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Despite using real-time search data, Google Flu Trends is less accurate at pinpointing confirmed influenza cases than originally thought. According to The Wall Street Journal, a study (.PDF) done by University of Washington scientists found that the site is less accurate than the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) flu surveillance programs. From 2003 to 2008, Google Flu Trends accurately predicted ...

Last May we reported that one in five Americans had ditched their landlines and had decided to go cell phone only. Over a year later, it's time for an update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who report that number has climbed to 25-percent, or one in four Americans that have cut the cord for good. The number of homes with both a cell phone and a traditional landline has ...

Share If you keep up with the news, you know that 2009 saw its share of tragedy. There was the Air France crash, Michael Jackson's sudden death, and the swine flu epidemic, just to name a few. While these tragic events were bad enough, spammers (or the vultures of the Web) took bad to worse -- capitalizing on people's curiosity and compassion with malware-infected e-mails that claimed to regard ...

As swine flu hysteria has gained steam, we've seen plenty of spammers and scammers take to the Web to profit from the paranoia. And now, the latest wolf in swine flu clothing to hit inboxes is a malware scam disguised as an e-mail from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The e-mail contains information about a so-called 'State Vaccination H1N1 Program,' which requires the recipient to create an ...

Bad news for traditional phone companies: Apparently, the recession has only accelerated the move away from landline phones. Now, one in every five American homes has ditched their landline all together, and cellular-only households outnumber those relying exclusively on traditional phones. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of cell phone only homes jumped ...

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the swine flu is a type-A influenza virus that affects pigs, manifesting itself as a respiratory illness before typically resulting in outbreaks among swine. Of course, as most of us now know, the disease can also spread to humans. So far, 40 U.S. citizens have fallen victim to the virus this year. According to the CDC, only one person remains ...

The National Center for Health Statistics, a part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a new study that reveals how far digital medical records have to go before replacing the mess of paper records doctors currently rely on. According to a survey of 2,000 doctors nationwide, just under 40-percent of doctors use electronic records. Most use them in combination with ...

Leave it to Google to come up with a way to help combat the spread of disease with nothing more than some search terms and an armada of computers. The folks at the Google Predict and Prevent team discovered, using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that there was a direct correlation between searches for flu related terms and symptoms. The CDC already collects data ...

Everybody knows that cyber-bullying (when someone goes out of their way to be a jerk online, a.k.a. 'griefing') is terrifically irritating. It's behavior that many gamers, particularly those in the online virtual world 'Second Life,' have turned into something of a degenerate art form. But is it a threat to our health? Yes, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The CDC has elevated ...