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It’s one of the most disgusting business models in the world of technology. Those who support it call it a business of ideas. Those with a conscious call it leaching off others’ innovations. Now one patent troll, Intellectual Ventures, needs more money and they’re turning to invest
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been two years. Apple is going strong but its heart and soul are still… different. Here’s last year’s video tribute followed by a link to the letter yesterday from CEO Tim Cook. On the eve of the second anniversary of the passing o
They’re watching us. We should watch them. That’s the easy part to understand. It does, however, go much deeper than that. There are real benefits that can be achieved by learning more about what the NSA does and how they go about doing it. Today, the Guardian is reporting on how the NSA
Being under the scrutiny of powerful government agencies as difficult enough. When you throw in the vulnerabilities of our browsers into the mix, Tor users are suddenly feeling much less anonymous. Another day, another revelation revealed by Edward Snowden’s leaks. Friday, The Guardian reported that
There’s software for monitoring social media, but it takes more than a program to understand sentiment and visual meanings. When you’re as large as China, the number of eyeballs necessary to keep everyone in line on microblogging sites is tremendous. The Beijing News says the monitors, d
The breach of millions of users’ personal data is getting all of the attention, but what about the code that the hackers stole? That may be the much bigger long term problem. Adobe has taken several steps to calm concerns among its corporate users about the loss of customer account data and cr
This isn’t really a political question anymore. Government shutdown aside, the real question is whether or not the website attached to Obamacare can work long enough to get people to sign up. We said we couldn’t spend much more time assessing the Obamacare health exchange web sites, but we tho
Facebook paved a road that sets strong expectations for Twitter. They bombed at first, then fought their way back to be a big winner less than 18 months later. Twitter may be able to find similar success or they may bomb. It all depends on a few things falling into place properly, according to John
When a company prepares to go public, all of their dirty little secrets must be put out in front of the world so investors can make educated decisions about whether or not to invest. Twitter has some things they hoped people wouldn’t notice. Here are some of them. Twitter secretly submitted fo
As robots go, there are definitely some that are more complex looking than others. Not everything has to look like a Michael Bay creation to be potentially useful as an MIT project recently demonstrated. Looking at these reconfiguring robo-cubes, created by research scientists at MIT in the face of
Despite some backlash for inflated benchmark numbers, Samsung is doing well on the review circuit with their latest offering in their Galaxy Note line. Here’s one review that had great things to say about the smartphone. Last year I bought a Galaxy Note II and used if for about six months befo
The spy organizations for the United States and the United Kingdom both targeted Tor, a private network that allows users to surf the web anonymously. Now, they’re upset and they want people to know about it. The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against pe
