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Researchers are beginning to work on an approach they call social TV, which seamlessly combines social networks and traditional television viewing.

A Canadian university researcher is working on ways to provide security for RFID technology. His approach would let users know when a reader is accessing information on an RFID tag or enable them to control access to the data.

A proposed specification that would standardize Web-based fonts promises to enable rich typography on the Web.

Researchers have developed a new approach to steganography that could conceal information on CDs in a way that makes it unreadable by conventional CD players but detectable by specially designed devices. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2010.1

A standards organization has finished work on Bluetooth 4.0, which will offer high data rates and work with low-power devices such as medical and physical-fitness sensors.

For centuries, academic libraries have faced challenges in preserving and storing important written documents. Now, they face a new set of hurdles in preserving and storing born-digital material.