Twitter and Google Go Red for AIDS Day, Snoop Dogg Comes to GPS
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
- Google's homepage dedications to holidays and causes are well known, but numerous other sites attempt to raise awareness for such events as well. Today is World AIDS Day, and sites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are all going red to honor the campaign. [From: Mashable]
- The emotionless, monotone female voice that is pervasive in gadgets and computers is steadily becoming more and more of a tired cliché, but several companies are finally fed up. Tom Tom, in particular, is releasing a navigation system that features the voice, and lingo, of Snoop Dogg. [From: NME]
- Social networking for New Yorkers just got significantly safer, thanks to the new Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act. During the Act's first mission, officials identified and eliminated more than 3,500 convicted New York sex offenders from Facebook and MySpace. [From: New York Daily News]
- eBay has been forced to pay a $2.5 million fine to perfume manufacturer LVHM. The French firm, which sued eBay last year for a separate matter, was upset that its so-called "luxury" scents were forced to mingle with the unwashed, tainted perfume masses in eBay's online marketplace. [From: The Huffington Post]
- Forget Match.com and eHarmony. Apparently, there are numerous free networking sites where women significantly outnumber their male counterparts. A Pingdom study has concluded that more women use social networking than men, particularly Bebo, MySpace, and Classmates. [From: The Huffington Post]
- Unbranded and untraceable phones, which lack unique IMEI identification codes and are popular with militant groups, are a significant problem in India. Officials estimate that there are more than 25 million unbranded models being used in the nation, so the government has launched a ban against them. [From: The BBC]
- In recent years, the race to get in on the electronic health records game has heated up, particularly after the government announced a plan to dole out billions of dollars for hospitals to make the digital switch. A new Harvard study, though, has determined that computerizing hospitals and clinics doesn't actually save money or enhance efficiency. [From: Computer World]
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