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Facebook plans to start charging for verifying applications built for the social network — an optional process that has upset some developers despite the company's assurances it will bring plenty of positive benefits.
At MySpace.com and many other popular online hangouts, a 30-something woman can celebrate her Sweet 16 over and over with just a click of the mouse. A 12-year-old can quickly mature to meet the sites' minimum age requirements, generally 14, while an adult looking to chat with teens can virtually shed several years.
In the last month, the amount of 'trolls' ,banned people returning under other names, and spammers who post comments on every article who aren't even intuitive enough to realize that 'Tyler' is not a user, but rather the moderator. (Yes, I'm calling you out.
DCF Goes High-Tech To Help Keep Track Of Kids Some caseworkers for Florida's Department of Children and Families have gone high-tech in order to track visits to children under the care of the state's child welfare agency.
Strings Link The Ultracold With The SuperhotFor the first time, superstring theorists can point to a place where their formulas help other physicists understand something they can see in their experiments.
Dobbs again promoted GOP claims that SCHIP could benefit undocumented immigrantsCNN's Lisa Sylvester again uncritically reported Republican claims that "people living in the United States illegally might be able to access" health insurance benefits under new legislation extending SCHIP.
Government surveillance increasingly depends on new and enhanced technology combined with the ability to use that technology.
U.S. sees potential merit to Iran cooperation planThe United States said on Friday there was potential merit to Iran's nuclear transparency deal with U.N. inspectors, after earlier branding it a diversionary gambit to forestall tougher U.N. sanctions.
No proof Iran running 3,000 centrifugesThere is no evidence for the Iranian president's announcement that Iran has 3,000 centrifuges running, which would allow it to produce significant amounts of nuclear fuel, diplomats familiar with U.N. inspections said.
In cooperation with the Committee of Concerned Journalists, Kovach and Rosenstiel assemble the consensus in the field of journalism about what it is that journalists do.
Bioscrypt and 3VR Partner to Deliver 3D Facial Recognition for Security ApplicationsBioscrypt Inc.
Major flaws in North Korea deal - Will U.S. go soft on nuclear verification? In the wake of last month's announcement that the United States and North Korea had reached an agreement in which Pyongyang agreed to stop at least some of its nuclear weapons programs, talk in Washington about the North Korean military threat has taken on an almost surreal quali …
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough. Walter Cronkite
Biometric Authentication Gains MomentumMercator Advisory Group research shows that the market for all forms of biometrics from fingerprint scanning to voice verification is growing and anticipates that the global revenues for biometrics will approach $7 billion by 2010.
UPEK Fingerprint Sensors Integrated in Labcal Mobile Card ReadersUPEK®, Inc., the leading brand of fingerprint authentication security solutions, today announced that Labcal Technologies, Inc. is integrating UPEK's TouchChip® TCS1 Fingerprint Sensor in its Be.U Mobile SMC-800 ruggedized handheld reader for ID verification.
Biometric acceptance driven by speed of ID verificationThe convenience of using biometrics for ID verification outweighs any concerns of lax security methods when using smartcards, according to a new survey.
U.S. Companies Object to Deal on Ports ID CardsExecutives from some of the nation's leading identity verification companies are pushing Congress to rescind a provision that they said could lead to a foreign-owned company handling sensitive personal records for as many as 750,000 port workers.
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