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Amazon Offerings Irk India; Americans Split on Encryption

Posted January 26th, 2017 at 11:03 am (UTC-5)
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Today’s Tech Sightings: Amazon Has an India Problem Amazon, looking to expand in one of the world’s fastest-growing markets, has run into trouble with Indian officials on ‘sensitivity’ issues, for lack of a better word. First, it angered a lot of people a couple of weeks ago with a doormat bearing the Indian flag, for […]

Google Faces Age-discrimination Case, Mobile Ransomware Spikes

Posted June 30th, 2016 at 12:44 pm (UTC-5)
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Today’s Tech Sightings: Google Age-discrimination Lawsuit May Become a Monster Two people Google turned down for employment filed a lawsuit in California a year ago, claiming they were rejected because they were both over 40. Now, a San Jose federal court is being asked to determine if others who were also rejected because of their […]

Sundar Pichai; Alphabet; IoT Security; Microsoft’s Funny AI

Posted August 11th, 2015 at 3:51 pm (UTC-5)
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Today’s Tech Sightings: Who Is Sundar Pichai, Google’s New CEO? Out of the blue, Google announced Monday that it is restructuring. The Google you know will now be a subsidiary lead by a new CEO – Sundar Pichai. The new parent company is called Alphabet. Pichai has been with Google for the past 11 years. […]