Lighting for periodic Gets Android, App Store, New York Times)

Robert P. George from Princeton and Cornel West of Princeton discuss the corrosion of our values. a room for the forum for discussion on what signs of progress could be realistic at this stage.

Xerox creates a cool "intelligent document" display touch screen, New York Times)

The new system for revision of the document is a prototype developed by scientists at Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France. If it turns into a product, it could help the masses for workers who have sieve stacks of documents and work as they do. The beneficiaries are lawyers, financial wizards legal trainees committed Government, sinister, medical assistants, Office workers and others. It reminds us that, for all the talk of a "paperless office", computers not brought too innovation through the process of screening through documents. It is nice to see some innovation that can take the drudgery of much of the information era jobs.

The researchers that you can use the system to find, open, sort and move thousands of documents with the touch of your finger. This means that you can sort millions of documents in hours instead of weeks. As you can see in the video promo of Xerox, table-top display lets users move documents with their fingers, as with a touch screen of the iPhone or smartphone. Only this screen is approximately 150 times larger, so that people can work together for him.

Documents can be placed side by side, scale up or down or stacked in a corner of a table, just as they may be on a real desktop. If you point to a number of relevant documents, the system learns what you are looking for and can provide similar, even if it means massive document search. Which can be very helpful for the process of discovery as lawyers research's electronic documents for a memo "smoking gun".

"When you consider the large number of documents involved in litigation, patent research, the Government's security and intelligence analyst reports, it is easy to understand how some review efforts involve millions of documents,"said Caroline Privault, head of research centre project.  "We believe that a tool such as this will have a major impact on the cost, accuracy and speed of examination of documents".

The system builds on the already introduced Xerox technology called CategoriX, which is currently used in services contentieux Xerox for legal discovery. It uses a touchscreen table Labsform PQ. The prototype is tested in pilot customers become available commercially.

Tags: paper, electronic documents, Xerox Rsearch Centre Europe

Enterprise: Xerox

People: Caroline Privault

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What iOS applications must be in the Mac application vault? (NY Times)

Instapaper

This is perhaps a strange request since Instapaper works pretty well as a browser-based application, but I would still like to see. Instapaper and Reeder applications provide best reading experience on iPhone and iPad, in my opinion and Reeder for Mac has already shown that kind of experience can be translated successfully on the desktop. A similar iOS Instapaper application with a way of reading full-screen would completely satisfy my needs read Mac.

Birds in anger

It can be perfectly adapted to a touch interface, but I think still angry birds could work on the Mac. Especially now Apple Magic Trackpad allows Mac to use based on the Enter key. It is not as satisfactory as slinging avian destruction tools simply in related, but it will probably provide yet many hours of distraction.

Facebook

Whereas the social network has not yet issued iPad application yet, is probably asking a lot, but I would love a native OS X Facebook client. The web is great, but I actually prefer to application iPhone most of the time, because I find it easier to navigate and less distracting. The best part is it strips all applications from third-party is probably also the reason why an application OS X Facebook will never happen.

WhatsApp/Kik/Viber

I love having a Messenger system that replaces texting on the iPhone, and I'd like to see be able to reach the Office as well. At one of these would make other obsolete IM clients and keep really connected me anywhere in the world without having really be signed a service (as they worked persistent in the background the way they do on the iPhone). In the same vein, an application as Viber might work well for providing an iPhone Mac voice dedicated, calling solution.

I could go on and on other applications and games I could benefit from using on the Mac, but my point is: there is huge potential crossover for iOS successful Bank application Mac applications.

What iOS applications do you think would best operate on OS X?

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Protect your business in a world of WikiLeaks (NY Times)

Entrepreneurs and business leaders should be regarded as a wakeup call and examine how they protect their confidential business information and intellectual property from unauthorized disclosure. Often, the greatest danger comes from leaks internal rather than external security violations. To date, WikiLeaks site depended mainly on an employee or otherwise initiated which first and foremost the leakage of confidential information.

Confidence is not enough to protect your business, so here are some tips to reduce the potential risk of your company a leak and the legal responsibility.

Identify your information "mission critical" and keep on a need to know basis.

What information would be detrimental to your company if it has been disclosed, and who has access? Even if you are not a top secret as Coca-Cola formula, your company has probably trade secrets must be protected and even potentially embarrassing information which would be negative about your brand or reputation light to shine. In General, trade secrets are determining how that gives your business an advantage in the marketplace and may include business plans and others even private - information that is in the form of customer lists.

Not forget your confidential information of the company to receive protection under the act as a trade secret, you must start taking reasonable precautions to protect them - usually by restricting access to this information.

Legally, protect your information.

In addition to restrict access, you can configure additional legal protections to discourage illegal leaks. Confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements must be signed by all employees and independent contractors, and also by existing and potential trading partners. Always ask the parties sign the agreement before share you any sensitive information.

