Security & Privacy – Page 7

How to wrangle control over your contacts

November 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Tech Trends: Tools for Managing Contacts
John Brandon, inc.com

TECH REPORT

We tried out two basic CRM tools that help organize contacts—and stay in touch with them.

I always thought customer relationship management software was strictly for salespeople.

Recently, I’ve been reading a lot abou…

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CRMs that have launched or been updated in the last year (agbeat.com)
How Quickbooks + CRM can increase sales for your small business (visual.ly)
Reps Make Better Sales Calls Decisions with Mobile App for “CRM Call Planner” (infogrowcorp.com)
Beyond Google Apps: The top 10 related cloud services (zdnet.com)
CRM Must Be Mobile (business2community.com)
Book review – Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Application Design (crmbusiness.wordpress.com)
How Brands Must Evolve From CRM To Social CRM (business2community.com)
Perceptions Can Matter (computerselaine.wordpress.com)
7 Reasons A Cloud-Based CRM System Is Awesome! (blogs.sap.com)

Ubi monitors home and chores

November 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

A Computer You Can Talk To Monitors Your Home And Helps With Chores
BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com

The Ubi, a ubiquitous computer you plug into a socket, can do things like read you your email or tell you the temperature in the room. All you have to do is ask.

You probably have at least one computer in your house. But what can it do,…

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Ubi Ind. – Denim Pants Collection (freshnessmag.com)
Super Ubi Land Kickstarter Goal Reached!!! (nintychronicle.wordpress.com)

Europe decides to get rid of acrylamide while we argue about soft drinks

November 6, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

Cooking, fast and slow
Blogus scientificus by Alex Reshanov, earthsky.org

Europeans are so fashion forward. While people in the U.S. are still bickering over soft drink sizes and calorie labeling for Big Macs, the European Union is already tackling a chemical many of us have never heard of: acrylamide. The…

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The Onion: Mississippi bans soft drinks smaller than 20 ounces (timesunion.com)
Mississippi Bans Soft Drinks Smaller Than 20 Ounces (theonion.com)
Caribbean Holds Worst Record for Diabetes Deaths Linked to Soft Drinks (repeatingislands.com)
NY judge blocks giant soft drink ban (abc.net.au)
Soft Drink Industry Refreshes Spanish Economy (eurasiareview.com)
Kids’ ‘alarming’ levels of soft drink (bigpondnews.com)

Why you should not build expensive cities near salt water

November 6, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

FYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse?
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

The white stuff can stick around and ruin, well, pretty much everything. That puts the officials trying to fix it on a ticking clock.

Sandy crippled the NYC subway system this week, knocking out power, damaging switches, and dumping…

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Salt: Mineral of Tyrants, Explorers and Revolutionaries – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
Making Salt Water Drinkable Just Got 99 Percent Cheaper (gizmodo.com.au)
Google Maps Adds Real-Time Transit Data in NYC, Salt Lake City (transportationnation.org)
Google Maps Offers Mass Transit Info for NYC, DC, Salt Lake City (eweek.com)
Coming to Salt Lake City today (craphound.com)
Salt Can Lead to Autoimmune Diseases Study Says (newsy.com)
Lockheed Martin finds way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater (3quarksdaily.com)

Climate scientists face death threats

November 6, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

The Battle Over Climate Science
By Tom Clynes, popsci.com

Climate scientists routinely face death threats, hate mail, nuisance lawsuits and political attacks. How much worse can it get?

There’s no police tape across Michael Mann’s office doorway this morning. “Always a good start,” he says, juggling…

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Climate Scientist Describes Death Threats And Personal Attacks At The Hands Of Deniers (businessinsider.com)
Climate Change Denialism (scienceblogs.com)
Michael Mann implies that skeptics might have weaponized anthrax and would commit bioterrorism (junkscience.com)
Girl, 9, Got Death Threats Over This (huffingtonpost.com)
Science persecution in the United States (wired.com)

New Jersey’s trial by fire of electronic voting

November 5, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

Security Researchers Warn New Jersey’s Emergency Email Voting Could Be An Insecure, Illegal Nightmare
Andy Greenberg, forbes.com

New Jersey’s decision to allow voters stranded by superstorm Sandy to vote by email in Tuesday’s election may be an innovative experimental response to a badly-timed natural disaster. But security researchers are warning that t…

