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Google Street View Ruffles European Feathers
 Michael Scott Moore
Recent controversies over the volume of information about ordinary Europeans that U.S. agencies have demanded in the wake of 9/11 — including banking details, flight-customer data and passport biometrics — show a strange difference between America and the Old World.
Mexico to Convert Reactor to Low Enriched Uranium
 Associated Press
Mexico is saying it will work with the United States and Canada to convert its highly enriched uranium reactor, removing the potential bomb-making materials.
10 Simple Google Search Tricks
 Simon Mackie
I’m always amazed that more people don’t know the little tricks you can use to get more out of a simple Google search. Here are 10 of my favorites.
Crowdsourcing Cell Phones to Detect Chemicals
 John Verrico
Do you carry a cell phone? Today, chances are it's called a "smartphone" and it came with a three-to-five megapixel lens built-in—not to mention an MP3 player, GPS or even a bar code scanner. What if, in the future, new functions on our cell phones could also protect us from toxic chemicals?
Enhanced Vision Creates 'Sixth Sense'
 Marlowe Hood
The Internet, GPS and state-of-the-art eye tracking technology could be combined to enhance everyday experiences.
What is the Next Dimension of Social Networks? Full Network Environments!
 Guillermo Ramon Adames y Suari
Nowadays we are facing the evolution of social networks. We passed from email to social networks. In this environment all sorts of people are concerned with problems, interactions, precautions and you name it. But, what's after social networks?
Mexico Space Agency in the Works
 Yvonne Reyes Campos
Congress’ Science and Technology Committee approved a bill submitted by the Senate Thursday to create the Mexican Space Agency (AEXA), which would be part of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportations (SCT) while remaining a decentralized and autonomous public organization.
Rupert Murdoch to Limit Google and Microsoft's Access to His Newspapers
 Agence France-Presse
Rupert Murdoch, News Corp chairman, said Google and Microsoft's access to his newspapers could be limited to a "headline or a sentence or two" once he erects a pay wall around his titles' websites.
Mexico's Mobile Registry ‘Prevents Crime’
 Víctor Mayén
The National Register of Cell Phone Users (RENAUT) is functional and fulfills its purpose of stopping crimes such as extortion and kidnappings, says the Federal Telecommunications Commission (Cofetel).
LatinLife.com - San Francisco Bay Area's New Latin Website
 LatinLife.com
LatinLife.com will proudly serve as the newest Latino website for the San Francisco Bay Area. It will primarily be an English-language website, with sprinkles of trendy Spanglish added for spice.
Surrogates?: Japanese Scientists Unveil Female Android
 Asahi
The inventors of a robot capable of mimicking human movements and facial expressions believe it is so realistic that it can be used to provide counseling to human patients.
Wireless Health Care for Diabetes
 Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Online communities could easily be used to offer people with chronic illnesses, such as diabetes , wireless healthcare services via mobile phones and the internet.
Few Drive Well While Yakking on Cell Phones
 Valoree Dowell
A new study from University of Utah psychologists found a small group of people with an extraordinary ability to multitask: Unlike 97.5 percent of those studied, they can safely drive while chatting on a cell phone.
Grand Velas Launches Easter Egg Hunt on Social Media Channels
 I-Newswire
Grand Velas All Suites & Spa Resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico launched an Easter Egg Hunt contest via their social media channels where they will reward one contestant per week until Easter Sunday.
Don't Throw Away Your Paper Maps Just Yet
 John McKinney
While GPS can tell you exactly where you stand, sometimes it takes a bit of dead-tree cartography to tell you where you are. Pity the poor paper map. Once admired for its accuracy, it is now scorned for being less precise than digital maps and hopelessly passé when compared to handheld GPS and satellite navigation systems.
The "Nice Hacker"
 Associated Press
He's unemployed and isn't much of a computer expert. The Frenchman accused of infiltrating Twitter and peeping at the accounts of President Barack Obama and singers Britney Spears and Lily Allen says he wanted to reveal just how vulnerable online data systems are to break-ins - and he says he didn't mean any harm.
