Oct182011

Win a TouchPad from G! | GQ trippin – see. eat. trip.

By eric on October 18, 2011

I hope I win!!

Win a TouchPad from G! | GQ trippin – see. eat. trip.

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Oct172011

Woman Sues Facebook For Allegedly Violating Wiretap Law – The Consumerist

By eric on October 17, 2011

 

cusing Facebook of violating federal wiretap laws by tracking her web use when she wasn’t logged in to the site, a Mississippi woman is taking the social networking giant to court. Her suit, which seeks class action status, is going after Facebook for trespassing, invasion of privacy, unjust enrichment and breach of contract.

Woman Sues Facebook For Allegedly Violating Wiretap Law – The Consumerist

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Oct172011

Skype now officially property of Microsoft

By eric on October 17, 2011

 

Microsoft has completed the $8.5 billion acquisition of consumer VoIP and instant messaging service provider Skype from investment firm Silver Lake that was first announced
six months ago.

Now, Skype is officially a new business division inside of Microsoft, and the company’s CEO Tony Bates will become president of that division, reporting directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. For now, it appears Skype’s products won’t change.

Skype now officially property of Microsoft

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Oct122011

Your Local Wal-Mart Is Coming To Facebook | Hubze Blog

By eric on October 12, 2011

 

Seeing as Wal-Mart has colonized every corner of the United States and then some, rural and urban, the retail empire will expand beyond the American Landscape into the infinite depths of the world wide web.

Your Local Wal-Mart Is Coming To Facebook | Hubze Blog

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Oct082011

Drug Maker Adds Line To Pill’s Surface To Delay Generic Versions – The Consumerist

By eric on October 8, 2011

 

There are numerous ways for makers of pricey brand-name drugs to delay the release of generic copies and hold on to the market for even a few months longer. They could make slight changes to the doses or even go so far as to buy a company that supplies a needed ingredient. But one pharmaceutical company is taking a new approach to putting off the release of generic versions — etching an additional score into the pill’s surface.

Drug Maker Adds Line To Pill’s Surface To Delay Generic Versions – The Consumerist

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Oct052011

BBC News – First superfast muscles in mammals help bats catch prey

By eric on October 5, 2011

 

Bats are able to locate their prey using echolocation produced by a special kind of “superfast” muscle, scientists have found.

BBC News – First superfast muscles in mammals help bats catch prey

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Oct042011

Cyberspying and Defriending: How Facebook is Finding its Way to the Therapy Couch | Psychology Today

By eric on October 4, 2011

 

As a psychotherapist in private practice, I can’t help but notice that Facebook is wreaking mischief in some of my clients’ personal lives.

One client caused a family scandal when he established privacy settings that prevented some, but not all, of his relatives from seeing his status updates. A 14-year-old client gave up Facebook for Lent, yet still managed to become entangled in a high school “de-friending” drama. A third client “disallowed” her arch Conservative brother from commenting on her statuses after he started arguing with her politically liberal friends. And finally, a 20-something client tried to gauge the temperature of his on-again-off-again girlfriend based on how often she “friends” or “de-friends” him

Cyberspying and Defriending: How Facebook is Finding its Way to the Therapy Couch | Psychology Today

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Sep102011

Historic Victory: 757 Species Closer to Protection#.TmrcP7oFXws.facebook

By eric on September 10, 2011

 

On July 12, 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a historic legal settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requiring the agency to make initial or final decisions on whether to add hundreds of imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species list by 2018. The Endangered Species Act is America’s strongest environmental law and surest way to save species threatened with extinction.

Historic Victory: 757 Species Closer to Protection#.TmrcP7oFXws.facebook

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Sep092011

Spoonful of Medicine: Hollywood goes viral with new Contagion movie

By eric on September 9, 2011

 

Flu season is approaching, which means it’s almost time to break out the vaccines and hand-sanitizer. But another method of preventative care may be a dose of Warner Brothers’ new thriller Contagion, out this weekend in theaters across North America.

The film begins innocuously enough with the sound of a cough in the darkness. But when the cougher herself, played by Hollywood starlet Gwyneth Paltrow, is dead within the next five minutes, you can’t help but pay close attention to who is coughing on whom and who is touching whom for the rest of the film — and, maybe, for the rest of flu season.

Spoonful of Medicine: Hollywood goes viral with new Contagion movie

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Sep052011

The Death of Comments: How the Like & +1 button killed comments | Hubze Blog

By eric on September 5, 2011

 

I’ve noticed a trend for quite some time on the different blogs I run, Facebook pages and Google+ account.

It seems that since the introduction of the “Like” button and concept no one adds a comment to anything anymore.

The Death of Comments: How the Like & +1 button killed comments | Hubze Blog

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