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Be a SPY with your Smartphone

On: August 11, 2011

Spies are everywhere these days (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) and their new tools–Smartphone cameras connected to social media networks–give them more power than ever. The OLD spies–in places like the Soviet Union and East Germany–would have envied the technology the average person has at his fingertips today.
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Going to a Party? Don’t Forget Your Phone!

On: July 7, 2011

Be sure to take your smartphone to your next party or business meeting (whether or not you are sexting)! Engineers are developing software that helps people locate their friends in a crowd and make new friends who share similar interests. It uses nearby wireless networks and smartphones’ wireless communication technologies to alert users that a friend who also uses the software is in the area–and gives directions to that friend’s location. The software can remind a user of a forgotten acquaintance’s name, or help him or her make new professional contacts in the same area of research. Who knows who you’ll meet?
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