Today’s Tech Sightings: Ericsson: India Will Have 810 Million Smartphone Users by 2021 India already has the world’s fastest-growing smartphone market, and that’s likely to continue. According to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report, India’s mobile subscriptions will grow to 1.37 billion by 2021. In the first quarter of 2016, India added 21 million new mobile subscribers, compared […]
India Tops World Smartphone Growth; The Most Hackable Nations
Posted June 7th, 2016 at 10:52 am (UTC-5)
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Musk: We’re Probably Living in a Video Game; the Future With AI
Posted June 2nd, 2016 at 12:09 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Elon Musk: We’re Probably Living in a Video Game Speaking at California’s Code Conference, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk warned that the lines between the real world and increasingly-sophisticated simulated environments could become so blurred that it will be hard to distinguish reality from simulation. The scenario is not […]
Android’s Location Data Jackpot; Google Search Adds Privacy Controls
Posted June 1st, 2016 at 11:20 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Police Filing Warrants for Android’s Vast Store of Location Data If you use Google Maps on your Android device, you should know the software has a feature that builds a comprehensive history of the places you visit. Google’s Location History system collects the information, which is then used in Maps. The resulting […]
Stolen Tumblr Data Up for Sale; US, Vietnam World’s Biggest Spammers
Posted May 31st, 2016 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: 65 Million Tumblr Account Records Up for sale on Underground Market A few week after Tumblr notified users it suffered a data breach, 65 million records showed up for sale on the dark web. The information is on offer on a dark market site called TheRealDeal, owned by the same person who […]
Selfies for Security? Just Don’t Blink on Facebook
Posted May 27th, 2016 at 10:30 am (UTC-5)
Selfies – those digital expressions of self-infatuation and keepers of memories – are slowly emerging as a potential replacement for passwords. But cybersecurity experts caution that they can only be an effective deterrent as part of a multi-layered security defense. Some companies are already experimenting with selfies to authenticate credit card users for financial transactions, […]
Twitter Eases 140-Character Limit; Google Toys With Killing Passwords
Posted May 24th, 2016 at 11:49 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Twitter Makes Important Changes to Its 140-character Limit, Ditching ‘@mention’ Twitter is moving forward with changes to its 140-character limit that take links and @replies out of the word count. Pictures and other attachments will no longer count toward the 140-character count. A retweet button will also be added to personal tweets. […]
Foxconn Nabs Nokia Dumbphone Brand; LinkedIn Data Posted for Sale
Posted May 18th, 2016 at 11:48 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Why a Taiwanese Company Is Paying $350 Million to Build Nokia Dumbphones Microsoft announced Wednesday it is selling its featurephone Nokia brand to Foxconn, a Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer best known as the manufacturer of iPhones. Old fashioned featurephones, also known as dumbphones, are still very popular around the world and show no […]
Chinese Proposals Tighten Internet Control; Law Firm Hires AI Robot
Posted May 17th, 2016 at 11:26 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: US: Proposed Chinese Regulations Could Fragment the Internet China is planning to push forward with new proposals requiring domain names to be registered through government-licensed providers. If the new rules are approved, they would also prevent some websites whose content is broadly defined as prohibited from registering. In a statement, U.S. officials […]
In the Right Hands, This Game Teaches Kids About Cybersecurity
Posted May 13th, 2016 at 10:52 am (UTC-5)
When Matt Trobbiani created Hacknet, it was intended as a game, no more, no less — until he discovered it was being used to train cyber warfare teams. Now, he is testing educational versions of the game to teach school kids and would-be sleuths about cybersecurity. It started out at a game-jam competition as a […]