It could be another inroad for Facebook to convince mainstream users that checking in, both to places and events, is a normal and customary thing to do. And in doing so, it could offer brands another reason to host events on Facebook instead of the plethora of other invite and event sites, such as Eventbrite or Plancast.

They’re supernervous about Facebook,” he said. “Google’s not strong in the rear view mirror. Google’s strong when they’re looking out their windshield.

Though Google prides itself on giving engineers access to its code base to invent new products, it blocked the engineers in China because it said government officials might force them to reveal private information.

A first-grade teacher in Paterson, N.J., was suspended on Thursday after she posted on her Facebook page that she felt like a warden overseeing future criminals, district officials said.

Microsoft’s position as accuser in an anti-competition case is something of a role reversal. In the past, the world’s leading software company has been the target of similar actions.

Like the dreaded telescreen in George Orwell’s “1984,” technologies like the Internet and cellphones are proving just as useful for spying as they are for communicating, making the choice to hit “call” or “send” an increasingly risky one.

Visual analytics play off the idea that the brain is more attracted to and able to process dynamic images than long lists of numbers. But the goal of information visualization is not simply to represent millions of bits of data as illustrations. It is to prompt visceral comprehension, moments of insight that make viewers want to learn more. “The purpose of visualization,” says Ben Shneiderman, founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, “is insight, not pictures.”

« Chacun a le droit à sa propre image » et « en principe, il est interdit de photographier quiconque sans son approbation », a rappelé le tribunal, selon lequel Google doit aussi veiller à « garantir » l’anonymat des personnes photographiées devant des « installations sensibles ».
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Peter Fleischer, chargé des questions de confidentialité chez Google, a indiqué que le géant américain allait “étudier les motifs du jugement et examiner ses implications pour Street View en Suisse et les possibilités de faire appel”.

Eagle said the United Nations spends approximately $5 million per year to do surveys on disaster preparedness with face-to-face interviews. Txteagle helped the U.N. with its disaster preparedness surveys this year, and got more than five times as many people to participate via mobile phones in 49 countries for a fraction of that cost. Meanwhile, customers in Txteagle’s emerging markets average 10 percent of their annual income spent on their phones, so they value participating as well.