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“The Government has published a National Infrastructure Plan outlining the Governments vision for the future of UK economic infrastructure. This is the first ever infrastructure plan for the UK. It outlines the scale of the challenge facing UK infrastructure and the major investment that is needed to underpin sustainable growth in the UK. It focuses …
News release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against three agencies of the Department of Justice (DOJ) today, demanding records about problems or limitations that hamper electronic surveillance and potentially justify or undermine the Administration’s new calls for expanded surveillance powers. The issue has been in the headlines for more than a month, kicked …
Geotag, You’re It! What Your Smartphone Might Be Saying Behind Your Back, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, October 18, 2010 “Snap a photo of a sunset with your iPhone and you can upload it to Twitter with a few clicks. But your smartphone might be transmitting more than a pretty photograph. It could be collecting and storing …
Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. PLoS ONE. 2010;5(10):e13636+. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636. “Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the publisher’s version by self-archiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on …
Mobile Health 2010, by Susannah Fox, October 19, 2010: “The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults. The Pew Internet Projects latest survey of American adults, conducted in association with the California HealthCare Foundation, finds that 85% use a cell phone. Of those: 17% of cell owners have used their phone to …
Americans and their gadgets, by Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, October 14, 2010 “In recent years the digital world has expanded far beyond the desktop1, and consumers can now choose from an array of devices capable of satisfying their need for anytime, anywhere access to news, information, friends and entertainment. This report examines the latest …
“The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving reports that overall revenue increased by 1.4% for the three months ending August 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009. This was a move back into positive territory from Julys -4.5% trend. This trend is based on $2.2 billion in 12 months revenue from 1,364 organizations…The Blackbaud …
Automatic Generation of Research Trails in Web History, Elin Rønby Pedersen, Shengyin Gu, Peter Jin Hong, Karl Gyllstrom, Proc. IUI 2010. “The web is large and complex, and in the process of navigating it, we often lose our way. Research trailing is a method to organize web contents that we have spent some effort on …
Escaping the Scrapers: “The Internet has given rise to a dizzying array of people-search sites and data brokers that gather and compile public information and social-networking profiles. The sites gather information from public sources such as property records and telephone listings, and other information is harvested by scraping or copying websites where people …
News release: “The largest ever global research project into peoples online activities and behaviour – Digital Life – was launched today, digital day by TNS, the worlds biggest custom research company. Covering nearly 90 per cent of the worlds online population through 50,000 interviews with consumers in 46 countries, the study reveals major changes in …
Report: Shopping, Search, Decision Making Online Product Research, by Jim Jansen, September 29, 2010 “The commercial use of the internet by American adults has grown since the mid-2000s, with 58% of Americans now reporting that they perform online research concerning the products and services that they are considering purchasing. That is an increase from 49% …
CNNMoney: “Google has made its famous search algorithm into a $20 billion business, but for years, investors have asked, “What’s next?” Google finally has an answer: Android…By 2013, Android [mobile operating system] will be a $4 billion-a-year business for the company and “a blockbuster success,” Caris & Co. analyst Sandeep Aggarwal forecasts. That’s a nice …
