Mellisa Tolentino
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Facebook Host Chat Looks Like a Blast from the Past
Do you still remember silly online chat rooms were about the most entertaining thing to do online? When AOL chat rooms were your haven, where you could pretend to be whoever you want in the hopes of meeting someone special (or just getting laid)? If you’re yearning for those days to come back, Facebook just ...
DuckDuckGo Goes Mobile with !bangs and Stories
The private search engine DuckDuckGo’s traffic may have increased dramatically in the last couple of week’s, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is quick to jump ship and abandon Google’s watchful eye. There are still billions more Google Searchers than those who rely on the duck, but that may change as more people come to ...
Cisco Live Touts SDN + Internet of Things : Blue Sky Marketing?
Cisco Live 2013 has wrapped up and there were a few exciting announcements made. Cisco announced that within the next 12 months, it will support software-defined networking across its entire portfolio starting from its two new routers, the ISR 4451-AX which is a high-performance branch platform that offers up to 2Gbps of forward performance with ...
This Gmail Snoop Tells the Worth + Secureness of Your Most Precious Data
Have you ever wondered how much your online account is worth to a hacker? If so, then this article is for you. Though there’s dozens of web-based services that conveniently store your data, today’s focus is on one of the most popular and personal – Gmail. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago developed ...
What’s New On Windows 8.1
Microsoft has unveiled the long awaited Blue update of its much ridiculed Window 8 platform. If you tuned into SiliconANGLE TV yesterday, you may have glimpsed some of the rumored and announced features coming to Windows 8.1 as well as other services expected to be announced at Microsoft BUILD 2013. Some of the previously announced ...
The Commercialization of Analytics : A Vital Thread in the Internet of Things Movement
As more things connect to the Internet, petabytes of data are being generated. These huge amounts of data don’t mean much in the business world, however, unless this information is dissected to its core and analyzed as to how it can affect specific industries. Take for example a recent statement by Wikibon Principal Analyst Jeff ...
Americans Love to Share Data, So Long As It Won’t Hurt Them
Analytics, or the science of analysis, has been used in business since the late 19th century. But it wasn’t until the 1930s, the dawn of the computer age, that analytics took a significant turn into the enterprise. In the 1960s analytics was used in decision support systems, and has been involved in the development of ...
Microsoft BUILD 2013: What to Expect
Microsoft Build 2013 kicks off today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and will run through until the 28th. This year’s conference is one of the most highly anticipated events Microsoft’s held in a long time, as it’s believed that it will shed more light on what Redmond is planning for the future with ...
The Necessary Loophole in PRISM, Government USB Ban
In line with all the security issues involved in NSAgate and whistleblower Edward Snowden, whether you’re in favor of the government spying on people or not, one overlooked topic is how Snowden was able to get the data he leaked from a government agency that’s supposed to be secured. According to Snowden’s interview, he used ...
A Small Victory for Ed Snowden: Lawmakers Propose to Block Unwarranted Spying
Edward Snowden, quite possibly the most wanted man on Earth , has a few more tricks up his sleeve as it’s been revealed that a whole bunch of NSA documents are still yet to be released. Last week, The Guardian newspaper published a number of new documents which revealed that PRISM gave the NSA access ...