On October 14, 2013WaPo, with another Snowden facilitated leak, reports that the NSA is gathering hundreds of millions of emails through people’s contact lists and instant messaging accounts. It’s using the emails to analyze foreign intelligence…
Archives for October 2013
Wearable Tech Toys Will Grow Up to Change Everything
Sales of tablets and other small form-factors are already bleeding the life out of the market for traditional PCs, as well as flooding the enterprise through wide-open BYOD programs. Now wearable computers threaten to break out from the margins of the…
Security Hardware For The Masses
Securing your computer and phone are something that is increasingly important, especially in light of all of the stories about privacy intrusions we’ve been discussing the past few months. For the most part, the average person has tended to rely on…
Somehow Quora actually made quality scale. But can it still make us smarter on a smaller screen?
By Sarah Lacy On October 9, 2013Quora has barely thought about monetizing and has nowhere near the hype it once enjoyed, but give it credit for one thing: It has seemingly done the impossible. It has found a way to make very high quality user-generated…
Google Android Secure, Eric Schmidt Insists
Google chairman (and former CEO) Eric Schmidt thinks that his company’s Android mobile operating system is “more secure than the iPhone,” according to a ZDNet reporter attending this year’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. Apple would probably take…
Yahoo pretties email to woo Google users
Yahoo on Tuesday spruced up its free Web-based email service as chief Marissa Mayer continued her quest to win users from rival Google for online tasks people tend to daily. Upgrades to Yahoo Mail rolled out to mark its 16th birthday included letting…