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FBI Sentinel System Finally Goes Live, 6 Years and $451M Later
Finally, the FBI is getting with the times. It might be $26 million over budget and have arrived 30 months later the planned, but at long last the Sentinel case management system is up and running. Sentinel is a digital records storage system has been designed to replace paper files. The system, which uses a ...
Craigslist Puts Its Foot Down With “Exclusive” Terms
If you want to advertise something for sale on craigslist, you’re now going to have to make sure you don’t post it anywhere else. That only applies of course, if you give damn about the rules. Apparently, the online classifieds website has just added a new user agreement, which states that any listing posted on ...
Twitter Has 500 Million Users, But Most Are Worthless
Are there really 500 million users on Twitter, as the analyst group Semiocast claims? One of the problems of measuring usage on any social media site is that the frequency with which users “use” various different networks tends to fluctuate quite a bit from one person to the next. Add to that, we have the ...
80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Coming from Bots?
Businesses that want to advertise on Facebook had better think twice before getting their wallets out, following claims that as many as 80% of clicks on Facebook ads are coming from bots instead of humans. Limited Run, a start-up that offers a sales platform for musicians and record labels, says that it’s halting its Facebook ...
Census Bureau Unveils Public API For Apps Developers
The US Census Bureau has just made its wealth of demographic, socio-economic and housing data more accessible than ever before, with the launch of its first public API. Launched last Thursday, the API will surely lead to endless possibilities for developers of mobile and web applications. Developers will be able to access two Census Bureau ...
HP Commercial Reveals Possible Glimpse of New Windows 8 Tablet
It’s no secret that HP, along with several other companies, are working behind the scenes to come up with a Windows 8 tablet in time for the OS’s launch this fall, so could it be that they’ve just leaked a sneak peak of their device on a new YouTube commercial? The new “Make it Matter” ...
Strange Big Data: Sex Intelligence
It’s true, humans are sexual creatures. If there’s one common bond that’s shared by all of humanity, it’s our instinctive urge to have sex. From the moment we hit puberty and our hormones start surging, we dedicate a huge portion of our time pursuing one mission only – to find sexual partners. We think about ...
North Korea Gets Its Own Tablet Device
Normally, reports of the North Koreans launching something send western governments into a mad panic, with emergency meetings being hastily convened and threats of sanctions issued. However, the latest launch by the secretive communist regime will probably have much less of an impact this time around, for instead of weapons of mass destruction, this time ...
Fake Twitter Followers: Stupidity or Something More Sinister?
Buying fake Twitter followers to boost your credibility is nothing new, but could the same tactic also be used in reverse – e.g., to smear your rivals in public? Following the revelation that Mitt Romney gained an astonishing 140,000 new followers over the weekend, critics were quick to accuse the Republican candidate of purchasing fake ...
Romney And Iran Find Common Ground: They Can’t Stop Internet Porn
Mitt Romney probably doesn’t see himself as the kind of man who’s willing to make too many concessions to Iran any more than the rest of us do, but could it be that the two ‘entities’ have more in common than they like to admit? For one thing, Romney and the Iranian mullahs both share ...
