Twitter breaks Chinese earthquake news

The Globe and Mail's Mathew Ingram wrote about Twitter's news breaking success today as well.   If you don't read Mathew's blog it's worth checking out for a Canadian perspective on technology.  Here's what Mathew had to say today:""Like many others, I woke up...

Robots to swarm English village in huge contest

I would love to see this in person. The world is saturated with robots and yet somehow they never seem to descend upon a single geographical point. via Mez Breeze, unrivalled finder of the bizarre."A village in England will host a robot hide-and-seek exercise next month, when...

Real Scoop: Television Pundit Analyzer

This is kind of interesting...""RealScoop utilizes leading voice analysis technology to analyze statements made by public figures. The BELIEVABILITY METER™ analyzes each video second by second, displaying the real-time results in a color-coded manner from left to right. The...

Beyond beds [ Mayor Newsom Stalling Shelter Standards Law

San Francisco homeless residents cannot understand why Mayor Gavin Newsom is stalling ?   If he was at the table for the past nine months and 2 years, like everyone else, we could have passed this last week and ended suffering,  immediately start reducing 20 to...

QuickTime Vulnerability Experienced In Mac OS X Too

"The QuickTime vulnerability disclosed in the Windows version of QuickTime last week also affects Mac OS X, Symantec said yesterday. According to additional research by Symantec's security response team, the Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) bug in QuickTime is also present...

NIKSUN announces NetOmni - real-time global view into network

""It is an exciting time," continues Dr. Pruthi. "With modern high- bandwidth networks carrying heterogeneous information over the wire at blistering speeds, it is important for security providers to match solutions with enterprise thinking on the logic graph. That is what...

How to stay famous. Lindsay Lohan,Britney,Victoria Beckham,Paris Hilton do

"How to stay famous. Lindsay Lohan,Britney,Victoria Beckham,Paris Hilton do How do they stay famous? Unless you are Madonna, Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan or even Donald Trump. The technique they use to stay famous, is to take away all of their publicists time...

Are teens stealing premium content to place on YouTube?

"Are teens stealing premium content to place on YouTube? Are the studios coming after the teens that posted the premium content that they are not authorised to post? The studios might be going after Facebook and Myspace accounts of teens around the world. The kids today have...

Schools are allowing outsiders to arrest students on campus for file sharing

"Schools are allowig outsiders to arrest students on campus for file sharing Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and the USA Group have been following the court cases of file sharing of illegal content over the internet, and came across the new alarming article by Melissa...

Is Describing The Sporting Event You're Watching Copyright Infringement?

The world is becoming more absurd by the day.   When did we lose possession of our own experiences?"Last year, we noted that as various professional sports leagues were becoming increasingly ruthless in claiming ownership over any data associated with a sporting...