technology: Mission: Impossible Meets Star Trek…Cloaked Self-Destructing Emails!
- 04/22/12 02:40 AM
Mission: Impossible Meets Star Trek…Cloaked Self-Destructing Emails! Did you every wish that an email would self-destruct after the recipient opened and read it? Enter New Jersey’s AT&T researchers, Paul Henry and Hui Luo. They work in the company’s Middletown laboratory and have received a patent for their method of sending such off-the-record communications. Approved by the U.S. Patent Office last month, seven years after submission, their “cloaking technology keeps copies of messages off external servers and lets senders set triggers for automatic deletion.” (full article) Telecommunication analysts say any service that makes messages truly irretrievable might run afoul of … (8 comments)
technology: The Only Constant Is Change-Twitter Rolling Out Simplifications
- 09/14/10 11:28 PM
The Only Constant is Change...Twitter Rolling Out Simplifications?Twitter users should be seeing some changes in the popular social network over the next few weeks. The New York Times reported the designers are simplifying (?) the site making it easier to learn about Twitter post authors, conversations among Twitter users, and links within Twitter posts to photos and videos. According to the NY Times report, on the new Twitter site, people see two panes instead of a single time line of posts. The time line stays in the left pane. In the right pane, they can see more information about posts, like … (5 comments)
technology: What the Blip? Way Too Much Information!
- 03/04/10 10:22 PM
What the Blip...I have done my best to keep up with advances in client conact through various social media, but this one step too far. The newest entry into to apparent need for people to share personal information (way too much IMHO)? Blippy joins Facebook and Twitter.Blippy is a service that allows you to automatically share your credit card transactions as you make them. This includes the place you made the purchase, the amount, and in some cases, the item. This is all placed in a social stream where other Blippy users can comment on and “like” the various items.Call me old … (12 comments)
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