Posts Tagged ‘information technology’

Freedom or repression: Twitter goes both ways

PENN STATE (US) — Twitter, Facebook, and text messaging were used both as tools for freedom and as weapons of repression in recent civil strife in Egypt and Kenya. Continue…

Thursday, September 29, 2011 14:58 - 0 Comments

Arab Spring: Revolution goes viral

U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US) — Social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring, according to an analysis of millions of tweets and YouTube posts. (more…)

Science & Technology - May 5, 2011 12:39 - 1 Comment

GPS moves cars to go greener

U. ILLINOIS (US) — In addition to the fastest and shortest routes, a new software interface that works like a GPS is able to calculate the most fuel-efficient route, too. (more…)

Society & Culture - Apr 14, 2011 9:36 - 1 Comment

Real-time search worth $30M a day

PENN STATE (US) — Updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other real-time content sites could be worth more than $30 million a day—or nearly $10.9 billion a year—to advertisers. (more…)

Science & Technology - Apr 7, 2011 11:52 - 0 Comments

Picture digital data on a massive scale

U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — By 2014, the National Archives and Records Administration expects to house more than 35 petabytes (quadrillions of bytes) of electronic data. Modern archivists face a daunting task: manage and make sense of it all. (more…)

Science & Technology - Mar 15, 2011 12:09 - 0 Comments

Communication gets speedy switch-up

NORTHWESTERN (US) — An ultrafast quantum Internet where encrypted information is completely secure may become reality following the development of a switching device that could also succeed in networking superfast quantum computers. (more…)

Science & Technology - Oct 25, 2010 16:59 - 6 Comments

Busted! Astroturf campaign on Twitter

INDIANA U.(US) — The website Truthy.indiana.edu has uncovered one of the most egregious examples of a Twitter-based political astroturfing campaign. (more…)

Society & Culture - Oct 25, 2010 12:34 - 0 Comments

Viral videos traced back to 2 blogs

U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US) — Common wisdom might suggest a posse of political blogs triggers a video’s potential to get viewed by millions, but new research shows just two elite blogs influence a video’s virality. (more…)

Society & Culture - May 14, 2010 17:15 - 0 Comments

Virtual appearance matters to men

INDIANA U. (US)—In a recent study, men’s decisions were strongly affected by certain appearance aspects of computer-generated women, such as jerky movements, while women’s decisions were not. (more…)

Society & Culture - Apr 23, 2010 12:23 - 4 Comments

Female community college grads earn less

IOWA STATE (US)—Women who completed community college associate degrees earn far less in business, marketing, and information technology (IT) careers than men who did not complete their degrees, a new study finds. (more…)

Society & Culture - Apr 12, 2010 15:25 - 4 Comments

Digital sink or swim for college undergrads

U. OREGON (US)—Students entering college either have it or they don’t—and which side of the digital divide they fall on may shape what career path they take. (more…)

Society & Culture - Mar 8, 2010 16:44 - 2 Comments

Is your computer calling the shots?

U. LEEDS (UK)—People who use computers to help them make good decisions are often unwittingly being led by technology into making bad ones. (more…)

Society & Culture - Dec 10, 2009 19:01 - 1 Comment

Politicians mean what they say—really!

PENN STATE (US)—Although politicians are often criticized for making empty promises, when it comes to their voting records, their words may carry more weight than previously thought. -

Society & Culture - Dec 9, 2009 11:43 - 7 Comments

Googling God

PENN STATE (US)—Online searches of a spiritual nature are not on the decline in the United States despite that fact that most search engines perform poorly in response to religious queries, researchers find. (more…)

Science & Technology - Nov 30, 2009 13:43 - 6 Comments

Computer learns to think like a child

U. PENN (US)—Computer scientist Ben Taskar says one of the biggest stumbling blocks in terms of artificial intelligence is the fact that computers learn slower than children. (more…)

Society & Culture - Nov 23, 2009 17:20 - 4 Comments

Learning powered by search engines

PENN STATE (US)—Using Internet search engines is no longer just a daily convenience, but has evolved to become part of the learning process as well, according to new research. (more…)

Society & Culture - Nov 10, 2009 16:25 - 0 Comments

Contracts with wiggle room build trust

“Attempting to specify all potential changes and change processes through complex clauses in the contract only serves to tie the hands of the two parties,” says Rajiv Kishore. “This may reduce the trust of the two parties in each other.”

Society & Culture - Oct 15, 2009 16:59 - 0 Comments

Giving away privacy by sharing online?

DUKE (US)—Millions of Internet users have been enjoying the fun—and free—services provided by advertiser-supported online social networks like Facebook. But are those users risking their privacy? (more…)

Society & Culture - Aug 31, 2009 13:12 - 1 Comment

Pay attention, multitaskers!

“When [multitaskers are] in situations where there are multiple sources of information coming from the external world or emerging out of memory, they’re not able to filter out what’s not relevant to their current goal,” says psychologist Anthony Wagner. “That failure to filter means they’re slowed down by that irrelevant information.”

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