How Twitter’s Crackdown On Third-Party Developers Is Degrading Its User...
In response to Twitter’s continuing crackdown on third-party developers, IFTTT, a San Francisco startup that makes it easy for ordinary people without programming skills to link Internet services...
View ArticleFrustrated Google Users Seek To Give Tech Giant A Taste Of Its Own Medicine
Google Plus becomes ground zero for complaints about Google’s lousy customer service In 2009, a music video posted to YouTube complaining about United Airlines’ customer service went viral as an...
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Twitter Alternative, App.net, Builds A Developer Ecosystem
updated with most recent number of App.net sign-ups Only two months after Dalton Caldwell successfully crowd sourced more than $800,000 in funding for App.net, a real-time messaging API, the fledging...
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Forrester Analyst Warns Google’s Customer Service Woes Could Affect Its...
Forrester Vice President Harley Manning developed a love of research—and an obsession with customer experience—while designing user-friendly interfaces at AT&T’s famed Bell Labs. Harley Manning,...
View ArticleMathematician Assumes Sergey Brin’s Identity, Spoofs Larry Page, And Exposes...
Zachary Harris, a Florida mathematician, thought he was being subjected to a classic Google employment test when he received an email from a Google recruiter containing a huge security hole. Google was...
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Google Says Google Apps Domains Were Protected From Massive Spoofing...
Earlier this year, Zachary Harris, a mathematician turned security researcher, discovered a troubling security flaw in Google’s corporate email servers that would have allowed any savvy hacker to...
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Could An Internet Of Things Startup Be The Next Microsoft? Three Hobby Kits...
Historic Microsoft photo of Paul Allen and Bill Gates. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In January 1975, Bill Gates saw a headline in Popular Electronics for a hobby kit that would change his life. It...
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Google’s Chrome Browser Now Contains A Disruptive New Communications Framework
After months of beta testing, Google today quietly released a new version of Chrome that contains WebRTC, a collection of real-time communications protocols that includes everything you need to turn...
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OpenDNS Proposes New Approach To Securing BYOD Devices And Protecting Nomadic...
One of the biggest challenges facing corporate IT departments is the rapidly growing number of employees who bring their own devices to work—and then to continue working on them outside of the...
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Your Phone Has Been Hacked. Here’s What You Need to Know.
My friend Mike’s Android phone had been acting strangely for awhile. In the middle of the night, the phone would come alive. It would meander down various menu paths, send texts that were gibberish and...
View ArticleHow To Back Up All Your Google Data In 60 Seconds Or Less
Last month I wrote about the problems some Google users were having with the company’s online services and their frustration with Google’s lack of customer service. The stories these users told about...
View ArticleGoogle Prepares To Bring Its Smart Assistant “Google Now” To Any Device
Google Now, the virtual assistant hailed by Popular Science as “the innovation of the year” is coming to a browser near you. On Friday night, engineers revised Chromium, the open-source project behind...
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Apple Finally Lists iPhone 5 “In Stock”
More than two months after the release of the much-anticipiated iPhone 5, Apple has finally begun to catch up with the demand. In online stores in the United States and Canada, the iPhone 5 is listed...
View ArticleWill A Secretive Summit In Dubai Mark The End Of The Open Internet?
Update: According to Declan McCullagh of CNET, the ITU has voted to adopted a standard for deep packet inspection, otherwise known as DPI, paving the way for unfettered surveillance of information...
View ArticleGmail Outage Embarrasses Internet Giant — Cause Was a Software Update
What would life be like if Google crashed? People got an unexpected opportunity to experience Google withdrawal on Monday morning, when a configuration change to piece of infrastructure known as a...
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The U.N. Fought The Internet — And The Internet Won; WCIT Summit In Dubai Ends
Opening Day WCIT /Credit: ITUpictures For the last two weeks some of the planet’s most oppressive regimes have faced off against some of the most powerful Internet advocates in an effort to rewrite a...
View ArticleAndreessen Horowitz Funds IFTTT; Puts Wood Behind The Internet Of Things Arrow
IFTTT, a San Francisco-based Internet of Things startup with a passionate following among webheads, announced Thursday that it has raised $7 million in a Series A fund led by Andreessen Horowitz....
View ArticleWill Oculus Rift Be The “Coolest Gadget Ever?” An Interview With Creator...
The Oculus Rift, a much-hyped virtual reality headset that will be available to game developers in March, inspired yet another round of hyperbolic praise at CES this week. Geoffrey Morrison, of CNET,...
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US Department of Homeland Security Calls On Computer Users To Disable Java
Photo credit: devdsp Concerns about the susceptibility of the Java programming language to cyberattacks culminated Thursday night, with a warning posted on the Department of Homeland Security‘s...
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26-Year-Old Internet Folk Hero Commits Suicide After Years Of Government...
Post has been updated to reflect the per page price increase for Pacer that took affect April 2012 Aaron Swartz was only 13 when he started using his talent for software programing to make the world a...
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