From the same folks who brought you the research on story shapes I discussed last month, comes a real-time readout on the Happiness of Twitter (click for daily update). Some observations are really obvious: Saturday tends yield the happiest tweets of the week. Either Tuesday or Wednesday tend to be […]
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ÆtherCzar briefly mentioned this last week, but it bears repeating in further detail. When you log in to Facebook, Twitter, or other such sites over an unsecured WiFi network, you are broadcasting your identity and login information in a way that anyone else on the network can detect and exploit. […]
A few updates: The FCC has granted Garmin’s request for an extension of the waiver allowing transmission of digital GPS coordinate data on GMRS. Hat Tip: Steven J. Crowley Trimble acquired RFID vendor ThingMagic. Hat Tip: VeryFields RFID GS1 Hong Kong announced the winners of the Hong Kong RFID Awards […]
A few quick updates, while I recover from Wireless Wednesday on Twitter: New Scientist explains the history of complex numbers in a fascinating piece, “Putting the ‘i’ in iPods.” But since the iPod is more an accomplishment of engineering instead of physics, shouldn’t it be called the” jPod?” To learn […]
Gizmodo – last mentioned here as the web site that famously bought the stolen iPhone prototype – broke Twitter earlier today by sharing a hack that allowed any Twitter user to force any other Twitter user to follow them. Details here.