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Policy Lags Behind Technology, the Vanguard of Cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare. The stuff of spy novels and giddily spiraling cyberpunk stories by the likes of William Gibson—while we don’t have vat grown ninjas yet, we do have the Information Age and the Internet and that means that information is key. As our lives become increasingly digitized and networked, though, it leaves us vulnerable to outside ...
Nokia Appoints Jerri DeVard to Chief Marketing Officer
With Thanksgiving almost upon us, Nokia has a lot to be thankful about—they’ve just announced the appointment of Jerri DeVard to as its new Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President. As a marketing mogul herself, DeVard should bring a lot of experience to her role. “With Jerri at the helm,” says Niklas Savander, head ...
Xbox 360 Kinect “Hackers” Need Not Fear Prosecution
English can be a very dangerous language to speak in if you happen to be a politician—or a major corporation. Earlier this month, Microsoft came out fulminating against computer programmers, DIYers, and others who wanted to modify and reuse the hardware and software of their newly released Kinect motion-capture system for the Xbox 360. The ...
Cable-TV Time Warner Seeks Respite from Poor Economy
As the economy continues to flounder and the rift between poor and well-off becomes wider, people have begun to cut back on their luxury expenses. One of those expenses happens to be how much they pay for cable-TV and the industry is feeling the bite. To draw back some of the subscribers it’s beginning to ...
Spotify Shows its Holes – Record Losses in 2009
Does everybody remember Spotify? They’re the first music streaming service to hit the iPhone with free tunes—but now they’re making electronic broadsheet headlines because people have started to obsess over their 2009 earnings. Music Ally has gone over the financials for the company in the past year and found some glaring losses: about $26.5 million ...
Hewlett-Packard Anticipates Market Changes
Strange things are brewing in the market today and Hewlett-Packard appears to have a spyglass trained on it. Market sources at Marketing Intelligence Center report that H-P’s stocks have risen fifty-cents today as their battle with Oracle rumbles and taxes in the UK might change their investments there. On Ireland, H-P and Microsoft have teamed ...
Kinect Homebrew Hackers Continue to Wow
As we’ve previously covered on SiliconANGLE (hackers and drivers), the moment Microsoft came out with the Xbox 360 Kinect they apparently fashioned a Pandora’s Box. The homebrew, MAKEr community have really risen to the challenge of the strange enchantment of the hidden capabilities of the Kinect camera. Not to disappoint, Engadget is running a story ...
The “Internet of Things” Coming, Embedded SIM Chips Will Lead the Way
A taskforce of major players in the telecommunication technology industry are getting together under the umbra of the GSMA (the GSM Association) to front a charge into getting every device mobile. This taskforce includes experts from all the major operators such as AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom Orange, KT, NTT DOCOMO, SK Telecom, ...
Google Brings the Cloud to Legacy Microsoft Office with Cloud Connect
Google Docs just got better for users of Microsoft Office when they released a plug-in for the popular office suite that connects Office to Google’s cloud. The plug-in, called Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, will allow users to sync and share documents with Google Docs. According to a ZDNet article, the documents will not ...
iOS 4.2 Update Comes to iPads: Multitasking, AirPrint, and AirPlay
A new software update is coming to iPad, bringing it a multitude of new features and improvements. As the Wall Street Journal’s Bits blog tells the story about the iOS update, it will affect a multitude of systems: multitasking, AirPrint, AirPlay, word processing, and more. The update, called iOS 4.2, was expected before year-end after ...