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Archives: Communication Technology
Kindle Says E-Books Selling as Hot as This Summer Is
Reading is a healthy habit. There is a strong association between education and health status.Kindles, electronic library devices, are selling hot. Why should anyone be interested in this if they are interested in health? Because these devices are one more way to find reliable health or medical information. Books are holding their own but the real news about Kindle is that it is friendly to all ages, can deliver you a book at 2 a.m. in seconds and is doctor’s waiting room friendly.
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Friending the Flu: Social Networks May Reveal Outbreaks Before Traditional Forecasts, Researchers Say
This excerpt is from a report posted on arXiv, an online repository of research papers, housed at Cornell University.
The research is intended to examine social networks and whether or not they can predict outbreaks of infectious illnesses.
It is fascinating reading. Check it out.
The Economist
“CHANCES are your friends are more popular than you are. It [...]
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How Do I Delete Facebook Account? Google Searches Up
One of the favorite Google searches is the…”how do I…?”
As of yesterday, an entry of “how do I…” displayed “delete Facebook account” as number five, after “how do I get pregnant?”
Here is how to delete your Facebook account if you have thought it over and decided to end it, according to this website about the [...]
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Formspring.me Is “Online Bathroom Wall in School”…Been Under Parents’ Radar
Bullying, in all of its forms, has become a growing research interest in pediatrics and adolescent medicine because its impact can be measured, perhaps, better than before.
Kids who have been bullied under-report it to parents or teachers. Nobody likes a tattletale, for one thing, and reporting can lead to, yes, more bullying.
Besides, they often say [...]
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“What Is Personal Data?” Expert Explains Facebook and Privacy
This writer of the Geek dad column for Wired explains what you need to know to understand what personal data is to a company like Facebook—and what else you need to know, as the fury continues over breaches of privacy.
Wired
…”the backlash to the recent changes and integration of Facebook across multiple sharing networks [...]
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When You Are Sitting in the Hospital…and Your File Is On Your Work Computer…Here Are Three Tools to Help
A civil lawyer I know, facing what may be the biggest trial of his career, also had a mother who was receiving cancer treatment.
He sat in her hospital room with her and kept cranking out the research, which then turned into the biggest binders available to go with him and his co-counsel on the date [...]
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Does Cell Phone Use Affect Our Bodies? Largest-Ever Study Seeks to Find Out
There is no news here—rather there is information we need—and do not have.
Mobile phones began as shoe-box sized, expensive devices. Today they do…what don’t they do?
This new study will be the largest safety study for cell phones. It also will be the longest-running, with the expectation that it will go at least two or three [...]
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Teens Turn to Texting as Favorite Way to Communicate, Pew Study Says
Texting is winning the hearts, minds and thumbs of teenagers. Texting rules!
That’s what a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project tells us.
Texting has overtaken phone calls, instant messaging (shocking, but true) and social networking (also shocking, but true).
The study says girls usually send 80 texts per day.
Boys typically send 30 texts [...]
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Check Out Sites Which Check Out Best Air Fares…Illness Seldom Comes at Convenient Times
This item is a review of airfare sites and their strengths and weaknesses.
As airfares have come down, there no longer are special rates for people who must fly with little or no notice to be with someone who is seriously ill.
The fare is the fare, whether your father just died or not.
At times like these, [...]
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Sophisticated Companies Vulnerable to Cyber-Criminals…”Ineffective”
Calling all technical wizards.
If it is possible—a serious question—to devise a means to block criminal invasions of computers at sophisticated companies, the person who designs that security program will be almost as rich as Bill Gates.
A fortune may await you. Our security depends on better tools than are available today even in the most sophisticated [...]
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