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Pew Internet Study: Teens and Mobile Phones

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Teens and Mobile Phones – Text messaging explodes as teens embrace it as the centerpiece of their communication strategies with friends, April 20, 2010

  • “Daily text messaging among American teens has shot up in the past 18 months, from 38% of teens texting friends daily in February of 2008 to 54% of teens texting daily in September 2009. And it’s not just frequency – teens are sending enormous quantities of text messages a day. Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month. Older teen girls ages 14-17 lead the charge on text messaging, averaging 100 messages a day for the entire cohort. The youngest teen boys are the most resistant to texting – averaging 20 messages per day. Text messaging has become the primary way that teens reach their friends, surpassing face-to-face contact, email, instant messaging and voice calling as the go-to daily communication tool for this age group. However, voice calling is still the preferred mode for reaching parents for most teens.”
  • See also via EPIC: “The U.S. Supreme Court held arguments in City of Ontario v. Quon. The Court will determine whether a government employer can review the contents of private text messages sent from an employee’s pager through a private communications company. EPIC filed a “friend of the court” brief arguing that data minimization practices should be applied to public sector searches and that the search was therefore unreasonable.”

    • Report: Retired Military Leaders Want Junk Food Out of America’s Schools

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    Follow up to previous postings on childhood and adolescent obesity, this new report: Too Fat to Fight – Retired Military Leaders Want Junk Food Out of America’s Schools. A report by Mission: Readiness, Military Leaders for Kids, April 2010. “Mission: Readiness, an organization of retired senior military leaders, is warning Congress that at least nine… Continue Reading

    Google Launches Government Requests Tool

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    Official Google Blog: “…it’s no surprise that Google, like other technology and telecommunications companies, regularly receives demands from government agencies to remove content from our services. Of course many of these requests are entirely legitimate, such as requests for the removal of child pornography. We also regularly receive requests from law enforcement agencies to hand… Continue Reading

    CRS: U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom: Issues, Policy, and Technology

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    U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom: Issues, Policy, and Technology. April 5, 2010 Modern means of communications, led by the Internet, provide a relatively inexpensive, open, easy-entry means of sharing ideas, information, pictures, and text around the world. In a political and human rights context, in closed societies when the more established, formal news… Continue Reading

    CRS: Multilateral Development Banks: Overview and Issues for Congress

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    Multilateral Development Banks: Overview and Issues for Congress, Rebecca M. Nelson, Analyst in International Trade and Finance, April 9, 2010 “The multilateral development banks (MDBs) include the World Bank and four smaller regional development banks: the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (AsDB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the… Continue Reading

    World Development Indicators 2010 released

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    News release: “The World Development Indicators (WDI) 2010, released today, gives a statistical progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The WDI database, launched along with the World Bank’s Open Data initiative to provide free data to all users, includes more than 900 indicators documenting the state of all the world’s economies. The WDI… Continue Reading

    What it will take to feed the world?

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    Nature.com – Q&a: What it will take to feed the world: “Marion Guillou is the chief executive of France’s National Institute for Agricultural Research, Europe’s largest agricultural-research agency. She talks to Declan Butler about how researchers are trying to meet the challenge of feeding a world population that is estimated to grow to 9 billion… Continue Reading

    StopFraud.gov – Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force

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    StopFraud.gov – Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force “What is the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force?: President Obama established the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force in November 2009 to hold accountable those who helped bring about the last financial crisis, and to prevent another crisis from happening.The task force is improving efforts across the government and… Continue Reading

    National Academies: Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States

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    “Reducing the intake of sodium is an important public health goal for Americans…Americans consume unhealthy amounts of sodium in their food, far exceeding public health recommendations. Consuming too much sodium increases the risk for high blood pressure, a serious health condition that is avoidable and can lead to a variety of diseases. Analysts estimate that… Continue Reading

    Symantec White Paper: Problems with Microsoft Outlook Personal Storage Tables

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    Death to PST Files, A Symantec Hosted Services Whitepaper: “Email is one of your company’s most critical—and most widely used—assets. According to a 2009 study by The Radicati Group, the average corporate email user sends and receives 167 email messages per day. The report estimates that this number will increase to 219 messages per day… Continue Reading