Technology

What You Need To Know When Using Public Wi-Fi Networks

Someone recently sent me a Fox News article from about a month ago. It’s about risks of using public networks, specifically wireless ones — while the issue isn’t limited to wireless, few people wire themselves in any more. The newest trend in Internet fra ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Aug 31 2009 - 10:12am

Multiple Online Identities

Who are you?  Who are you online?  Are you the same to everyone?  Should you be? There's been a lot of talk about Google Wave as a new communications paradigm.  I like Wave.  I also think it's retro, harkening back to Nelson and Engelbart's ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 28 2009 - 1:58pm

Bloggy Goes Cosmic? With Project Calliope, Science 2.0 Enters The Space Race

The secret is out; there's only one science blogging site out there with its name on a satellite and it is us. Well, so far it is us.    The commies in Star City were first into space but the good ol' US of A put a man on the moon and that's ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 17 2015 - 8:17pm

Would Sherlock Holmes Have Used A Video Game To Understand People?

Sherlock Holmes used a variety of tools  to deduce what he needed to know about people in general and criminals in specific.    It turns out he could learn a lot by how people act in a virtual reality setting playing a form of 'hide and seek', sa ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2009 - 12:21pm

Look Ahead Sensor: It's Science Versus Smugglers- Guess Who Wins?

Idaho National Laboratory engineer Phillip West holds a curious metallic device about as wide as a steering wheel. It looks a bit like a flat, stoic face, with two large circular holes for eyes, protruding cylindrical ears and a long, disc-ended snout.  &q ...

Article - Mike Wall - Sep 2 2009 - 7:19pm

More Privacy Issues With Web Browsing

A couple of years ago, I talked about some of the search terms that people have used when they’ve found my blog pages. In the comments, Donna was amazed at the information that’s available to the web sites you visit. My response to Donna’s comment discuss ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 3 2009 - 11:25am

FrankenCamera- Will This Open Source Technology Revolutionize Photography?

Stanford scientists say they will reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an 'open-source' digital camera. If the technology catches on, camera performance will be no longer be limited by the software that comes pre-installed by the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2009 - 3:26pm

The Scientific Blogging Wayback Machine- How We Looked Then

In February of 2010, Scientific Blogging, the flagship of Science 2.0, will turn 3 years old.   Yep, you all are getting old.   But by then it will have changed, even from what it looks like now (more on that in November). Nothing on the internet ever goes ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 17 2010 - 8:05pm

Phone Review Blues

No matter how bad things get, there's always something trivial we can completely take out of its big picture context and blow up into something dramatic.   Mountains, molehills and all that. Sure, there are people starving in third world countries and ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2009 - 4:40pm

AT&T Can't Handle All The IPhones

Some turns of events in the technology world are truly surprising. Who knew that a couple of guys starting up Google would hit it as big as they did? Who imagined that Facebook or Twitter would turn into sensations? Who had any inkling about how successfu ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 9 2009 - 12:00pm