Bad news for liars: Scientists discover an ethical and effective lie-detection method The experiment But how effective is this approach? Preliminary research on the AIM technique has been promising. For our study, we recruited 104 people who were sent on one of two covert missions to different locations in a university to retrieve and/or deposit intelligence material. All interviewees were then told there had been a data breach in their absence....

Samsung Mobile has high hopes on its propriety smartphone operating system, Bada. 10 months after its original release, the company is now prepping an upgraded version of the OS calledBada 2.0around July this year to be first experienced in India. Bada 2.0 will bring a variety of features and improvements, including Near Field Communication (NFC) support, a smarter home screen, and 3rd party Social Network integration. It will offer SDK support for both Linux and Mac, which makes it more convenient for developers to developapplicationsfor it....

Google+, Facebook and Twitter may be stealing all the social mediaheadlines, but there’s still a lot going on elsewhere in the social sphere. The big debate lately has been whether Google can out-manoeuvre Facebook to EVER become the number one social network. There’s an argument that Google+ may actually be more of a threat to LinkedIn as a social network for businesses and professionals, and that Google+ can co-exist quite peacefully alongside Facebook....

Livestation, launched in 2008, gives users an easy way to keep up with major news channels including Al Jazeera, BBC and CNN, from their computers, or on the go using the iPhone app or mobile site. Livestation seems to be earning itself a reputation as the go-to site for opposition groups in the Middle East who want to provide users with an alternative to state-run media. Much has been made of the Internet’s role in the Arab spring, but the site’srolehas largely gone unnoticed....

At the China IT Leadership Summit held last week,Marbridge Consultingreported that Baidu CEO Robin Li informally announced the Chinese Internet search company’s intention to acquire a small-scale English-language search engine company to improve Baidu’s English language search capabilities. This bit of news sparked our interest. The biggest question: Does Baidu plan on expanding beyond China to go head on head with Google? Although the Chinese search company has been successful in fending off the world’s search leader, Google, it doesn’t seem to plan to challenge it elsewhere....