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App Offers Flurry of Exciting Features for Skiers

By Guest PostMarch 18, 2013Technologycanada, China, colorado, heavenly mountain resort, kevin ashley, lake tahoe, Microsoft, nokia collection, randy guthrie, ride app, silicon valley startup, snowboard instructors, windows phone, windows phone 8, winter ski, youtube videos, zoomable

Winter Ski & Ride app for Windows Phone helps you plan ultimate outings, keep track of your friends on the slopes, and beat your personal best.

REDMOND, Wash. – Winter Ski & Ride, a new Windows Phone app in the Nokia Collection, is taking skiing and snowboarding to a new altitude.

Say you’re riding a ski lift to the top of a snow-covered mountain, be it in Colorado, Canada or China. You touch the screen of your Nokia device, with frosty, gloved hands, and pass the lift time by looking at your stats. How many runs have you done? What was your top speed? You look at your contacts, and note what friends are still on the mountain. You decide to ski a mogul-heavy double black diamond run next, and watch a short video by a professional instructor to brush up on your bump skills. (more…)

YouTube Campaign Videos More Positive Than Television Ads

By Guest PostMarch 25, 2012TechnologyAds, jared wadley, John McCain, negative ads, Obama, partisan, political science, rob salmond, television, university of michigan, videos, YouTube, youtube videos

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—YouTube campaign videos are more positive than ads aired on television, a new University of Michigan study shows.

YouTube videos are more positive because they are narrowly targeted to the highly informed, high motivated, usually supportive people who view a candidate’s online video, said Rob Salmond, the study’s author and assistant professor of political science. (more…)

New Anticensorship Scheme Could Make it Impossible to Block Individual Sites

By Guest PostAugust 10, 2011Technologyalex halderman, Beijing, brainchild of computer science researchers, canada, censoring government, cryptographic protocol, cryptographic technique, https website, individual sites, internet, internet censorship, internet service providers, isps, proxy server, public key steganography, san francisco, steganography, telex, telex stations, university of michigan, university of waterloo, usenix security symposium, web, youtube videos

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.

The system is called Telex, and it is the brainchild of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Waterloo in Canada. They will present it Aug. 12 at the USENIX Security Symposium in San Francisco. (more…)

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App Offers Flurry of Exciting Features for Skiers

YouTube Campaign Videos More Positive Than Television Ads

New Anticensorship Scheme Could Make it Impossible to Block Individual Sites