Should the NSA report vulnerabilities to tech companies?
They want to know as much about us as possible and sometimes that requires them to find vulnerabilities. At what point do the decide that leaving the vulnerabilities up for...
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What’s making the Obamacare website break?
It's easy to sell the negative as a positive when political spin is applied. They're just getting more traffic than they expected, right? Considering how long they've had to perfect...
Apps that use the iPhone 5S A7 processor to its fullest
Software is only as good as the hardware allows it to be. Conversely, hardware might give a ton of capabilities but if the software doesn't use it properly, what's the...
Injustice game gets special edition that really is special
Normally, a special edition of a game is pretty ho-hum. They may included additional levels or new features, but rarely do they include expansion to other platforms. Warner Bros will...
Facebook TV partnerships go international
Facebook is a global company, though the majority of their revenue is in North America. They hope to make an impact on the foreign income by getting in bed with...
A different perspective on Snowden and the NSA
Is the NSA really that bad? Is Edward Snowden really a hero? For the sake of "fair and balanced", here's another perspective. The National Security Agency is under fire lately,...
LG brings curved screens to phones in 2014
Flexible OLEDs have been around forever in the world of consumer technology (meaning at least a couple of years) but they've been absent from smartphones. LG will be changing that...
Smartphones know so much about us. Why not sell that data?
It seems that every other piece of data about us is for sale. Why not through every little secret our smartphones know about us into the mix? Once, only hairdressers...
Extinct tree seed found in 2000-year-old jar planted, yields a tree
How long can a seed last in a jar? We know that it will at least last for two thousand years thanks to someone who decided to plant on. For...
LG gets into tablet market with their biggest strength: sharper displays
They have always been a display company. Now, LG is hoping to take this strength and turn it into a competitive tablet in an industry that's already overloaded with choices....
Do parents need help with smartphone-addicted teens?
It's sad that it's a valid question. Today, everyone seems to be connected and the younger generation looks at screens more than they look at anything else. Can the types...
Will they finally bring SimCity offline?
The launch of SimCity was a disaster, mostly because players had to be online to make it work, and even then it didn't really work. It ended up costing EA's...
Great ads for Samsung should help everyone else
It can be argued that the iPhone helped launch the other smartphone companies because of innovative advertising and buzz-building. Samsung may end up playing the same role with the smartwatch,...
Twitter’s secret revenue weapon is your data that they sell
It sounds worse than it is, especially considering today's hyper-sensitive privacy environment. This type of demographic data for sale made a decent chunk of change for the company and is...
The biggest problem with social media is inauthenticity
The strength of social media for business is in getting the reactions and sentiment about people and giving them the ability to see what their peers really think about a...
Is it ever okay to break VPN privacy?
The easy answer is, of course, no. However, this is really a much more complex question than that. When signing up to a VPN provider many users hope that they...
Tablet magazines failed. Here’s why.
They were supposed to change the way we consume our daily news, our weekly magazines, and our favorite publications. Other than some lukewarm success for some companies (some of which...
Big data isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
If there's a buzzword in the marketing and advertising world for 2013, it's "big data". Okay, it's two words, but that's not important. What is important is that the hot...
Twitter ratings on TV don’t match reality
What's buzzing on social media isn't necessarily indicative of what's actually being watched, but that's not stopping Nielsen from modernizing their ratings around social media. CBS Corp.'s "The Big Bang...
Call Bruce Willis. They’re searching for asteroids.
The realization that asteroids can sneak up on us after the Russian incident earlier this year. Now, they're going to really put more effort into looking for the big one....