Category «Internet»

Visual China Group expands control of Corbis and Getty Images

First – Corbis Images and Corbis Motion closed their doors on May 2, 2016. Second, via the press room site at Getty Images today – note there are several moving parts to this news, which was announced in April 2016 – with more information is surfacing June 2016 – Via the Chief Executive Officer of …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Commerce, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management

Syntactic Complexity of Reading Content Directly Impacts Complexity of Mature Students’ Writing

International Journal of Business Administration – Syntactic Complexity of Reading Content Directly Impacts Complexity of Mature Students’ Writing. Received: April 2, 2016 Accepted: April 26, 2016 Online Published: May 4, 2016 doi:10.5430/ijba.v7n3p71 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijba.v7n3p71 Abstract – “Increasingly, schools and colleges of business focus on the quality of their students’ writing, reflecting complaints from business and …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Link privacy leak on Facebook Messenger

Medium – “Why you shouldn’t share links on Facebook – Earlier this week, security researchers at Checkpoint discovered a vulnerability that would have allowed attackers to change messages and links sent through Facebook messenger. Facebook quickly patched the bug … but did you know links sent privately through messenger can be read by anyone? Moreover, Facebook …

Subjects: Internet, Privacy, Social Media

The high cost and complex barriers to open access knowledge

Via ars technica uk this is a long read that documents the long, circuitous, challenging and unfulfilled promise of access to human knowledge provided without impediments specific to economic or social status, country of origin, age, ethnicity, i.e., for everyone – Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it? “…imagine, for …

Subjects: Copyright, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Marketing

NYT – A Russian Cybersleuth Battles the ‘Dark Ages’ of the Internet

Neil MacFarquar – Moscow – “A sense of menace stirs right off the elevator on the fifth floor of Kaspersky Lab’s Moscow headquarters, where a small television screen displays cyberthreats occurring in real time around the world — a blinking, spinning, color-coded globe brimming with suspicious emails, malware and evil botnets that could be infecting a …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Internet, Privacy, Social Media

Digital Service Programs: Assessing Results and Coordinating with CIOs Can Improve Delivery of Federal Projects

Digital Service Programs: Assessing Results and Coordinating with Chief Information Officers Can Improve Delivery of Federal Projects, GAO-16-733T: Published: Jun 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 10, 2016. “In an effort to improve IT across the federal government, in March 2014 GSA established a team, known as 18F that provides IT services to agencies. In addition, …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Study – Call Center Productivity Over 6 Months Following a Standing Desk Intervention

Gregory Garrett, Mark Benden, Ranjana Mehta, Adam Pickens, Camille Peres, Hongwei Zhao. Call Center Productivity Over 6 Months Following a Standing Desk Intervention. IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2016; 00 DOI: 10.1080/21577323.2016.1183534 “Background:Many office employees are spending up to 90% of their workday seated, and employers are considering stand-capable desks as a …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet

LeakedSource database of over 32 million leaked Twitter credentials

“LeakedSource is a search-engine capable of searching over 1.8 billion leaked records — an aggregation of data from hundreds of disparate sources. We have been able to accumulate this data over a relatively short period of time through a combination of deep-web scavenging and rumor-chasing. Occasionally these efforts lead to major discoveries…If we come across …

Subjects: Blogs, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Digital Communications and Innovations at CBO

Presentation by Deborah Kilroe, Associate Director for Communications at CBO, at the Fourth Annual Global Network of Parliamentary Budget Officers Assembly. “CBO continually strives to make its work more accessible on its website and social media platforms. This presentation provides an overview of the significant innovations that CBO has implemented in recent years to enhance …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

PubHub from Bing – portal for news publishers to submit their sites

Bing Blog: “In the era of push notifications and shared posts, publishers face constant pressure to get their content discovered and in front of as many readers as possible. To support the publishing community in a way that delivers on our users’ needs, we are launching the Bing News PubHub, a portal that enables more …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines