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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 ...
Vietnam’s Cities Use Big Data To Ward Off Traffic & Pollution
If you want to see how ‘Smart Cities’ are evolving and taking shape, look no further than the Vietnamese city of Da Nang, which has just signed an agreement with IBM to intelligently manage its water and transportation infrastructure. Da Nang is one of the few places in the world that’s managed to buck the ...
Facebook To Rival PayPal With Mobile Payments Service
Facebook has just hit upon yet another money making scheme, with a report in AllThingsD claiming that the social media network is set to take on payment processing giant PayPal in the ecommerce industry. According to the report, Facebook is planning to offer mobile web shoppers the ability to buy goods online simply by entering ...
Android Malware Problems Pile Up with Bitcoin & Google Cloud Messaging
Security problems for Android are piling up, with an additional two vulnerabilities discovered in the mobile operating system over the last 24 hours, including one that was said to have been exploited in a $5,700 Bitcoin heist, and a second that allows cybercriminals to control malware on infected devices via the Google Cloud Messaging service. ...
Carl Icahn Muscles In On Apple – Should Tim Cook Be Worried?
Not content with trying to scuttle Michael Dell’s plans to take the world’s #3 PC maker private again, activist investor Carl Icahn has suddenly made a huge play for Apple as well. According to the Wall Street Journal, 77-year old Icahn claims to have taken a “large position” in Apple, causing a huge kerfuffle with ...
DARPA Investigates Big Data’s ‘National Security Threat’
When it comes to tracking down someone’s movements and contacts through their internet and phone records, America’s national security agencies do a pretty damn good job of it. But what are the implications of some other, outside entity getting their hands on the kind of Big Data that we now know the NSA is routinely ...
Wearable Tech in the Enterprise: Should IT Managers Be Worried?
Disruptive technologies are known as such for the way they shake IT systems to the core, and by all accounts we’re about to crash headlong into the next one, with the emergence of wearable technologies just around the coriner. We’ve actually had wearable computing in various forms for some time – certain industries, like the ...
IDC Says Consumers Don’t Want To Touch Windows 8 Laptops
Late last year, when Windows 8 made its debut amidst a worrying decline over PC sales, Microsoft bet heavily on being able to lure consumers with a fancy new range of touch-enabled laptops that it hoped would sweep over the market and rejuvenate the industry. Alongside Microsoft’s much-vaunted Surface Pro and RT ultrabooks, most major ...
Time To Ditch Android: ZTE’s Firefox Phone Finally Lands On eBay
If you’re at all like me and have been itching to get your hands on a funky new Firefox phone but unfortunately don’t live in one of the nine countries currently selling them, well today’s your lucky day. ZTE, the Chinese company that makes the Open Firefox phone, has just taken the rather unusual step ...