Thursday, March 01, 2012
With about 95 million single adults in the United States, the online matchmaking industry is booming. Communication technologies such as Facebook, Twitter and Skype have created new ways to find and date potential partners. Despite all the digital bells and whistles, it still all comes down to a face-to-face encounter. Is dating fundamentally any different for young adults today than in our parents' and grandparents' days? (more)
Monday, October 24, 2011
"Student Showcase: How Tablets and Apps Transformed My College Internship" will be presented from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday Nov. 7, in the Foster Auditorium (Room 102) Paterno Library. The event is being sponsored by the Penn State iPad User Group and the University Libraries. The evening will include a technology "petting zoo," so attendees can see the devices and apps more closely. The presentation will also be streamed live and archived at http://tinyurl.com/psustudentshowcase (more)
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Publicly available cell-phone applications from application markets are releasing consumers' private information to online advertisers, according to a joint study by Intel Labs, Penn State and Duke University. Researchers at the participating institutions have developed a realtime monitoring service called TaintDroid that precisely analyzes how private information is obtained and released by applications "downloaded" to consumer phones. TaintDroid is an extension to the Android mobile-phone platform that tracks the flow of sensitive data through third-party applications. (more)
