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AT&T Launches DriveMode App To Promote Safe Driving
With almost 100,000 car accidents resulting in injury or death each year due to people texting whilst driving, AT&T has taken it upon itself to raise awareness of the problem, launching a new campaign and mobile application to encourage people to stop. The new public awareness effort is from AT&T is part of its ongoing ...
Germany Gets Tough On Facebook Facial Recognition
Data protection officials in Germany have demanded that Facebook destroy its entire archive of files based on facial recognition technology, accusing it of breaking European laws by compiling a vast photo-database of its users without their consent. The demand follows the reopening of an investigation that was suspended in June of this year, after German ...
SalamWorld, A Social Network For Those Who Appreciate Islamic Values
Religious types who are fed up with all the sleazy images posted onto Facebook will soon have an altogether more conservative platform to help them while away the hours – a new social network with a distinctly Islamic flavor. SalamWorld, as the network is called, is set for its big launch in November with the ...
Hurricanes Loom Ominously Over The Cloud
The USA is no stranger to extreme weather, the sweltering hot summer alone is proof of that. And now, with the 2012 hurricane season now upon us, those living on the east and gulf coasts are bracing themselves for storms that have the potential to quite literally tear the house down. Anyone else who is ...
Gauss Malware Proves Too Tough For Kaspersky To Crack
Fancy a go at cracking some malware codes? If you think you have what it takes, Kaspersky might just be interested to hear from you. You might recall the web security firm’s announcement last week that it had stumbled across yet another malicious code that’s infecting computers in the Middle East. Nicknamed ‘Gauss’, Kaspersky said ...
Saudi Arabia Wants to Block Use of .gay, .sex and .africamagic Internet Domains
Saudi Arabia is attempting to put the skids on the sale of a number of new, top-level internet domains that are among almost 2,000 that companies have registered an interest in buying. According to reports, Saudi Arabia’s Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has voiced dozens of objections to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ...
How “Creepy” Big Data is Slowly Transforming Our Awareness
Vitamin supplements, cotton buds, baby lotion, soap, wash cloths… Sounds like a pretty innocuous shopping list right? Sure, these are the kinds of items that pretty much every woman in the world buys at some time or other, but buy them all at the same time and in the right quantities, and they become something ...
WikiLeaks Bounces Back With Reverse Proxy Protection Against DDoS Attacks
It’s business as usual once again for the folks at WikiLeaks (if such a thing is possible) as the document-sharing site appears to be back online following a sustained distribute denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted for more than one week. Julian Assange and his team will no doubt be extending an almighty “thank ...
New IBM Kenya Research Lab Seeks Low-Cost Solution To Nairobi’s Traffic Problems
IBM is teaming up with Kenya’s Ministry for Information, Communication and Technology to establish an IT research lab in Nairobi, which is said to be the first of its kind on the African continent. The lab, which is set to open sometime next month, will focus on solving problems such as traffic congestion, as well ...
Google Gets Frommer’s, Rivals Get Mad
There’s just no stopping Google in its bid to become the world’s number one travel agent. Hot on the heels of its purchase of restaurant review site Zagat last year, the search engine giant is now reported to be interested in acquiring the travel website Frommer’s. As search evolves into a more convenient, more personalized ...
