Monthly Archives: February 2012
ITTO: Tweeting for Healthier Hearts
A heart surgeon tweeted while performing a patient’s double-coronary artery bypass, but it was not a case of distracted dissecting — the whole operation was designed to create awareness of Heart Month and educate millions on the delicate, but common, procedure.
Two doctors conducted the 57-year-old patient’s heart surgery, carrying out very special operations during the procedure. Dr. Michael Macris, medical director of cardiovascular surgery at Memorial Hermann Northwest in Houston held the scalpel, while Dr. Paresh Patel held the smartphone, posting the first live tweets, photos and even answering live questions from followers of the groundbreaking event.
The hospital then created a social documentary of the event, called a “storify,” beginning with pictures and information of the
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Wiping Your Data Before Google’s Privacy Change
The search giant’s announcement to unify all sites and services under a single privacy policy, including search, YouTube, Google+, Picasa, Gmail and the Android operating system, ignited criticism among users and lawmakers about how the company will share information across its ecosystem.
After tomorrow, what people search for, watch, buy and share via any of Google’s dozens of products or sites is potential fodder for Google to target ads, as well as other products and services.
That is, unless users decide to hide their histories as much as possible. Several websites this week posted how to erase Google search history, and social media sharing spread the action steps. The directions urge users to sign into Google, go to www.google.com/history, click “remove
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MWC: Tech to Spread Freedom, Google Says
Addressing the digital divide during his keynote speech at Mobile World Conference 2012, Schmidt talked about what developing technologies mean for the world, and all socioeconomic classes. Schmidt philosophized as he shared his theories about the future, calling developers “the engineers of human freedom” and hitting on many points, like availability, roadblocks and repercussions.
“Let us resolve as developers and entrepreneurs to build a world where everyone has the opportunity to be connected,” he said to the audience in closing his lecture, opening up to audience questions.
Schmidt urged the audience to approach technology as realists, asserting that while there are tools to change the world, skeptics needn’t worry about too much, too fast.
Most of the world lives with no connectivity, Schmidt
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Child Pornography Bill Challenges Privacy
The same representative who sponsored the anti-piracy SOPA legislation, Rep. Lamar Smith (R.,Texas), offered The Protecting Children from Internet Pornography Act, or H.R. 1981, which would require Internet providers to store and monitor personal information linked with IP addresses, including data entered on mobile handsets.
Smith touts the bill as a tool for law enforcement to catch child pornographers, but analysts are crying foul, saying the sweeping expanse of the bill jeopardizes the privacy and security of every U.S. Internet user.
H.R. 1981′s introduction, and the building outrage accompanying it, point to the ongoing debate in the U.S. over Internet freedom, and privacy in general. Smith and his supporters highlighted the proposal’s function, to catch deviants.
Still, critics say it positions citizens as suspicious, if not
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Are E-Books Fairly Priced? — Part 2
As the Battle Heats Up, Amazon Changes Course
Amazon had no choice but to convert to the agency pricing model by Apple and publishers in 2009, forcing them to agree to higher e-book prices up to $15. Publishers were happy to see higher prices and more revenue, but Amazon chafed under the agency agreement.
However, the e-retailer has
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