According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue came to [...]
The great thing about having a computer is that you have so many tools available to you. While some you may not know how to take advantage of, (hacking into someone’s computer, creating botnets, etc), there are some you can. How about using your computer’s webcam to monitor what is happening in your house, perhaps [...]
Webcams have been proliferating of late at the Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur (OVDAS) in Chile: nine are now linked from the main page of the OVDAS website. The latest addition is a new webcam for Chaitén, giving a view of the caldera, with an image that updates every 10 seconds or so. [...]
A bear who became an Internet sensation after a Webcam was installed in her den gave birth live on the Internet, The Sun reported Monday.
Pregnant Lily the black bear became a Web celebrity after her den cam was installed on January 8 so researchers and fans could monitor her hibernation.
In two weeks, she amassed more [...]
Turn your webcam into a photobooth! Snap and share pictures of you and your friends using your webcam. With Photoboothwebcam.com, you can quickly and easily take snapshots, …
Photo booth Webcam open a Flash based webcam viewer (you need to have an installed and working webcam plus the Adobe Flash plug-in for your web browser) that [...]
Last year’s ski season in Europe started early and saw an astounding amount of snow in most of the Alpine resorts. In contrast, this year is pretty poor, in fact, it looks as though there’s less snow than is normally expected at this time.
There is some welcome news though. This week will turn colder across [...]
Ray Sweger is a 25-year-old operations manager with a mid-market financial firm who landed the job he wanted 2,000 miles from home, not by flying out for an interview but by answering employment questions over a webcam.
Although video résumés are controversial and have not been accepted by corporate America, video interviews conducted over the Web [...]
Isabelle Jenniches: Webcam Works
Solo exhibition (closing)
October 2 – November 6, 2009
Cabrillo Gallery
6500 Soquel Drive, Room 1002 (below library) at Cabrillo College, Aptos, California
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 9 AM – 4 PM, Monday & Tuesday evenings 7 – 9PM
Jenniches’ fascination for live cameras on the Internet – webcams – began over a decade ago. She’s used webcams [...]
Hemlock dam on Trout Creek, the Wind Rivers most important spawning tributary is finally coming down this summer. Now with a web cam from the University of Washington and the US forest Service you can track the progress of this exciting project. See the webcam here. You need the latest version of Java to view [...]
Black smoke behind the Vatican
VATICAN CITY — Last time I saw black smoke billowing over St. Peter’s Square, it was the April consistory of 2005. But this, obviously, was very different:
When I stepped out of the Vatican’s press hall at about 2:45 to head back to the office, several journalists came rushing back in saying [...]