Daily Dispatches are a collection of interesting pieces of news regarding computers, electronics, and technology gathered from around the Web by Dirk Klingner, our technology trend watcher, and other staffers. If you have a hot tip, leave a comment below.
Finding the laws that govern us (Official Google Blog)
...Starting today, we're enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) or other queries that you are interested in.
Are tweeting surgeons a step too far? (BizReport)
...Surgeons, along with many in the medical profession, are tweeting on the job, usually via nurses present in the operating theater, to anxious relatives and friends about the progress of the surgery and the state of the patient.
MasterCard to authenticate online transactions by phone (ComputerWorld)
The added layer of security comes from a one-time password that the user is asked to enter when approving a transaction. The password is either sent via an SMS (Short Message Service) or created by an application that runs on a smartphone or a phone that supports Java.
Just The Facts: Factery Labs Trims The Web Down To The Important Bits (TechCrunch)
...Factery is a new search engine/API that uses advanced language processing to sift through content on the web to identify the most factual statements — in other words, it takes news articles and webpages and breaks them down into a handful of bulletpoints on the fly.
An update to Google Earth for the iPhone (Google Mobile Blog)
...We've added some exciting new features, including the ability to view maps that you create on your desktop computer right from your iPhone, explore the app in new languages, and improved icon selection and performance.
Lighter side: YouTube sensation Sam Tsui talks with Time.
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