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Social apps 'harvest smartphone contacts'
...itter spokeswoman Carolyn Penner said. Currently, Twitter tells users that it "may customize your account with information such as a cellphone number for the delivery of SMS messages or your address book so that we can help you find Twitter users you know". Twitter informs iPhone users that it will "scan your contacts for people you already know on Twitter". However, the Los Angeles Times repor...
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Path Social Media App Uploads iOS Address Books to Its Servers
...quickly and effeciently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path. Nothing more. We believe that this type of friend finding & matching is important to the industry and that it is important that users clearly understand it, so we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our iOS Client,...
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ERF Workshop on 'EUROSURGE: Roadmap towards European Network of Surgical Robotics Laboratories'
... will be divided into three phases: the first summarizing the current status of EUROSURGE, the second with two keynote speakers, and presentations of different European research groups, and the third with a discussion to give suggestions and opinions about introducing modularity into robotic surgery. Further information: www.eurosurge.eu Planned follow-up: The EUROSURGE project will make all...
The Laws Marketers Need to Know to Avoid Legal Backlash
...motion/Affiliation In 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published revised guidelines to its FTC Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. The guidelines explain the conditions by which the FTC would find endorsements or testimonials unfair or deceptive. Per the FTC's guidelines, a positive review from a person connected to the seller -- or someone who...
How To Keep Apps Like Path From Accessing Your Contacts Data [Jailbreak]
...entirely until Path addresses the issue in an upcoming update. It’s common practice for third-party apps to access and even store your contacts elsewhere. The problem with Path is that there was no indication that this activity was taking place. Path’s CEO stated that the app would make the activity opt-in when the next update is pushed out. Thanks to a brand new jailbreak tweak, you’ll ne...
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Today in APIs: Most Retweets Ever, Newt's API? and 6 New APIs
...hosting management services, futures exchange, billing systems licensing service, original works copyright service, unofficial imdb service, . Below is more details on each of these new APIs. Flyhour API: FlyHour is a web site where users can be shown Youtube videos randomly to aid in music and new video discovery. Users also have the option to filter the videos shown by specific country, within...
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The NoSQL movement
...still in the relatively early stages. Hybrid architectures: NoSQL is really about architectural choice. And perhaps the biggest expression of architectural choice is a hybrid architecture: rather than using a single database technology, mixing and matching technologies to play to their strengths. I've seen a number of applications that use traditional ...
First Look: February 7
...k up into small pieces (called microwork), and then sent it to delivery centers in developing regions of the world for completion through a web-based interface. Different from traditional business process outsourcing companies, Samasource relied on a marginalized population of workers to execute the work. The case explores how the company can grow its capability to help individuals around the glob...
Serendipity Simpsons 500th Tonight The Simpsons will air its 500th...
...ng to be reasonable and consult with the non Cro-Magnon opposition, bigger things will be in store for Vic and the boys. According to the same article in the Sun.... Now that @vikileaks30 has retired his or her thumbs, life won't get any easier for Toews and his political handlers. A new menace has emerged to dog the government and its cyber-crime bill, called the Protecting Children from Internet...
Verizon and BT team up for collaboration; Vonage launches new mobile app
... WEBCAST: HP, Microsoft & Intel Database Consolidation and Building Your Private Cloud Please join guest speaker IDC Analyst Carl Olofson as he discusses Enterprise Data Center challenges and why database consolidation is import...
Business Breakfast Lecture
.... Always useful, always interesting. Today's lecture, delivered by Rob Popsys, life coach for Willcando, focused on the topic of social networking: itself a fascinating topic. Not the online variety, where your efforts to make your name known are subsumed beneath an avalanche of requests to join you on FarmVille, but the kind of social networking where you meet people and shake hands and swap busi...
TCEA 2012 Recap
...ve the teacher one thing that will work in his or her classroom instead of trying to cram more into a session. Find ways to publicly applaud successes. For example a tech laggard, when applauded for some tech accomplishment on the district website will be more likely to try something else. Do an unconference with teachers on PD day. Have the teachers come up with their own 30-45 minute t...
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: Part 3 Visit to Earth
...his property on ceremonial occasions. Mannie thinks it's rather pointless and silly, but Prof wants it. "Manuel, once there was a man who held a political make-work job... shining brass cannon around a courthouse." "Why would courthouse have cannon?" "Never mind. He did this for years. It fed him and let him save a bit, but he was not getting ahead in the world. So one day he quit his...
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Just How Dangerous Is Path Really?
...sses are how they tell one John Smith apart from another. It's how they know which John Smith to recommend to you. Where Path erred was in not letting people know this was how they did their matching magic. Also, they used a built in iPhone developer command to download the entire address book onto their server the moment folks signed up to the service. Whoops. As convenient as this user search pr...
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Guest Article: Techniques for matching patient record data across disparate EHRs and other systems
...atching more difficult. Absorbing the costs to develop and enable this identifier across systems – Costs would need to be incurred to develop, maintain and put the identifier into use across systems. 2. State-Issued Number An organization can use another state-Issued number such as a state of issuance and birth certificate number. Benefits of this method include: Development cost savings – ...
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What Makes Facebook Social Games So Popular?
...mers alone spent $600 million worth of virtual goods via social gaming revenue. Zynga, EA, and Wooga are the big developers. Walt Disney, EA, and Google have bought smaller developers in order to get in the game. Pun intended. The Haters The console video game market is sad – 33% of gamers have said that their console gameplay has declined since they started playing games on social network...
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BOOSTING SOCIAL WORKER PRODUCTIVITY
...potential savings of over £300,000 by introducing mobile working. This included savings of 2.5 hours per social worker, per week from saved travel time, a reduction in time typing up notes, and savings on mileage claims (approximately 20 miles per week, however, rural areas can generate even greater travel savings). In the current climate, these savings cannot simply be overlooked. In addition to...
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Productivity in a Networked era: Not Your Father's ROI
...r value. In a networked, information-based environment, shareholders value brand, reputation, ideas, relationships and know-how. These assets don’t appear on the balance sheet, but more and more often they provide a corporation’s competitive edge. These most important aspects of the business aren’t recognized by old-school accounting and therefore aren’t factored into ROI calculations. Or...
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Path, Hipster and Developer Trust
...ing on the Internet, and I never have been. I’ve given my credit card information to multiple companies, and although it has bitten me back a few times, it’s never been such a dilemma that I wondered if I could pay the bills on Monday. That said, my personal information is sacred to me, and I take that pretty seriously. Now I understand the hypocrisy here. Yes, I have a Facebook page and m...
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Google Moving Towards One Uniform Service
...r needs. The websites also want to know what users enjoy so they can direct specifically-targeted ads toward them. These advertising methods are known as affiliate marketing techniques. There are many affiliate marketing companies who want to help their clients find key parties who are interested in the client’s industry. One such company, Capital Online Revenue, Inc., helps train onli...
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