Report: Neither iOS Nor Android Inherently More Secure Than the Other Apple might have an edge over Android in mobile app security, but a report by Marble Security found that companies face data breach risks regardless of the platform if they let their employees bring in their own devices. A ‘Bionic Pancreas’ Might Transform How […]
Tech Sightings, June 17, 2014
Posted June 17th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Apple Opens Applications for $100 million Program to Boost Tech in Schools Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is soliciting applications for its part of a White House initiative to improve connectivity and technology in schools. The initiative aims to get 95 percent of American students on high-speed networks by 2019. Cyberprotesters Target Brazil’s Digital Government Infrastructure […]
Tech Sightings, June 4, 2014
Posted June 4th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
China State Media Calls for ‘Severe Punishment’ for Google, Apple, US Tech Firms The People’s Daily said on its microblog that U.S. technology companies like Apple, Google, Yahoo, Cisco, Microsoft, Facebook and others threaten China’s cybersecurity and Chinese Internet users, and they should be severely punished. LinkedIn Draws Fire for Tiananmen Square Censorship LinkedIn is being […]
Tech Sightings, June 3, 2014
Posted June 3rd, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Apple Expands into Health, Home Apple’s 25th annual conference for application developers unveiled plans to expand the company’s products into home and health management with new tools that track health and control household appliances. Internet Balloons in the Sky Can Also Fall Down Filling the sky with Internet balloons sounds like a cool idea that […]
Tech Sightings, April 16, 2014
Posted April 16th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Mt. Gox Files for Liquidation Citing rehabilitation issues, Mt. Gox asked a Tokyo-based court for permission to close its doors, thereby abandoning any plans to rebuild its business under bankruptcy protection in Japan and the United States. A Kinder, Gentler Robot is Coming MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is experimenting with the first […]
Tech Sightings, March 11, 2014
Posted March 11th, 2014 at 2:21 pm (UTC-5)
Limitations of Technology in Tracking Missing Planes Technology is a wonderful thing – with apps for just about everything these days. So how then can a big Malaysian passenger jet simply disappear without any electronic way of tracking it? Crowdsourcing the Search for Malaysia Flight 370 A Colorado satellite imaging company has launched an effort […]
Tech Sightings, March 4, 2014
Posted March 4th, 2014 at 2:08 pm (UTC-5)
Facebook Looks To Drone Technology To Connect The World To The Web Facebook is reportedly looking to boost its Internet.org connectivity project with a $60m purchase of Titan Aerospace in an effort to bring affordable connectivity to more of the the world’s unconnected five billion people. Titan Aerospace manufacture near-orbital, solar-powered drones which can fly […]