Senator Al Franken, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, prodded witnesses today in a hearing on facial recognition technology, making pointed remarks about the potential of abuse by law enforcement officials and private corporations. Franken questioned FBI...
"Your face is a conduit to an incredible amount of information about you." Senator Al Franken (D-MN)
Version 2 of the web-based Enyo application framework — an integral part of HP's roadmap to launch Open webOS 1.0 later this year — has just exited beta and is now available for developers to use. Unlike Enyo 1, which was designed specifically...
Yesterday the European Commission revealed that it was going to be investigating whether Microsoft had properly complied with a 2009 commitment to allow users to choose their default web browsers in Windows — and now eyes are turning towards Windows RT as well. Reuters is reporting that the EU will be looking into the tablet-focused version of Microsoft's upcoming operating system, and the...
Foursquare recently redesigned its app to focus less on the act of checking in and more on an activity feed of what is going on around you. The goal is to be the best, most personalized guide to any city or neighborhood. Today it's giving the nearly one million merchants who have claimed their venues on Foursquare a way to communicate with their best customers in real time, by letting them post what is calls local updates into the feeds of their loyal patrons.
Merchants have been able to claim their venues for a long time. They could add pictures, menus and special offers. But these were relatively static items. With local updates, a coffee shop can push a special for fifty percent off iced drinks on a single hot afternoon. That update goes out anyone who has checked into the coffee shop several times or liked the venue through the...
"If you're a small business owner, you want this to be easy." Foursquare's Noah Weiss
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