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Possibility of liquor privatization in Pa. has NJ businesses concerned (nj.com)
Morristown Cosmetic Dentist Named “New Jersey Top Doc” (sys-con.com)
Sixty-Four Percent Of New Jersey Voters Support Gay Marriage (ontopmag.com)
The Trick To Selling Fancy Wine From New Jersey: Don’t Say It’s From New Jersey (wnyc.org)
Dry Eye Relief: From New Jersey to Maryland (drazmanreviews.com)

Belkin’s NetCam WiFi Camera is Mac compatible

November 5, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Belkin’s NetCam WiFi Camera with Night Vision keeps an eye out for ghosts while you’re out, hooks up with iOS / Android
Ben Gilbert, engadget.com

Out of town for Halloween and worried that your empty house is getting filled with ethereal catburglars? You can’t even see what they’re taking! Belkin’s got a solution for you with its new Wi-Fi NetCam, feeding your iOS or Android devi…

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Watch Your Home From The Outside With NetCam (inventorspot.com)
Belkin Acquires Smart Wi-Fi Maker Linksys (news.softpedia.com)
Tape Your Friends’ Wi-Fi Password To Their Router For Easy Tech Support (lifehacker.com.au)
Belkin’s Acquisition Of Linksys Is Now Complete (webpronews.com)
New Wi-Fi delivers more data faster, but at a cost (boston.com)
Cameras With WiFi Connectivity Could Be Hacked And Turned Into Spy Cams (ubergizmo.com)
Invite Big Brother into your home with the latest foolproof security cameras (digitaltrends.com)

See what the world will look like without power

November 4, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

New York City in post-storm darkness: photos by Randy Scott Slavin
Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net

NYC UNPLUGGED, a series by photographer Randy Scott Slavin documenting the darkness in New York City after Hurricane Sandy caused widespread power outages:

New York City is always bright. Street lights, business marquees, ligh…

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A Study of Shadows in Manhattan During the Blackout Caused by Hurricane Sandy (petapixel.com)
Photos from on top of the Great Pyramid Maggie Koerth-Baker,… (infosnack.net)
User uploads to YouTube hit one hour per second(.com) (nextlevelofnews.com)
New York City: 40 Free Things To Do (princetonconversationgroup.wordpress.com)
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wants to run for mayor of New York City (ceoworld.biz)

TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out

October 26, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Security & Privacy

TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out Of Big Airports And Shipping Them Off To Smaller Ones
Chris Morran, consumerist.com

Image from a backscatter machine

According to reports, the TSA is removing backscatter full-body scanners, which use very small amounts of ionizing radiation, from major airports and replacing them with less-controversial millimeter…

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TSA Removes Body Scanners (ifenews.wordpress.com)

Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings

October 25, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings
Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com

Online real estate service Zillow is expanding its real estate listings today by adding “pre-market inventory” — specifically, homes that have either been foreclosed or are in the foreclosure process.

Increasing the selection of…

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No longer a buyer’s market for homes? (stltoday.com)
Is Zillow Inc (Z) Zooming Past its Competitors? – Trulia Inc (TRLA), Move Inc. (MOVE) (insidermonkey.com)
High Foreclosure Rates Unlikely to Weaken Home Price Gains in Sarasota Reports Sarasota Bay Real Estate (virtual-strategy.com)
Documented crisis: Zillow.com adds information on 1.8m pre-foreclosure, foreclosed properties (nextlevelofnews.com)
Zillow’s Rental App Now in Spanish (dailyfinance.com)

Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk

October 8, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Regenerative Economy, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk
Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com

(Studio d’Xavier)

Trying to think of any reason paying more at the pump is a good thing would stump the average consumer (thinner wallets after paying with cash?), but one and possibly the only good side effect of pricey gas is that i…

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Man Drunk Drives An Electric Walmart Scooter For Six Miles (jalopnik.com)
Persuade Your Teen to Wait to Get a License and Save Thousands (autoinsurancecenter.com)
A Teen’s Drunk Driving Facebook Post Leads to His Arrest (complex.com)
Man Convicted In Fatal Drunk Driving Crash (detroit.cbslocal.com)

Bills, bills, bills: manage your accounts like a real pro

October 6, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy, Security & Privacy

Bills, bills, bills: manage your accounts like a real pro
Megan Geuss, arstechnica.com

No matter your day job, we all have a second gig that saps a couple of hours from our lives every month: operating the administrative branch of your life (or your household). Personal bureaucracy is a sad fact of life, but there are…

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Nearly 50 and Laid Off: Finding a Job in Retirement (allstate.com)
This is who I am now … finally being me (wordznerd.wordpress.com)
3 Reasons Following Your Passion Will Send You To The Poorhouse (forbes.com)
Why don’t you get a job? (ask.metafilter.com)

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