Wired wrote a piece about how Apple and Google are trying hard to kill off apps. In part, I buy what Wired says – that it is about the user experience and if you can seamlessly integrate that experience into the platform (iPhone or Android) then you don’t really care about the app. I think […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week the FBI and DoJ testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on IT, asking for an encryption back door (or as the NSA has said they prefer, a front door). They did not get a very welcome reception. In fact, Rep Lieu suggested that they “just follow the damn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A European security research group tested a group of 2,000 apps from the Play Store and found they connected to 250,000 different URLs from 2,000 different domains. They found one app in the sample, Music Volume Eq, an app designed to control volume, connects to almost 2,000 distinct URLs. The study said that about 10 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T rolled out its Google Fiber competitor (see article) in the Kansas City, Mo. area (Leawood, Lenexa, Olathe, and Overland Park, Kan. ) for the same price that Google charges – $70 a month. However, if you would prefer that AT&T not track the web pages you visit, the time you spend at each, the links […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]LinkedIn has a service called a LinkedIn Reference Search that allows someone to search for people who worked at the same companies that you did at the same time you did. While LI does not give employers direct access to those people who worked with you, they do “recommend” that prospective employers use the LinkedIn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As reported in the New York Times, Justine Sacco became an instantaneous celebrity when she sent out a Tweet prior to boarding a flight to South Africa from JFK. Social media can be both powerful and cruel. In this case, it changed Justine’s life. The Tweet, along with one of the many photos of her, […]
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