Another Handy-Sounding Smartwatch Just Beat Apple To Market
It may not be able to carry the clubs like a caddie but a new "smart watch" can help a golfer find his range on the course, and its makers are taking a swing at the global market as part of a new trend...
View ArticleFacebook Drastically Cuts Back On The Types Of Ads It Sells
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is eliminating various types of advertisements on its website in an effort to simplify a system that it acknowledged was confusing marketers.The world's No. 1...
View ArticleAre Reports About The Government Having A Direct Line Into Tech Company...
The author was, until 2012, a national security analyst and defense futurist at the Department of Defense, where he focused on long-term, global strategic threats to the United States. He has expertise...
View ArticleObama Orders US To Draw Up Overseas Target List For Cyber-Attacks
Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks, a top secret presidential directive obtained by...
View ArticleEvery Company Named In NSA Spying Case Has Now Denied Knowledge Of It
America's tech giants continued to deny any knowledge of a giant government surveillance programme called Prism, even as president Barack Obama confirmed the scheme's existence Friday.In a blogpost...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: Crowd Lending at LebWeb
It's not often that there is a panel discussion where all the entrepreneurs on the panel are USV portfolio companies. That happened last week at LeWeb. The discussion was crowd lending and the...
View ArticleAre Waves Of Bad News Taking Damaging Bites Out Of Apple’s Brand?
Ever since Steve Jobs passed away, Apple has been hit by one wave of bad news after another. The International Trade Commission (ITC) just banned the sale of older iPhone and iPad models that run on...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: Crowd Lending at Le Web
It's not often that there is a panel discussion where all the entrepreneurs on the panel are USV portfolio companies. That happened last week at LeWeb. The discussion was crowd lending and the...
View ArticleBlip Enhance For The Internet
I keep thinking back to this comment left on AVC by Mike Nolan a few weeks ago:How about Blip Enhance– a small piece of code that continuously sends false privacy data to Google...Early naval combat in...
View ArticleSean Parker: Tech Guru And The Bad Boy Of Silicon Valley
Given the way he has lived the rest of his life, no one really expected Sean Parker – the hard-partying playboy of tech – to have a quiet, modest wedding. Nor did he disappoint.Parker and his young...
View ArticleHere’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where is the Market May...
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View ArticleHere’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head...
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View Article1984
“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even...
View ArticleInformation On More Than 17 Million Mobile Customers Will Soon Be Used To...
Information on more than 17 million mobile phone customers will be used to sell advertising on the internet later this summer.A venture set up by Vodafone, O2 and EE will look to profit from the data...
View Article3 Mobile Phone Giants Want To Sell Customers' Data To Banks
Information on more than 17 million mobile phone customers will be used to sell advertising on the internet later this summer.A venture set up by Vodafone, O2 and EE will look to profit from the data...
View ArticleThere's A Funny Sentiment Shift About Apple Stock On Wall Street Right Now
Earlier in the week I wrote a post previewing AAPL’s Word Wide Developers Conference (below) where the title suggested that expectations were high. Let me clarify a little bit, they are only high...
View Article5 Reasons Summer Is Looking Hot For New Laptop Sales
Laptop sales are in the dumps. Windows 8 was supposed to give them a jump-start, but Redmond's new operating system turned out to be worse than Vista.In fact, analysts are now blaming Windows 8 for the...
View ArticleRandom Inbound Email
I was talking to a friend yesterday about how I process random inbound email and I thought I ought to share this with everyone. So here it goes.I get a ton of unsolicited inbound email from people I...
View ArticleSony Is Aggressively Wooing Hardcore Gamers
To a backdrop of the biggest cheers heard on the first day of E3 2013, Sony adopted an unexpectedly aggressive approach with the PlayStation 4 which will, in equal measure, please hardcore gamers and...
View ArticleiOS 7: Beyond The Flatness
I actually like the way Apple’s new iOS 7 looks. I don’t immediately prefer it to what it’s replacing — the original iPhone OS was one of the most beautiful interfaces ever imagined. But much like...
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