Consider adding a section to your HR manual spelling the responsibility of each employee to protect confidential information. Policies can discourage illegal leaks and give you a legal advantage should information out, despite all your efforts.

Track and monitor access to, and limited copying of confidential information.

Bradley Manning, the soldier who allegedly stole it documents classified military personnel and their past WikiLeaks, had claimed to listen to a CD of Lady GaGa, while he was actually copy cables classified on the same CD.

This could have been easily avoided if there were technical measures in place to prevent an employee to copy information onto a CD drive or zip. That reasonable security measures are in place, unusual behaviours monitoring can also help identify suspicious activity that might indicate a potential leak.

Protect yourself from responsibility to the user if you are a service provider.

Small businesses should take a lesson from the big suppliers who refused service on site WikiLeaks. Amazon, PayPal, visa and others cite shortcomings in their terms of service as justification for refusal to Wikileaks service agreements. If there is pressure from the Government on these service providers, it is likely that the primary motivation of WikiLeaks dumping was to protect themselves against liability for alleged illegal WikiLeaks activities. Learn from these companies and good contracts has implemented to protect your company - responsibility and avoid being at the mercy of the actions of someone else.

Charley Moore is the founder of rocket lawyer legal services website and legally easy blog editor. He argued this VentureBeat column.

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Beam do money enables communication with advice on the New Restaurant, New York Times)

Beam launched earlier this year as a site where users can compare their habits of costs for people like them. Finance personal popular site Mint.com has recently published a similar product, MintData, but data from 4 million users of the site. Bundle does not have any where near as many users, but he says he gave Citibank and other service providers, financial means that indeed, it has 20 million user data.

However, massive data sets really what you are looking for a site of finance? If initial height seems a little fuzzy, package launches some new features today which are worth more obvious - starting with the restaurant Advisor that I mentioned above.

Instead of basing its ratings on the voice of the user and reviews, recommendation examines where people actually eat and how much they spend actually. The idea is that you can give a five-star review and go to the restaurant once, but you reveal your real preferences when you go to the restaurant again and again, and you spend lot of money.

The recommendation may tell you which restaurants in your area based on the loyalty of most of the other in your income level. And it can tell you what the average spending in restaurants is really only.

On the downside, Advisor of the restaurant is only available in Los Angeles and New York for the moment, although Chief Executive Jaidev Shergill says that Bundle will add a third city in 30 to 45 days.

Movement-O-Matic, meanwhile, help you to understand the financial impact of the changeover to a new town. You can enter the city or postal code everywhere where you think move, and then based on your income, the site tells you how much you're likely to spend on rent, food and more.

Bundle is supported by the Citi, Microsoft, and Morningstar.

Tags: Move-O-Matic, staff finance, recommendations, advice on the restaurant

Enterprises: Bundle, Citi

People: Jaidev Shergill

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Week in review: why Google needs of digital management of rights (New York Times)

Why Google needs video technology digital-rights behind Netflix - Google announced recently bought Widevine, a digital rights management primarily known as a technology company video behind video protection of Netflix. Why Google suddenly need a credible digital rights management solution? Peter Yared the WebTrends explains.

Why Facebook play a dangerous game with the brothers Winklevoss - usually responsible for public relations of Facebook can be invoked for a "no comment" exceeded good on really sensitive issues. Making company response to a recent wave of reports on ongoing disputes with the fellow of Harvard Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg more than a little surprising.

In another stunner, OnLive allows to pedal set applications Windows 7 on your iPad - OnLive was announced Tuesday a version limited its online gaming service is now available for the iPad and devices Android beta version will soon be available. You can even use the OnLive application to run Windows 7 applications on your iPhone.

Viber gets 1 M downloads in 3 days for iPhone dead simple calls VoIP - only when you thought voice over IP (VoIP) could not be exciting again, along comes from Viber with his free iPhone application.

A loan for the new King Android Google spills beans on S Nexus, finally coming to T-Mobile - 16 December.

Here are five posts more than we think are important, reflection, fun, or all of the foregoing.

Why your TV is the new field of battle app - as our TVs are becoming smarter, televisions began quickly for the development of smartphones in parallel.

Microsoft Hotmail's struggling to combat Gmail et al. looks to Reddit users for hope - the team behind, service E-mail often decried Microsoft, Hotmail, hope to score some of its users of the titans in the industry as something Google Gmail has not entirely removed: demonstrate that they are human.

Three reasons you can actually buy a netbook chrome OS - I finally begin to understand why someone might buy one of these devices.

An expert take on Windpower fixing: think more small - think more small, said R.J. Lyman, associated with the firm Goodwin Procter and former Environment Secretary Assistant in Massachusetts. Nix massive utility-scale projects.

