzy video image we published of the Iranian missile launch,” said Rich Shulman, the network’s associate multimedia editor. “So I was thrilled when the top image crossed the news wires.”
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HTTP Status Cats - a set on Flickr - 0 views

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Learn HTTP status codes and have a laugh as well

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Internet BitTorrent Spies | ZDNet - 0 views

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"Think no one knows what you've downloaded off the Internet with BitTorrent? Think again."

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Some Malls Tracking Shoppers Through Their Cell Phones This Holiday Season - 0 views

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shared by Ben Feigert on 25 Nov 11 - No Cached

Ben Feigert on 25 Nov 11

By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld Nov 25, 2011 9:06 AM For some mall shoppers, Black Friday has become Track Friday. Thanks to a snoopy piece of tech from a U.K. company called Path Intelligence, some malls in Europe, Australia, and the United States will be tracking shoppers' movements today through their cell phones.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld Nov 25, 2011 9:06 AM For some mall shoppers, Black Friday has become Track Friday. Thanks to a snoopy piece of tech from a U.K. company called Path Intelligence, some malls in Europe, Australia, and the United States will be tracking shoppers' movements today through their cell phones.</div>

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Netflix Instant Accounts For 20 Percent of Peak U.S. Bandwith Use | Epicenter... - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Robinson on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached

Streaming media — real-time entertainment — accounts for 43% of peak period traffic in the U.S., according to Sandvine, which helps ISPs manage their networks and thus has access to buckets of information about usage patterns. But Netflix alone accounts for nearly half of that between 8 and 10 p.m., and that usage comes from only 1.8 percent of the service’s subscribers.
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Per-user, Netflix is the heaviest user of downstream bandwidth in North America:
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Good news for Hulu, Amazon Unbox and even YouTube, should its movie rentals service gain traction. Better news for the content creators, assuming they can come up with a killer streaming revenue model and as if they needed any more proof that on-demand, internet delivery is the future. Bad news for cable and satellite
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But Hastings does see that streaming is the engine for Netflix now. “In fact, by every measure, we are now primarily a streaming company that also offers DVD-by-mail,” Hastings said
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“At the same time, the introduction of our streaming offering in Canada in late September has provided us with very encouraging signs regarding the potential for the Netflix service internationally.”
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Researchers Hack Into Cars' Electronics - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Robinson on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached

“These cellular channels offer many advantages for attackers,” the report said. “They can be accessed over arbitrary distance (due to the wide coverage of cellular data infrastructure) in a largely anonymous fashion, typically have relatively high bandwidth, are two-way channels (supporting interactive control and data exfiltration), and are individually addressable.”
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New services promise online life after death - CNN.com - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Robinson on 23 Mar 11 - Cached

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Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies - CNN.com - 0 views

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Daniel Salami on 06 Oct 11

RIP Steve Jobs

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Connected | An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology - 0 views

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“Examining everything from the Big Bang to Twitter… a cinematic clickstream…incredibly engaging!” -The New York Times
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- Nigel Robinson on 03 Oct 12
  
  This is a great resource for films about technology.
  
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Nigel Robinson on 04 Oct 11

This film is currently (Oct 2011) being screened in the US and around the world. However, it can be purchased for educational purposes. Check out the What's Next section of the site - http://connectedthefilm.com/interdependence/whatnext/

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This film is currently (Oct 2011) being screened in the US and around the world. However, it can be purchased for educational purposes. Check out the What's Next section of the site - <a href="http://connectedthefilm.com/interdependence/whatnext/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://connectedthefilm.com/interdependence/whatnext/</a> </div>

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The Electronic Wasteland - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Robinson on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached

Nigel Robinson on 23 Mar 11

Where do the millions of computer monitors, cell phones and other electronic refuse our society generates end up? Scott Pelley reports.

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