Monday - April 28, 2014
Cybersquatting is a seedy practice
that's as old as dot-com, but the upcoming expansion of domain names
could be breathing new life into the practice, while offering seamier
elements on the Net an invitation for mischief. In the early days of the
Internet, nimble squatters would register domain names of brands, then
sell them back to the owners for tidy sums. Rules eventually were
adopted to squash squatters, but with as many as 1,300 new top-level
domains appearing on the Internet in the next three years, squatting may
be in vogue once again.
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Monday - April 28, 2014
Last week, Microsoft delivered its
quarterly report, and it was a big deal. It was CEO Satya Nadella's
first real quarter and the Nokia merger was completed. This is just the
beginning of the Microsoft makeover, but two things indicate that in the
end, Ballmer finally did what was right for Microsoft in prepping the
company for Nadella -- and that Nadella was the right choice to lead the
firm.
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Monday - April 28, 2014
"Love is blind," as the old saying
goes, and that can be just as true when the object of love is a thing --
an operating system, say -- as a person. Case in point? Linux. Fans of
the operating system love it, perhaps even to the point where they can
no longer see its -- gasp! -- imperfections. Fortunately, the Linux
community includes some clear-eyed observers and thinkers.
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Friday - April 25, 2014
Space fans the world over long have
dreamed of exploring the universe for themselves, but a new, 12-module
kit from NASA and littleBits aims to give enthusiasts a way to bring the
thrill of space exploration closer to home. The new littleBits Space
Kit, launched on Thursday, includes an assortment of electronic modules
and NASA-designed projects and activities.
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Saturday - April 26, 2014
The Web has been abuzz with
discussion of the HeartBleed flaw. Security vendors and experts have
been falling all over themselves to offer advice on detecting or
mitigating the flaw, and consultants have been offering businesses
advice on how to deal with the problem. The NSA has been accused of
having known about -- and exploited -- the vulnerability.
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Friday - April 25, 2014
True, market-changing, life-changing
innovation comes from three key elements: passion, patience and
pressure. Apple is the poster child for this view of innovation.
Especially now. Especially when Apple is simply selling millions of
profitable iPhones and MacBooks and iPads, quarter after quarter --
after quarter -- with few truly "new" products to show off.
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Friday - April 25, 2014
The French government is considering a
ban on GPS-enabled apps that allow would-be passengers to track down
nearby drivers. The issue is being fueled by irked taxi unions that
increasingly are frustrated with -- and helpless against -- ride-sharing
apps. Thus has the government drafted recommendations that include
banning services that display maps showing available cars.
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Thursday - April 24, 2014
Facebook on Thursday announced FB
Newswire, a site aggregating content from posts users put up on their
pages that it will offer as a resource to journalists. The content will
be curated by Irish firm Storyful, which News Corp., at the heart of a
cellphone hacking scandal in the UK, purchased in December. Journalists
and media organizations "have become an integral part of Facebook."
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Thursday - April 24, 2014
A new Ubuntu Linux desktop line --
Ubuntu 14.04, known as "Trusty Tahr" -- lacks much in the way of new
features or eye-popping special effects. You will find, however, a fresh
batch of improvements in what is already a solid distro family of
desktop and server implementations. Canonical continues its record of
consistency with its latest version of Ubuntu, released this month.
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Thursday - April 24, 2014
We are constantly moving. From a
morning meeting to a lunch date to an afternoon conference call, we are
always on the go and so are our technology devices. They are with us
every step of the way, acting as our personal assistants, communicators
and life-savers. We are shifting from using static, desktop devices to
portable devices in order to accommodate our lightspeed lifestyle.
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Thursday - April 24, 2014
Google has launched a new feature on
Street View that enables users to browse through images dating back as
far as 2007, as well as images from different seasons and at night.
Street View users have long pined for the ability to look at shots from
the past, according to Google Maps Street View Director of Engineering
Luc Vincent. How neighborhoods used to look. That sort of thing.
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