Concerned about your reputation? Intelius now lets it follow online - the new subscription service will help people to follow their footprint "online" and gain more control over the information available on this subject by public social networking profiles and other sources that may affect the reputation of any person.

Tags: Android, apps, chrome OS, Hotmail, iPad, iPhone, netbooks, Nexus, wind energy, wind energy, Windows 7.

Enterprises: Facebook, Google, Intelius, Netflix, OnLive, Reddit, Viber, Widevine

People: Cameron Winklevoss, Mark Zuckerberg, Tyler Winklevoss

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Keep Secrets WikiSafe (NY Times)

Perhaps it is just a first impression. Stunned officials are scrambling to stop bleeding of documents, while radicals antisecrecy discover some secrets should be protection after all.

However, there has been a change. A new counterculture self-defense information now promises disclosures by the terabyte joined watchdog, which has long accepted leak information to overcoming and drabs, traditional journalism. A bureaucrat can hide the value of a document library on a key fob and dispersal on the Internet in a dozen countries for a cigarette break.

Explaining how, in the three major WikiLeaks document dumps since July, the usual NET leaks became a torrent. All this, disguised as a Lady GaGa CD was smuggled out of an Office of military intelligence services according to the Government prosecutors by Pfc. Bradley Manning, soldier now imprisoned and charged of the leak.

Even for twenty years at the time of kilobytes and discs diskettes, such as an ocean of data would have been much more difficult to seize and take away. Four decades ago, with a photocopier, a leak could have required a large trains lot of paper and a tractor-trailer.

"I think it is true that large edges of national and international policies are much harder to keep secret today," said Steven Aftergood, who leads the secrecy of the Government in the Federation of American Scientists. "It would be possible to conduct a war secret in Cambodia, that took place at the administration Nixon."

Indeed, within hours of Yemen against Al Qaeda camps alleged last December US missile strikes, destruction amateur video was on YouTube. Marked video strikes "us." Strikes were never publicly recognised by the Ministry of defence.

Or travel press speed. In case contra Iran, the Iran u.s. arms sales would firstly by a weekly Beirut Al Shiraa in November 1986. It was a few days before the American press collected history. "Now should be a few minutes," said Mr. Aftergood.

Long before WikiLeaks, course, reporters often met with shake consciences bureaucrats or the orders of the day to produce sensational revelations. The Pentagon Papers is emblematic. More recently, the classical model of scandals revealed programs closely monitored the Bush administration has put in place after September 11, 2001: secret prisons of the Central Intelligence Agency; boarding and other brutal interrogation methods. the National Security Agency eavesdropping without court warrants on American soil.

All such disclosures led to public debate and action: prisons have been closed. coercive interrogations were banned; n.o.s. program developed under judicial supervision. But disclosures also eat a bipartisan sense in Congress and in that secret have been too casually murmurés journalists intelligence agencies. An unexpected result in the first two years of Obama administration was four lawsuits against employees of the Government under the indictment disclose classified information, more charges than any previous President.

This is reason to suspect that the opening of this new era will have limits. Aspiring leaks can no doubt be discouraged; they may be outmaneuvered ingame chat technology; they can learn restraint. And there are signs that this may occur in the case of WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks statements with "philosophy"Field of Dreams"inviting leaks -"if build, they will come,' "says Thomas s. Blanton, Director of the national security at George Washington University, which gets and publishes declassified government documents archive."They tried to create a safe place for disclosures. But with Bradley Manning behind bars, that will rush to follow his example? »

Now, with the third collection WikiLeaks linked to soldier Manning in the press, members of Congress have called with new to punish the Group and its provocateur Chief Julian Assange ferocity. Representative Peter King, a Republican in New York, has asked the Department of State to designate the WikiLeaks a terrorist; Senator Dianne Feinstein of California High Committee Democrat Senate Intelligence called espionage against Mr. Assange, an idea that legal experts say is problematic. Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut has requested an investigation of the New York Times because he has published some documents obtained by WikiLeaks.

Whether or not Obama administration tries to prosecute those who have disseminated information, is committed to using technology to keep its secrets. The Ministry of defence is scaled sharing of information, which its leaders notice has gone too far after information hoarding was blamed for the failure to detect the September 11 plot.

The Department also stripped self-recording CD and DVD of his computers. Review the design of security systems to require two persons, not a single move large amounts of information classified under an unclassified computer is;. and install the software to detect unusual size downloads.

Yet, even though the Government is seeking to rein in WikiLeaks WikiLeaks is slow in itself. Confidential diplomatic cables that he disclosed undeniably challenged the quiet world of diplomacy. But the communications were much more modest that might suggest self-proclaimed dedication WikiLeaks total transparency.