Sharon Gaudin - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 9/06/2011 Facebook stirs privacy ire with facial recognition

Facebook's move to enable facial recognition across its entire social networking site is raising some eyebrows - and possibly some legal woes -- over ...

Article | 9/06/2011 So far, so good with World IPv6 Day

With World IPV6 Day in full swing, the test flight of the Internet's new communications protocol is going smoothly.

Article | 8/06/2011 Facebook raring to give IPv6 a test flight

After helping to hatch the plan for World IPv6 Day set for Wednesday, a senior network engineer at Facebook is raring to test the site's reworked netw...

Article | 4/06/2011 So, why are senior U.S. officials using Gmail?

When Google announced that hackers had gone after Gmail users, the company noted that they specifically targeted U.S. government officials and militar...

Article | 3/06/2011 All tweet this! Number of U.S. Twitter users jumps

The number of U.S. Twitter users jumped in the past year, increasing more than 50 per cent, according to a study from the Pew Research Center.

Article | 2/06/2011 NASA bids farewell to Endeavour, tees up Atlantis

After 19 years and 25 space flights, NASA's space shuttle Endeavour returned to Earth from a 16-day mission early this morning, ending its storied car...

Article | 2/06/2011 Google notes social failures, and touts its social advances

Just as Google releases its +1 button to the Web, many industry watchers are scratching their heads after hearing former CEO Eric Schmidt admit that h...

Article | 28/05/2011 NASA astronauts complete space station work

NASA astronauts Friday wrapped up the fourth and final spacewalk of space shuttle Endeavour's last mission, moving a robotic arm from the space shuttl...

Article | 27/05/2011 NASA astronauts boost robotics on space station

NASA astronauts prepared today for their fourth and final spacewalk during the space shuttle Endeavour's last mission to the International Space Stati...

Article | 26/05/2011 NASA makes final attempt to contact silent Mars rover

More than a year after losing communication with the Mars rover Spirit, NASA is making one final attempt today to contact the robotic traveler.

Article | 26/05/2011 It's official: Twitter buys TweetDeck

It's official. Twitter last night finalized a deal to buy TweetDeck, ending weeks of speculation.

Article | 25/05/2011 NASA astronauts to fly Orion spacecraft into deep space

NASA announced Tuesday its plan to build a spacecraft that will fly astronauts into deep space, going as far as near asteroids and even Mars.

Article | 25/05/2011 Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' overwhelms Amazon

Amazon.com came up with a good marketing idea in its battle against Apple's iTunes, but it worked almost too well as execs vastly underestimated the s...

Article | 25/05/2011 Twitter reportedly buys TweetDeck for $40M

Twitter has finalized a deal to buy TweetDeck, CNN reported this morning.

Article | 24/05/2011 Twitter to leave empty CTO post unfilled

Twitter's CTO left the company last week and there's no move afoot to replace him.