- Social Networking
- People spend more time on Facebook than any other Web site
- Author releases novel — 140 characters at a time on Twitter
- Most Facebook users are older, study finds
- Second Life Data Offers Window Into How Trends Spread
- THE TECH CHRONICLES / Facebook tidies up privacy settings
- Idiocracy (XKCD mockery of it)
- Exit Poll Leaks: Could Twitter Influence the German Election?
- Study: Top CEOs still shunning Twitter, Facebook
- Virtual Reality, Education
- Researchers Mull STEM Gender Gap
- Beating the Bullies–Changing Real-World Behaviour Through Virtual Experience
- Internet-based therapy shows promise for insomnia
- Bringing Girls and Boys to Computer Science With ‘Alice’
- The Importance of Order: German Researchers Tackle Untidy Desks
- Rights, Privacy
- Orwell in 2009: Dystopian Rights Management
- Azerbaijani blogger arrests prompts backlash
- States ask FCC’s OK to jam prison cell phones
- Digital book free for a month
- Cell phone ring tones spark copyright questions
- High court won’t block remote storage DVR system
- IBM Claims Privacy Breakthrough for Cloud, Data
- Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age
- HCI
- Computers May Be Able to ‘Read’ Thoughts
- The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?
- Beyond–Way Beyond–WIMP Interfaces
- The Pathologies of Big Data
- Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair
- Traveling the Web Together
- Magnet and Glue Turn Tongue Into Joystick
- Security
- Concerns that L.A. might use Google services
- Microsoft delivers 9 patches, but leaves one hole open
- Dimwitted thieves steal fake cell phones in Mexico
- Researchers Unite to Distribute Quantum Keys
- The Grill: Using Computer Models to Predict War
- U.S. and Russia Differ on a Treaty for Cyberspace
- Iranian Protesters Avoid Censorship With Navy Technology
- Corporations, Business news
- Sun shareholders approve $7.4B Oracle deal
- Video game revenue plunges 31% in June despite player growth
- United Air Lines learns the power of viral revenge
- Photographers resigned to losing Kodachrome
- Google’s Chrome OS puts pressure on Microsoft
- Google’s operating system escalates Microsoft duel
- Walkman, at 30, a mystery to teen
- Geeks double as scourges and sages at media summit
- Devices, Robotics
- Robo-Bats With Metal Muscles May Be Next Generation of Remote Control Flyers
- High-Tech Imaging Reveals Hidden Past in Ancient Texts
- Computers Aid in Cracking Deception in Plants
- ‘Mixed Reality’ Human Helps Medical Students Learn to do Intimate Exams
- Liver device helps man survive until transplant
- Organic Traffic Lights
- Swiss team unveils prototype for sun-powered plane
- Electronic monitors provide care without doctor
- Interactive Robot Guided By Sensors–Not Remote
- Living Safely With Robots, Beyond Asimov’s Laws