Microsoft Has Hired People To Make Positive Comments About Xbox One On...
Microsoft is doing something on Reddit that is a big no-no, according to a Redditor that goes by the name "mistysilver."Representatives of Microsoft may be hanging out on the social news site voting up...
View ArticleEx-Microsoft Engineer: PRISM Is Highly Improbable For These Four Reasons (MSFT)
Earlier today, we spoke to a former Microsoft cloud systems engineer who seriously doubts a report published last night that alleges a partnership between tech companies and the NSA.The Washington Post...
View ArticleThe Best Stories From The Last 7 Years On The Government’s Growing Surveillance
On Wednesday, the Guardian published documents revealing the government has been collecting months' worth of telephone "metadata" on millions of Verizon customers.The Washington Post and the Guardian...
View ArticleThe Washington Post Has Now Hedged Its Stunning Claim About Google, Facebook,...
Yesterday, the Washington Post reported a shocking story about how the FBI and National Security Agency had partnered with Google, Facebook, and many other tech companies to spy on the tech companies'...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Already Has A Short-List Of CEOs If He's Able To Take Over Dell
NEW YORK, June 7 (Reuters) - Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc are short-listing potential candidates to become the next Dell Inc chief executive should they succeed in a proxy battle...
View ArticleFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Just Vehemently Denied Giving The Government...
The claim that the FBI and National Security Agency are "tapping directly into the central servers" of the country's biggest technology companies to spy on their users looks ever more suspect.Most of...
View ArticleThe Top 15 Smartphone Apps Companies Forbid Their Employees To Use
As more employees use mobile devices for work, IT departments are getting nervous.They are required, in some cases by law, to track and control the the data stored on these devices.A type of software...
View ArticleAndroid Users Spend Significantly Less Time On Apps
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View Article18 Smartphone Apps Companies Love
As more employees bring their devices to work, IT departments need to make sure no sensitive data gets stored on them, and then winds up lost or stolen.So they use a type of software called mobile...
View ArticleNow Intel Wants To Become Your Cable TV Provider (INTC)
(Reuters) - Intel Corp's talks to buy content from media companies for its new TV service are advancing, and the chipmaker is offering to pay as much as 75 percent more than traditional cable rates,...
View ArticleEvery Company Named In NSA Spying Case Has Now Denied Knowledge Of It
America's tech giants continued to deny any knowledge of a giant government surveillance programme called Prism, even as president Barack Obama confirmed the scheme's existence Friday.In a blogpost...
View ArticleThis Is The World's First Practical Flying Car
The idea of a flying car has fascinated dreamers and aviation geeks alike since humans first got off the ground with powered flight.The concept has obvious advantages: the "go anywhere, anytime"...
View Article20 Startups That Mary Meeker Thinks Could Change Everything We Do
Technology is rapidly changing everything we do.Mary Meeker, a former Wall Street analyst who's now a prominent Silicon Valley investor, highlighted a number of innovative companies in her recent...
View ArticleAfter Microsoft Denied It Hires People To Vote On Reddit, Reddit Removed A...
A post in which an anonymous person described seeing employees at the Microsoft campus voting on Reddit as part of their jobs has been removed.The Redditor was using the name "mistysilver," a new...
View ArticleREPORT: Big Tech Working With Government On Special, Secure Servers Just For...
The New York Times' Clair Cain Miller has the best report yet, which reconciles the initial reports about PRISM (a way for the government to monitor internet traffic) and the tech company claims that...
View ArticleThese Are The Charts You're Going To Be Seeing In Powerpoints And Mobile For...
Every year, Ericsson puts together a massive report on global mobile usuage trends.The charts and data in this report then proliferates through Powerpoints and slide decks around the world.So, get a...
View ArticleQ&A: 11 Things You Should Know About Domestic Spying
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wait, there's more?Yes, this was the week that America's intelligence secrets spilled out: Classified court orders. Top secret Power Point slides. Something called PRISM.It's pretty...
View ArticleEverything You Can Expect Apple To Announce On Monday (AAPL)
Apple is holding its biggest event of the year, WWDC, on June 10.It's a developers conference, but Apple usually uses the first day to announce new products and other goodies in a big keynote...
View Article10 Stunning Facts About What People Are REALLY Doing On The Internet
What do people do online, how do they get online, and how are startups changing our behavior?Mary Meeker, a former Wall Street analyst and current Silicon Valley investor, put together an annual...
View ArticleSnowden Showed Evidence Of US Hacking China To Hong Kong Newspaper
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has told a Hong Kong newspaper that the U.S. government has been hacking Hong Kong and Chinese networks for at least four years.The comments were made as part of the...
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