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Apple Settles ‘App-cident’ Lawsuit
January 20, 2014
Whoops! It was an app-cident. Apple is settling a case with the Federal Trade Commission by agreeing to refund customers over $32 million for accidental application purchases, according to Anna Gallegos in a Lexblog post. Jennifer Kerr in the Associated Press reports the suit stemmed from parents whose children unknowingly racked up large fines when playing games on their iPads and iPhones, such as Jackie Nussbaum. Her son was 10 years old when he unwittingly spent over $600 on the family iPad...
January 20, 2014
Whoops! It was an app-cident. Apple is settling a case with the Federal Trade Commission by agreeing to refund customers over $32 million for accidental application purchases, according to Anna Gallegos in a Lexblog post. Jennifer Kerr in the Associated Press reports the suit stemmed from parents whose children unknowingly racked up large fines when playing games on their iPads and iPhones, such as Jackie Nussbaum. Her son was 10 years old when he unwittingly spent over $600 on the family iPad...
Nurse Properly Fired and Denied Unemployment Due to Facebook Rant
January 19, 2014
Guevarra worked as a staff nurse at Seton Medical Center for 12 years. In mid-May 2011, shortly before she went to work, she posted the following Facebook post: Instead of spending my birthday celebrating, I will be working all night cleaning up feces. I loathe that effin heffer!!! Burn in hell you effed up spawn of satan. I curse you and wish you a lifetime of pain and suffering. That is not enough, right now I would give anything you small you down and pound you to unconsciousness. ‘Tang ina*...
January 19, 2014
Guevarra worked as a staff nurse at Seton Medical Center for 12 years. In mid-May 2011, shortly before she went to work, she posted the following Facebook post: Instead of spending my birthday celebrating, I will be working all night cleaning up feces. I loathe that effin heffer!!! Burn in hell you effed up spawn of satan. I curse you and wish you a lifetime of pain and suffering. That is not enough, right now I would give anything you small you down and pound you to unconsciousness. ‘Tang ina*...
10 Tools To Check Your Online Reputation
January 19, 2014
If you're not worried about your online reputation, you should to be. Following are ten cool tools you can use to check your...
January 19, 2014
If you're not worried about your online reputation, you should to be. Following are ten cool tools you can use to check your...
Essential Keyboard Shortcuts For Google Calendar Power Users
January 19, 2014
The latest in our Keyboard Shortcuts series. Keyboard shortcuts let you access frequently used features with a keystroke, and with your fingers never leaving the keyboard to use the mouse on your computer, saving time and increasing productivity. Many applications have scores or hundreds of shortcuts, but who can remember them all? It can be overwhelming rather than helpful. So, instead of an exhaustive list, we’ve chosen 12 essential shortcuts to more commonly used features and functions....
January 19, 2014
The latest in our Keyboard Shortcuts series. Keyboard shortcuts let you access frequently used features with a keystroke, and with your fingers never leaving the keyboard to use the mouse on your computer, saving time and increasing productivity. Many applications have scores or hundreds of shortcuts, but who can remember them all? It can be overwhelming rather than helpful. So, instead of an exhaustive list, we’ve chosen 12 essential shortcuts to more commonly used features and functions....
Free Law Project Is Now Even Bigger, Ergo Better
January 18, 2014
I wrote about the Free Law Project here in the Studio back a few months ago. Why wouldn’t I? The Project is all about making public information freely available to the public. You can research and download material from state and federal courts for zip, nada, zilch. More recently, I got an email from Michael Lissner, one of Free Law Project’s founders. He tipped me off to a massive influx of new material at the Project – LawBox made a huge data donation of 1.5 million opinions, opening...
January 18, 2014
I wrote about the Free Law Project here in the Studio back a few months ago. Why wouldn’t I? The Project is all about making public information freely available to the public. You can research and download material from state and federal courts for zip, nada, zilch. More recently, I got an email from Michael Lissner, one of Free Law Project’s founders. He tipped me off to a massive influx of new material at the Project – LawBox made a huge data donation of 1.5 million opinions, opening...
First Google Glass Traffic Ticket Dismissed
January 18, 2014
The first Google Glass ticket has been dismissed by a traffic court in San Diego, according to Julie Watson in The Associated Press. The revolutionary citation was issued in November to Cecilia Abadie who was stopped by the California Highway Patrol for wearing her Google eyeglasses while she drove, and was ticketed for speeding and for being distracted by a video or TV screen. Watson reports the commissioner ruled Abadie was not guilty because the Calif. Vehicle Code requires proof beyond...
January 18, 2014
The first Google Glass ticket has been dismissed by a traffic court in San Diego, according to Julie Watson in The Associated Press. The revolutionary citation was issued in November to Cecilia Abadie who was stopped by the California Highway Patrol for wearing her Google eyeglasses while she drove, and was ticketed for speeding and for being distracted by a video or TV screen. Watson reports the commissioner ruled Abadie was not guilty because the Calif. Vehicle Code requires proof beyond...
40 More Maps That Explain the World
January 16, 2014
Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world. Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. You might consider this, then, a collection of maps meant to inspire your inner map nerd. I've searched far and wide for maps that can reveal and surprise and inform in ways that the daily headlines might not, with a careful eye for sourcing and detail....
January 16, 2014
Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world. Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. You might consider this, then, a collection of maps meant to inspire your inner map nerd. I've searched far and wide for maps that can reveal and surprise and inform in ways that the daily headlines might not, with a careful eye for sourcing and detail....
Infographic: 2014 IDG Enterprise Big Data Research
January 15, 2014
The 2014 IDG Enterprise Big Data research was completed with the goal of gaining a better understanding of organizations’ big data initiatives, investments and strategies. A Couple Key Findings Include: Organizations are seeing exponential growth in the amount of data managed with an expected increase of 76% within the next 12-18 months. Companies are intensifying their efforts to derive value through big data initiatives with nearly half (49%) of respondents already implementing big data...
January 15, 2014
The 2014 IDG Enterprise Big Data research was completed with the goal of gaining a better understanding of organizations’ big data initiatives, investments and strategies. A Couple Key Findings Include: Organizations are seeing exponential growth in the amount of data managed with an expected increase of 76% within the next 12-18 months. Companies are intensifying their efforts to derive value through big data initiatives with nearly half (49%) of respondents already implementing big data...
Appeals Court Opinion Rejecting F.C.C. Net Neutrality Rules
January 14, 2014
A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out Federal Communications Commission rules that require Internet service providers to give all traffic equal access through their networks. The decision could pave the way for Internet service providers like Verizon and AT&T to charge content companies — say, ESPN or Facebook — to deliver their data to consumers at a faster speed.
January 14, 2014
A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out Federal Communications Commission rules that require Internet service providers to give all traffic equal access through their networks. The decision could pave the way for Internet service providers like Verizon and AT&T to charge content companies — say, ESPN or Facebook — to deliver their data to consumers at a faster speed.
The Wolfram Connected Device Project
January 13, 2014
Connected devices are central to our long-term strategy of injecting sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. With the Wolfram Language we now have a way to describe and compute about things in the world. Connected devices are what we need to measure and interface with those things. In the end, we want every type of connected device to be seamlessly integrated with the Wolfram Language. And this will have all sorts of important consequences. But as we work toward this, there’s...
January 13, 2014
Connected devices are central to our long-term strategy of injecting sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. With the Wolfram Language we now have a way to describe and compute about things in the world. Connected devices are what we need to measure and interface with those things. In the end, we want every type of connected device to be seamlessly integrated with the Wolfram Language. And this will have all sorts of important consequences. But as we work toward this, there’s...