Wireless Survey: 91% of Americans Use Cell Phones
 Chris Foresman
Even in the face of the largest economic recession since the Great Depression, results show that the wireless industry continues to grow as a vast majority of the US population is using a mobile phone.
Airport Device Follows Fliers' Phones
 Thomas Frank
Today's smartphones and PDAs could have a new use in the nation's airports: helping passengers avoid long lines at security checkpoints.
 Tropicasa Realty’s Investor Invitational Finds Success in This Tight Economy
 Patrick Harrison
Tropicasa Realty has launched their Investor Invitational, an online tool that puts the power of technology into the buyer’s hands to make searching for Puerto Vallarta real estate bargains simpler and more time-efficient, while offering discounts on air and hotels.
Clinic Opens for Children Addicted to Video Games and the Internet
 David Rose
Doctors claim to have opened the first dedicated clinic in Britain to treat children addicted to video games and other technology.
Hundreds Of Americans File Complaints Over Naked Body Scanners
 Paul Joseph Watson
Despite establishment media spin that naked body scanners are being meekly accepted by a compliant public, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that there have been more than 600 formal complaints about the devices in the last year.
Mexico Eyes Aerospace Growth as Safran Opens Plants
 Tim Hepher
Mexico hopes to one day become an independent power in aerospace, the country's president said as he inaugurated two French-built factories to make parts for Boeing and Airbus aircraft on Wednesday.
O'Hare Airport Debuts Full-Body Scanner in Chicago
 UPI
O'Hare is the second airport to receive one of the 150 backscatter units purchased in 2009 with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
US Feds Use Social Networks to Nab Crooks, Snoop on Americans
 Richard Lardner
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.
U.S. to Roll Out Major Broadband Policy
 John Poirier & Sinead Carew
U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.
Online "Porn District" Delayed
 Associated Press
Porn Web sites can't park themselves at a ".xxx" address quite yet. A global Internet oversight agency has deferred a decision for at least 70 days on whether to create the ".xxx" domain name as an online red-light district.
Mexico Lawmakers to Rule on ID Theft
 Yvonne Reyes Campos
Identify theft has become a common practice in Mexico, and encompasses document falsification, Internet purchases, telephone surveys and databases that businesses share, which occasionally end up in the hands of criminals.
Life and Death of Online Communities
 University of Haifa
The more heterogeneous the community of an online chat channel, the more chances the channel has to survive over time. This has been concluded in a new joint study carried out by researchers of the University of Haifa and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
IRS to Track Online Sellers' Payment Transactions Beginning Next Year
 Barbara Weltman
Internet sellers who don't report their sales will no longer be under the radar. Starting next year, any bank or other payment settlement company that processes credit cards, debit cards, and electronic payments such as PayPal will have to issue information returns telling the IRS what merchants receive.
5 Ways Your TV is Slowly Killing You
 Linda Carroll
You’ve accepted the idea that TV makes you dumber. You know those hours sprawled out in front of the screen are going to make you fatter. But you’ll be surprised to learn the host of other bad things TV can do to you.
Facebook: Getting Older Without Getting Old
 Randall Stross
Facebook now has more than 400 million active users, up from only 50 million as recently as 2007. If social networking still resembled a young, hip downtown nightclub scene — one day a site is hot, the next it’s not — we might expect the crowds to decamp soon.
Microsoft Exec Pitches Internet Usage tax to Pay for Cybersecurity Programs
 Tony Romm
A top Microsoft executive on Tuesday suggested a broad Internet tax to help defray the costs associated with computer security breaches and vast Internet attacks, according to reports.
Augmented Identity App Helps You Identify Strangers on the Street
 Clay Dillow
By this point, we're all familiar with augmented reality, but Swedish mobile software firm The Astonishing Tribe is taking information overload to the next logical step: augmented identity.
Mexico: Ecological Smoke from Fuel Efficient Stoves
 Emilio Godoy
The lives of many rural women and children in Mexico are changing, and the country's high deforestation rate could be reduced, as inexpensive fuel-efficient cook stoves are being distributed by non-governmental organisations with corporate and government support.
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