Tag: DATABASE

On Friday, the Los Angeles Police Department launched the Tracking and Automated Graffiti Removal System (TAGRS) -- a program that allows law enforcement officials to track graffiti artists/vandals with their smartphones. Under TAGRS, graffiti-cleaning crew members can use their smartphones to take photos of any vandalism, and upload the images to a LAPD database. The photos are then analyzed, ...

Google's mobile apps have long provided normal clients with an easy way to manage their e-mail accounts, calendars and personal data. Now, though, the company is turning its attention toward the public sector, with a new set of Google Apps for Government. Designed with guidance from the federal government and the city governments of Los Angeles and Orlando, the new apps include many of the ...

When a person goes missing, closure is one comfort that families seek. Unfortunately, it's not easy to solve a missing person case, but a new online database could change the process. According to an Associated Press report, a government site called NamUs (Name Us) could help identify the 40,000 sets of unidentified remains in the U.S. -- if only law-enforcement agencies will get on board. ...

It was about 18 months ago that Monster.com's databases were hacked, compromising the personal information of roughly 1.2 million registrants (most of whom had signed up looking for a job, not for a new way to have their phone numbers stolen0. The job-seeker's site, of course, pledged to fix the hole right away, but, sadly, didn't do a particularly good job of it, as we're hearing that the ...

When applying to a prestigious establishment like Harvard, chances are you worry about a lot of things. You worry whether your essay used enough semicolons, whether that test score was high enough, and whether the recommendation from your favorite teacher didn't get lost in the mail. Chances are, though, you didn't spend much time worrying about someone hacking into Harvard's application database ...

The next time you order a pizza for delivery, be careful. If you give your cell phone number to the person on the other end of the line, you may actually be giving up any expectation you have that the number will remain private. A Bellevue, Wash.-based company, Intelius, has been compiling a hefty database of private cell phone numbers in some innovative ways, including mining some phone ...

For those of us with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), organization is often key. We develop special systems for tracking to-do's and routinely reorganize our CD collections just to make sure everything is in order: alphabetical order by artist, then chronological by release date. Some of the more extreme amongst us may even build databases and spreadsheets to track things like wines tasted, ...