Android L Improves Security, Raises New Concerns
FILE – Android mascots are lined up in the demonstration area at the Google’s I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, May 10, 2011. (Reuters) Google’s Android upgrade, known as Android...
View ArticleTech Sightings, August 14, 2014
Tech CEOs join the Ice Bucket Challenge What’s the Ice Bucket Challenge, you ask? The idea is that people dump a bucket of ice-cold water over their head and challenge others to do the same – all in...
View ArticleData-Sharing Apps Serious Threat to Mobile
Apps are seen on Apple iPhone 5s January 22, 2014 in Washington, DC. (AFP) When was the last time you checked the privacy terms before installing a free or paid app on your mobile device? A mapping app...
View ArticleTech Sightings, September 25, 2014
The Man on a Quest to Open-Source Cancer Research His name is Isaac Yonemoto. He is a chemist; and he is experimenting with open source software to make cancer research available to the world. The goal...
View ArticleTech Sightings, November 6, 2014
Microsoft Makes More Office Features Free on iPads Microsoft announced today it is releasing Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for the iPhone for the first time, and rolling out a test version of those...
View ArticleTech Sightings, November 11, 2014
Canadian Researchers: China Hackers Target Rights Groups Canadian technology research group, Citizen Lab, says Chinese hackers are targeting journalists and human rights activists with the same methods...
View ArticleNokia Silent in Salo; Social Media News; Cybersecurity; iOS Scam
Today’s Tech Sightings: Microsoft Shuts Down Nokia Phone Unit in Finnish Town of Salo Salo, a town of 54,000 in southern Finland that hosted one of Nokia’s first factories in the 1970s, has been hit...
View ArticleCuba on the Web; Indonesia’s Poaching Games; Mobile Addicts
Today’s Tech Sightings: Cuba’s Internet Dilemma: How to Emerge From Web’s Stone Age Cuba is finding its way to the Internet highway the rest of the world has been using, albeit very slowly. The...
View ArticleThe Pope & Tech; Internet Broadband; Tetris; Kaspersky; Firefox Chat
Today’s Tech Sightings: What Does the Pope Think About Technology? #It’sComplicated He poses for selfies. He thinks the Internet is a “gift from God” and has 7.2 million followers on Twitter. Yet Pope...
View ArticleSnapchat & Teens; Your AI Muse; Apple; Online Reviews
Today’s Tech Sightings: I’m 15 and Snapchat Makes Me Feel Awful About Myself Writer Ruby Karp argues that Snapchat’s latest update encourages FOMO or fear of missing out among teenagers. She says teens...
View ArticleDinotrux 5-Minute Favorites; TV Networks Reading Minds
Today’s Tech Sightings: Netflix, DreamWorks Have Videos to Help Parents Get Kids in Bed Sooner Netflix and DreamWorks Animation have teamed up to give Mom and Dad an upper hand when kids often want to...
View ArticleEducation Tuition Reimbursement; Facebook Blocking Rival
Tech Sightings: Udacity Now has 1,000 Graduates and is Valued at $1 billion Launched only 13 months ago, for-profit online educational organization Udacity has seen its 1,000th student graduate from a...
View ArticleVTech Under Fire; Apple’s Awkward Battery Case Raises Eyebrows
Today’s Tech Sightings: The logo of toy maker VTech, which has been in the spotlight since it a November hack attack compromised the personal data of millions of kids and their parents. (AP) VTech...
View ArticleAndroid vs. iOS; Virtual Reality: Hype or Promise?
Today’s Tech Sightings: A man walks past the Android entrance stand during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 24, 2016. The Apple logo is pictured at Grand Central Terminal in the...
View ArticleEncrypting the Entire Web; Facebook’s New Plan to Connect the World
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – A lock icon signifying an encrypted Internet connection is seen on an Internet browser in a photo illustration in Paris, France, April 15, 2014. The HTTPS web standard...
View ArticleNokia Silent in Salo; Social Media News; Cybersecurity; iOS Scam
Today’s Tech Sightings: Microsoft Shuts Down Nokia Phone Unit in Finnish Town of Salo Salo, a town of 54,000 in southern Finland that hosted one of Nokia’s first factories in the 1970s, has been hit...
View ArticleCuba on the Web; Indonesia’s Poaching Games; Mobile Addicts
Today’s Tech Sightings: Cuba’s Internet Dilemma: How to Emerge From Web’s Stone Age Cuba is finding its way to the Internet highway the rest of the world has been using, albeit very slowly. The...
View ArticleThe Pope & Tech; Internet Broadband; Tetris; Kaspersky; Firefox Chat
Today’s Tech Sightings: What Does the Pope Think About Technology? #It’sComplicated He poses for selfies. He thinks the Internet is a “gift from God” and has 7.2 million followers on Twitter. Yet Pope...
View ArticleSnapchat & Teens; Your AI Muse; Apple; Online Reviews
Today’s Tech Sightings: I’m 15 and Snapchat Makes Me Feel Awful About Myself Writer Ruby Karp argues that Snapchat’s latest update encourages FOMO or fear of missing out among teenagers. She says teens...
View ArticleDinotrux 5-Minute Favorites; TV Networks Reading Minds
Today’s Tech Sightings: Netflix, DreamWorks Have Videos to Help Parents Get Kids in Bed Sooner Netflix and DreamWorks Animation have teamed up to give Mom and Dad an upper hand when kids often want to...
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