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Eric Schmidt’s Vision of the Future: Virtual Kidnappings, Drone Wars, and the End of Repression
Drone strikes targeting cyber-terrorists, hackers holding online identities hostage, and parents emphasizing ‘internet education’ ahead of sex education – this is the future that lies in store for us all, according to Google’s Eric Schmidt. “For citizens, coming online comes to mean living with multiple identities; your online identity becomes your real identity. The absence ...
Smartphone Sensors Could Give Up Your Passwords
Another day, another new security threat, only this time it comes from the unlikeliest of places. You know that accelerometer thingy in your smartphone – the sensor that makes sure the screen is always the right way up? Well, apparently it’s so incredibly ‘sensitive’ that it could potentially be holding secrets that hackers can exploit ...
Has Mobile Finally Paid Off for Facebook? Sure Looks That Way
After months of humiliation on Wall Street as its stock price went from bad to worse to embarrassing, Facebook raised quite a few eyebrows with an impressive Q3 performance in the area that matters most – mobile. Now, expectations are high that the company will build on those impressive gains when it releases its Q4 ...
Oracle Reinforces Its Commitment to the Cloud
Oracle gave a detailed outline of its plans for the year ahead yesterday, with President Mark Hurd reiterating the company’s broad cloud strategy across PaaS, IaaS and SaaS. There’s quite a few moves worth watching: Oracle is set to introduce storage sometime in the first half of this year; and it’s planning to roll out ...
Office 365 Available Now on Pay-As-You-Go Subscription
If there’s one thing that you can rely on Microsoft for, it’s the timely updates to its most essential software products. Last year we saw the release of its groundbreaking, touch-enabled Windows 8 operating system, and now today consumers can finally get their hands on an up-to-date version of the Office productivity platform. The Office ...
Self Destructing Electronics: Mission Impossible or Not?
Fans of the Mission Impossible series will be no stranger to the concept of self-destructing messages, but real-life spies, probably not so much. Meanwhile DARPA, the research wing of the US military, would probably prefer to avoid the Hollywood alternative of disposing of redundant electrical devices by ingesting them. There is a problem to be ...
Google Lifts The Lid On How It Handles Government Data Requests
After receiving a barrage of feedback following its most recent Transparency Report, Google has just updated the original to add a new section that details how it goes about handling each government request for data that it receives. The addendum ‘Legal Process’ is an attempt to answer dozens of questions that Google users have over ...
Pentagon Bolsters Cybersecurity Force To Head Off Foreign Threats
In the wake of the recent Anonymous hack of the US Sentencing Commission’s website in support of Aaron Swartz, Pentagon chiefs have announced timely plans to beef up cybersecurity, assigning thousands of new personnel to the vital task of defending US computer networks. The move comes just days after the latest embarrassment to US cyber ...
EMC Headhunts Vic Bhagat To Lead Big Data Transformation
There’s been a bit of a shakeup over at EMC this morning, with the storage giant announcing the appointment of the vastly experienced Vic Bhagat as its new CIO. The company put out a press release this morning shedding some light on its boardroom shuffle, revealing that Bhagat, who also assumes the role of Executive ...
Guess What? Antigua’s Upcoming “Piracy” Website will be 100% Legal
The threat has actually been hovering over the US for a number of years, yet now it finally looks as if Antigua is going ahead with the planned launch of its so-called “piracy website” that will allow anyone to download US-made movies, songs, games and software without paying copyright holders. It might sound like a ...