Today’s Tech Sightings: Cuba Has Been Filtering Texts Containing Political Dissent Internet connectivity has been a difficult transition for Cuba’s Communist government, which apparently is filtering out and blocking democracy and human rights key words from mobile phone text messages, according to an investigative report. The report, by blogger Yoani Sanchez and journalist Reinaldo Escobar, […]
Filtering Cuba’s Text Messages; Free Smartphones for India’s Voters
Posted September 6th, 2016 at 12:12 pm (UTC-5)
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Apple CEO Slams EU; Tech Firms Forge Artificial Intelligence Ethics
Posted September 1st, 2016 at 1:39 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Apple’s Tim Cook: EU Ruling on Apple’s Irish Tax ‘Total Political Crap’ Apple CEO Tim Cook described the European Union’s demand that his company pay nearly $14.5 billion in back taxes as “total political crap.” The EU had said Apple was getting illegal state aid in Ireland, whose government is divided on […]
India to Probe WhatsApp Privacy; DeepMind, UK Join to Fight Cancer
Posted August 31st, 2016 at 11:42 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: WhatsApp in Hot Water in India Over Privacy Policy Changes Messaging service WhatsApp’s about-face on privacy has raised eyebrows in the U.S., Europe, and now in India. New Delhi’s High Court has asked the government and telecom regulators to look into WhatsApp data-sharing after some users complained about changes in its privacy […]
Apple to EU: It’s Jobs or Taxes; Sri Lankan Teen Hacker Gets Fine, Jail
Posted August 30th, 2016 at 11:55 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Apple: You Can Have Taxes or You Can Have Jobs, but You Can’t Have Both That sentiment sums up Apple’s official response to the EU’s decision that the company received illegal state aid and should pay Ireland nearly $13 billion in back taxes. But the situation is complicated due to an understanding […]
WhatsApp Turns Its Back on Privacy; Happy 25th Birthday, Linux
Posted August 25th, 2016 at 11:55 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: WhatsApp Is Going to Share Your Phone Number With Facebook So much for WhatsApp’s promise to protect the privacy of its one billion users! The global messaging service today announced users have a limited time to opt-out of sharing their information with Facebook. WhatsApp claims Facebook won’t post the telephone numbers online […]
Drones for Refugees; Tim Cook’s Apple, 5 Years Later
Posted August 24th, 2016 at 1:24 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: How a Former Refugee Uses Drones to Help Others Survive Dangerous Sea Crossings “Drones for Refugees” is a project designed to help rescue workers move swiftly to locate and rescue refugees making the treacherous crossing of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas to a better life. The project was founded by drone expert […]
US to Cede Internet DNS Control; Window’s 10’s Data Mining Dilemma
Posted August 18th, 2016 at 12:40 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: US: We’re Now Ready to Give Up Governing the Internet The U.S. National Telecommunications & Information Administration says it is now ready to pass internet domain name (DNS) control to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California-based nonprofit organization. The move marks the end of a 20-year U.S. […]
Best Mobile Connectivity Is in Korea; Web Tracking Is on the Rise
Posted August 17th, 2016 at 12:11 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: OpenSignal: Koreans Enjoy Best Mobile Internet, Dutch Spend Most Time on Wi-Fi A new report from wireless signal mapping company OpenSignal places South Korea at the top of the list of countries enjoying 3G mobile connectivity 93 percent of the time, followed by Japan and Israel. The U.S. took 17th place with […]
Chesky’s Airbnb – From Bodybuilding to Tech; Linux Bug Hits Android
Posted August 16th, 2016 at 10:44 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: How a Former Bodybuilder Became One of America’s Richest Young Tech Founders His name is Brian Chesky. And the 34-year-old New Yorker and founder of Airbnb was in his younger days more interested in bodybuilding and hockey than in technology. But overbooked hotels triggered an idea and drove him to launch a […]