A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
E-mail causes stress at work.
Your email could be killing you!
The University of California, Irvine and United States Army researchers released a new study on Thursday which found that people who do not look at e-mail on a regular basis at work are less stressed and more productive.
Continue reading… “E-mail vacations can reduce stress at work: Study”
Post office is the latest casualty of digital technology.
Digital technology is slowly but steadily replacing working humans. And the latest casualty of digital technology is the U.S. Postal Service. The post office is going to have to drastically scale back its operations or shut down altogether if they don’t find an external source of funding. 600,000 people will be out of work and another 480,000 pensioners facing an adjustment in terms.
Continue reading… “Are new technologies making jobs obsolete?”
The service, aimed at cutting the number of postmen and reducing CO2 emissions in the sparsely-populated country, is being offered on a voluntary basis initially. Volunteers will receive an email or a mobile phone text message as soon as their paper mail has been opened, scanned and sent as an electronic image to a secure digital mailbox, to which only the intended recipient has access.
The “highly automated” process of converting of letters into electronic documents will be conducted in “special, secured premises” where staff are bound by strict confidentiality obligations…
The economic downturn is causing most marketers to decrease media spending budgets, and the remaining expenditures are shifting further toward digital, according to a Q2 2009 survey by Round2.
Continue reading… “Media Dollars Shift To Digital In Economic Downturn”
“Sexting” — the act of sending naked pictures via text message — has stirred controversy in many communities and in the legal system at large as teenagers have been charged with pedophilia and forced to register as sex offenders for transmitting and receiving nude photos of underage individuals.
Continue reading… “‘Sexting’ Laws Stir Up Controversy In The Legal System”
There are plenty of people who live in the USA, but they are not there when it is time to vote. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could vote digitally instead of sending out the painful paper ballots. Well that may be one step closer to reality, if some serious issues can be overcome.
Continue reading… “Digital Voting Possible For Overseas Americans”
A new engine can turn a difficult search into a communal quest. Looking for an apartment online, day after day, can get tedious. Finding the right sofa at the right price can also be time consuming. A new search engine, called Yotify, is designed to make these kinds of persistent quests more tolerable, and hopefully more successful.
Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.
Continue reading… “Touch Screen You Can Feel With The Blackberry Storm”
That’s Easy, Gimme Something with TEETH!
A belly full of turpentine swilled rot gut, a drunken decadruple somersault down the slippery slope, a greasy slalom from one thing to another, and somehow, I’m blearily writing an inebriated screed to one Mr. Joel Johnson, subject line: “I QUIT, FAT BROOKLYN METRO-PUKE.”
It happens. Unfortunate, yes, but heretofore unavoidable. But Google’s latest addition to GMail plays defense between your impolitic inebriation and your friends and co-workers.
Continue reading… “GMail Goggles Stops Inebriated Epistolary Spewing”
Have you ever checked your personal e-mail at work, instant messaged friends on company time, or searched for a new job online under your boss’s nose? If so, you might be delighted to discover Vanishd.com, unless the thrill associated with the risk of getting caught is about the only thing breaking the daily monotony of work and keeping you sane.
MOST teenage girls love to talk to their friends. And talk. And talk.
In its fifth annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention issues, Proofpoint found that 41% of the largest companies surveyed (those with 20,000 or more employees) reported that they employ staff to read or otherwise analyze the contents of outbound e-mail. 22% of these companies said they employ staff primarily or exclusively for this purpose.
Continue reading… “US Firms Reading Employee E-mails On a Massive Scale”