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Lenovo Snubs Microsoft With Pokki’s “Real” Start Menu & App Store
Microsoft might be confident that its forthcoming Windows 8.1 updates will be enough to satisfy the legions of critics who’ve made a hobby out of bashing its latest OS, it seems that the world’s largest PC maker is less convinced. Fact is, as good as Microsoft’s planned updates might sound (bringing back the Start button, ...
Your Privacy Isn’t Google’s Concern, It’s Yours Alone
Last week the Consumer Watchdog turned up some court filings from Google in which, the search giant apparently claimed that users of its Gmail service didn’t have any legitimate right to expect their emails to be private. The apparent ‘admission’ set off alarm bells all over the web, with the Consumer Watchdog recommending that people ...
SmartThings – The Easy Way To Automate Your Home & Office
Lots has been written about what the Internet of Things will mean, with visions of smart office buildings equipped with sensors that track activity, responding by turning things on and off automatically, regulating the temperature and so on, but few of these offices actually exist. Problem is, smart offices require a significant investment in these ...
Can US Cloud Companies Can Put A Stop To The NSA’s Spying?
Yet more evidence has emerged about how damaging the NSA’s PRISM program has been for US tech firms since Ed Snowden first revealed its existence, but the question is now, do these same corporations have enough power to put a stop to it? One undeniable fact about the United States of America, since it booted ...
Facebook’s Mission To Connect The World: Noble, But It’s All About The Money
Facebook stole the headlines this morning with the announcement of its new master plan to connect the more than five billion people living in the world who’re stil unable to access, or only have limited access, to the internet. The drive, which was announced by Mark Zuckerberg in a blog post and the New York ...
How The Gambling Industry Is Betting On Big Data
Banks, retailers, Google, the NSA, they all lover their data. But one of the more intriguing use cases for Big Data involves the gambling industry, a sector that’s so reliant on number crunching and intelligent prediction that it’s been left with little choice to grab a hold of its masses of data and exploit it ...
Groklaw Shuts Down As True Cost of NSA Spying Mounts
And so the fallout from the PRISM leaks continues. As of today, Groklaw, one of the most highly regarded blogs in the techsphere that shot to fame with its coverage of SCO intellectual property lawsuits against firms like Novell and IBM, is closing down in protest at the threat of email surveillance from spy agencies ...
Google vs Microsoft: When Tech Giants Fight Dirty
Google and Microsoft have been embroiled in an ugly and protracted war of words for some time, and the rift between the two companies widened last week when the search giant moved to block the newly revamped ‘official’ YouTube app for Windows Phone. Google had previously done the same thing with the original YouTube for ...
Why Your Emails Will Never Be 100% Secure
Just days after the supposedly ‘secure’ email provider Lavabit, famously used by NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden, shut down its operations, a similar service going by the name of Silent Circle also decided to shut up shop last week. Silent Circle based its decision on the fact that it deemed it impossible to provide a 100% ...
NSA Audit Shows Government Illegally Spies On US Citizens
There’s no end in sight to the leak on US government surveillance programs by Edward Snowden, even as the whistleblower has sought asylum in Russia after promising that he wouldn’t continue to harm US interests. Despite that promise, The Washington Post yesterday published an internal audit and various other classified documents that show how the ...