The U.S. Senate, having just held hearings on the state of Internet privacy in our fair land, have decided to do it again in a few days time. With users happily and freely giving away their information, does anyone really care?
Android tablets are notoriously not coming anywhere near matching the sales of market-leader Apple’s iPad. Instead, sales are fairly dismal and Jen-Hsun Huang thinks he knows what is causing the problems.
If you look for them, you will find that there are many thousands of stories out there about the business aspects of the cloud, and especially how companies should be working to monetize it. There are relatively few, though, about security.
Google and Facebook, the two companies that have the most to gain by getting us to give them our data so that they can make money from it, have noticed that they are heading the same direction, which may start a war.
News and rumor are swirling wildly because Google is hosting their I/O conference in San Francisco. One rumor today has it that Google will have a go at laptop branding and sales in the near future.
As has been widely rumored over the past few days, Microsoft has agreed to purchase Skype. The amount of the acquisition sets a new record for such purchases by Microsoft, a total of $8.5 billion.
Samsung has just announced that they will begin shipping a premium 75-inch LED backlit television soon, making it the largest television of its kind available anywhere in the world.
Next time Facebook tells you they care about privacy and are doing everything they can to provide you with it, go take another look at Privachi, a budding replacement for Facebook that gets privacy right.
There are rumors floating around on the street that Skype may be ripe for an acquisition and that the main suitors would appear to be Google and Facebook. Are either of those companies a good fit?
There was a recent accusation by Julian Assange, of Wikileaks fame, that Facebook is a spy organization extraordinaire.The Truth is not nearly that exciting. Facebook is just a privacy panderer.
Two masters of the legacy paradigm (read “old”) have teamed up to bring us twice as much non-excitement. Microsoft and RIM will be joining forces to bring us the Bing-Blackberry duo. (yawn)
Time, Inc. has announced that subscribers of three of the company’s magazines (Time, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated) will now be able to access content from their iPads. Did Apple give ground?
Many blogs are always written by the same person, but there are a lot of reasons why people need to add a second user to their WordPress blogs. If you’ve not done it before, it can be intimidating. Here’s how.
In the battle for supremacy that has become the tech sector, there are winners, losers, and those that are just treading water. RIM is currently a big negative, Microsoft is about even, and Apple is riding high.
Every time one turns around, one is confronted with another situation in which hackers have broken into a major network and compromised the privacy of it users. When will The Cloud shape up?
One must suppose that being the best does indeed put a company in line to having millions of potshots taken at it. The world continues to berate Apple about a GPS file, ignoring Android and Microsoft.
Whenever the analysts talk about Netflix they throw in some doom and gloom, saying that the spectacular growth of the video rental company can’t continue. Yet every time Netflix just gets bigger.
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