Description: Software enabling IBM to find patterns in crime data is one of thousands of so-called smart-city projects aimed at improving urban services around the world Source: www.businessweek.com Date: December 5, 2011 Memphis Police Lieutenant Paul Wright arrived at a shooting scene in the city’s Frayser neighborhood on Nov. 17, just as an ambulance was… Read more »
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Keeping Up With Posts and Tweets Down East
Description: WHEN the phone rings at a call center inside a former department store here, it’s as much story time as sales time. As in: I was in Maine four summers ago. What’s it like in the winter? Or: Our dog ate my husband’s favorite slippers. Can you help me replace them before he finds… Read more »
Cellphones Test Strength of Gym Rules
Description: LIKE movie theaters and libraries, many fitness clubs have insisted for years that their workout areas should be cellphone-free. Source: www.nytimes.com Date: December 7, 2011 Their logic is as simple and straightforward as a push-up: they want to prevent people from yakking on their phones and annoying the fitness buffs who want to crank… Read more »
Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say
Description: Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions so frantic that it could eventually catch fire? Or use a hijacked printer as a copy machine for criminals, making it easy to commit identity theft or even take control of entire networks that would otherwise be secure? Source:… Read more »
Laptop Wi-Fi said to nuke sperm, but caveats abound
Description: The digital age has left men’s nether parts in a squeeze, if you believe the latest science on semen, laptops and wireless connections. Source: www.reuters.com Date: November 29, 2011 In a report in the venerable medical journal Fertility and Sterility, Argentinian scientists describe how they got semen samples from 29 healthy men, placed a… Read more »
Codecademy says it can turn anyone into a Web programmer
Description: It’s a tough economy out there, but there’s at least one skill in high demand: programming. Industry veterans insist that almost anyone can master the basics of software coding. Source: cnn.com Date: Nov 28, 2011 “Coding is going to be the literacy of the 21st Century, and we think we have the easiest way… Read more »
Minding Mobile Manners at Work
Description: A new Intel survey on mobile etiquette in the workplace finds user should execute more restraint. Source: cnn.com Date: Dec 2, 2011 Questions for discussion: Do mobile manners at work make a difference for the employee? 2. Who should set what are the right “mobile manners”?