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WSJ: “A former Federal Trade Commission employee has filed a complaint with the agency accusing Google Inc. of not adequately protecting the privacy of consumers search queries. The complaint was filed September 6 by Christopher Soghoian, who worked until August as a technologist with the FTCs Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. It calls on …
New York Review of Books: Can We Create a National Digital Library? Robert Darnton – “The following talk was given at the opening of a conference at Harvard on October 1 to discuss the possibility of creating a National Digital Library.” “Despite the complexities, the fundamental idea of a National Digital Library (or NDL) is, …
“How will the balance of power between Democrats and Republicans shake out after the elections on November 2? Many political experts and news sources track and revise predictions, but until now its been hard to compare perspectives. Weve worked with some of the top names in politics Sabato, Cook, Rothenberg, CQ-Roll Call, and RealClearPolitics …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today upgraded and modernized the E-rate program to bring fast, affordable Internet access to schools and libraries across the country. These changes will help ensure that Americas students can learn and develop the hightech skills necessary to compete in the 21st Century economy. The National Broadband Plan laid out …
News release: “In the 2010 Kids and Family Reading Report – Turning the Page in the Digital Age – a national survey released today, children age 6 17 and their parents share their views on a wide range of topics regarding reading in the 21st Century. The study, conducted by Scholastic, the global childrens …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today took steps to free up vacant airwaves between TV channels — called white spaces — to unleash a host of new technologies, such as super Wi-Fi, and myriad other diverse applications. This is the first significant block of spectrum made available for unlicensed use in more than 20 …
“A Wall Street Journal investigation into online privacy has found that popular children’s websites install more tracking technologies on personal computers than do the top websites aimed at adults.” “Marketers are spying more on young Internet users than on their parents, building detailed profiles of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journals What They …
Americans Spending More Time Following the News – Ideological News Sources: Who Watches and Why, September 12, 2010 “There are many more ways to get the news these days, and as a consequence Americans are spending more time with the news than over much of the past decade. Digital platforms are playing a larger role …
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, September 13, 2010, Children’s Websites: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids: “New research with users aged 312 shows that older kids have gained substantial Web proficiency since our last studies, while younger kids still face many problems. Designing for children requires distinct usability approaches, including targeting content narrowly for different ages of …
The Power of Mobile, by Susannah Fox, September 13, 2010 – Prepared for Mayo Transform 2010: Thinking Differently About Health Care. “Mobile was the final front in the access revolution. It has erased the digital divide. A mobile device is the internet for many people…Access isnt the point anymore. Its what people are doing with …
OIG-10-111 – DHS Needs to Improve the Security Posture of Its Cybersecurity Program Systems, September 8, 2010 “Our audit focused on the security of the systems that US-CERT uses to accomplish its cybersecurity mission. Overall, NCSD has implemented adequate physical security and logical access controls over the cybersecurity program systems used to collect, process, and …
“This alternative way of slicing the data still shows Email to be, by far, the dominant sector in terms of mobile time, although this dominance shrinks by a few delta points to 38.5% from 41.6%. Search is another that nets out with a smaller share, although by less than a percentage point from 7.1% to …
