Sep 30, 2011
Facebook Corp Have you ever noticed the Facebook, and Twitter buttons on many of the web pages that you visit? The buttons allow you to share content that you like, with your friends on these social- networking websites. But the companies that run these social-networking websites also collect information about the [...]
Sep 30, 2011
Would you like super-size cookies? I am not talking about that moist and tasty chocolate cookies. I am talking cookies that are installed on users’ computers. Usually cookies can be deleted by the user from the cache but there are supercookies that are not easily detectable by the users (because they are not stored in [...]
Sep 30, 2011
Summary: When you think about “The Cloud” you probobly see an omni system that is everywhere and nowhere at once. You probobly think that once in “The Cloud” your data aimlessly bounces arround the world waiting to be accessed, by anyone, and not just yourself. It is an interesting fact that only part of this is true. [...]
Sep 30, 2011
Summary: Intel announced in a press release that it is abandoning the linux-based mobile platform that it has been developing jointly with Nokia for the last 5 years. The reason they state is because “the future belongs to HTML5-based applications, outside of a relatively small percentage of apps, and we are firmly convinced that our [...]
Sep 29, 2011
Simon Stiphanos Summary: PostgreSQL, a very advanced open-source database, much like MySQL, has recently released version 9.1 of the community-engineered database. It now ships with new enterprise features like: synchronous replication, unlogged tables (which speed up non-sensitive I\O by not commiting resources to logging interactions), and more. Add to that the many long-time features which [...]
Sep 29, 2011
I read an article on how Web 2.0 tools may help enhance learning experience for what the article called ‘net generation’, born between 1982 and 1991. The authors cited that ‘net generation’ students are net savvy individuals who grew up using the Internet, email, cell phones and playing computer games and thus traditional learning environment [...]
Sep 29, 2011
QR codes have recently been popular among smartphones to be used in many areas such as shopping centers to museums and even DMV. Although this technology has been around for nearly a decades, it was never really proven to be useful enough to adopt and switch. However, that much change soon as Wikipedia rolled out [...]
Sep 28, 2011
The “One and Only” Disease-Causing Gene Database We live in a society where information is everything. Everyday we expose ourselves to large amounts of data. Therefore it is easy to say that the people that have all this information have power.The power to change the world. But what if this information could potentially save lives? [...]
Sep 27, 2011
While Eclipse is very successful for Java Development, MySQL and PostgreSQL are very populating open source Databases.We cannot compare with brand name like Oracle, Microsoft, or IBM, but MySQL and PostgreSQL are very reasonable for small business. If your data is less than a terabyte, both MySQL and PostgreSQL definitely can handle it. However, [...]
Sep 27, 2011
Summary: This article talks about data mining in social media, in which companies such as Facebook or Twitter are able to gather data from their users through the information, posts, and other activities the users provide. This type of information gathering is emerging to become a great source of information on upcoming trends and opportunities, [...]
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