Headlines for December 15th, 2009
Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by [modern media mom] in Lastest Headlines, Latest News, Links & Resources
- Want A Cheap Android Tablet? Modders Make Nooks Into PCs – "If you're looking for an Android tablet for less than $260, just modify a Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader — and you get a free Internet connection, too.
Reports from nookDevs show those interested in doing just that how to go about transforming the Nook into a Google Android-based tablet computer. But there are a few sticking points."
- How Facebook Is Making Friending Obsolete – "We'll need to treat this increasingly public version of Facebook with the same hard-headedness that we treat Twitter: as a place to broadcast, but not a place for vulnerability. A place to carefully calibrate, sanitize and bowdlerize our words for every possible audience, now and forever. Not a place for intimacy with friends."
- Supreme Court takes on texting privacy case – 'The Supreme Court said it will review a case on whether employers can review without consent text messages sent to and from employer-issued devices. The outcome of the case could have far-reaching implications on the level of privacy employees can expect on their work cell phones."
- URL Shortening Frenzy Comes with Security Risks – "The options for shortening long URL's to a more manageable length are quickly proliferating with both Google and Facebook getting into the link shortening game. The shortened URL's are easier to send via e-mail, and they are a requirement for Twitter's 140-character limitation, but they also introduce security risks."
- Teens blasé about sexting, but only 4% cop to sending pics – "It's no surprise that teenagers are sending each other sexual content on their phones. A new report shows that the teens who do so don't think it's much of a big deal, and it isn't… until it is."
