“Monetizing Big Data is on the mobile operators’ agenda. Mobile operators want to know how to harness the potential of Big Data. They are talking about when and how to sort, analyze and manipulate the data to put it to use. In today’s climate of convergence, in which new technologies and networks are blurring industry… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Horowitz at the White House (1978 – PBS)
Via YouTube – Vladimir Horowitz celebrating the 50th anniversary of his first concert in the United States, with a concert at the White House – hosted by President Carter. Continue Reading
National Archives Issues Guidance for Managing Billions of Federal Emails
News release: “The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has issued guidance for Federal agencies on a simplified approach to managing email. NARA Bulletin 2013-02: Guidance on a New Approach to Managing Email Records introduces a new approach to managing the billions of email messages that are sent or received in Federal agencies. The approach… Continue Reading
World Bank – worldwide cost of lack of sanitation
Infographic: What’s a Toilet Worth? “Lack of sanitation costs the world $260 billion yearly.” Continue Reading
New leaked NSA documents hightlight extensive US cyber-ops
Washington Post: U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show, By Barton Gellman and Ellen Nakashima “U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The… Continue Reading
Congressional Authorizations of War: A Brief History
Via The Atlantic: All the Previous Declarations of War – Congress has formally declared war only 11 times in U.S. history, and authorized the use of military force 11 times. “As we head into a period of vigorous congressional debate over whether to authorize the use of force against Syria, it’s instructive to look back… Continue Reading
Phishing Activity Trends Report – 1st Qtr 2013
“The APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report [published July 23, 2013] analyzes phishing attacks reported to the APWG by its member companies, its Global Research Partners, through the organization’s website, and by e-mail submissions to [email protected]. APWG also measures the evolution, proliferation , and propagation of crimeware by drawing from the research of our member companies.… Continue Reading
Evaluation of Header Metadata Extraction Approaches and Tools for Scientific PDF Documents
Evaluation of Header Metadata Extraction Approaches and. Tools for Scientific PDF Documents, Mario Lipinski, Kevin Yao, Corinna Breitinger, Joeran Beel, Bela Gipp, July 2013. “This paper evaluates the performance of tools for the extraction of metadata from scientific articles. Accurate metadata extraction is an important task for automating the management of digital libraries. This comparative… Continue Reading
