Today’s Tech Sightings: Microsoft Employees Serenade Apple Employees for ‘Peace on Earth’ Tech rivals Apple and Microsoft have been at each other’s throats for decades. But as the season of giving approaches, Microsoft’s Manhattan store employees took a special message to their old friends at a nearby Apple store in New York. Google Accused of […]
Microsoft, Apple Share Holiday Cheer; Is Google Tracking Kids?
Posted December 2nd, 2015 at 12:06 pm (UTC-4)
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Wireless-tracking Chip; Kids, Parents’ Info Hacked in VTech Products
Posted December 1st, 2015 at 12:03 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Former BlackBerry Execs Create Wireless-Tracking Chip Developed by Cognitive Systems Corp., the chip, called R10, can pick up and analyze wireless radio signals from various devices, including routers and television remote controls. Built on top of that is Amera, a wireless tracking technology that can sense motion by detecting changes in wireless […]
Nigerians Take to Mobile for Better Media Content
Posted November 27th, 2015 at 10:00 am (UTC-4)
As Nigeria’s mobile penetration continues to grow, more Nigerians are turning to smartphones and other mobile devices to get their choice of videos, entertainment and news, anytime, anywhere. Nigerians love their videos, particularly music videos. But only one-third of their viewing time is spent on television screens. More often, they prefer to watch videos on […]
Digitally Preserving Syria’s History; Vonvon Defends Facebook Word Clouds
Posted November 26th, 2015 at 11:50 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: The Digital ‘Monuments Men’ Are Fighting IS Devastation They are called “Monuments Men.” And they are in a race to save the world’s cultural heritage from destruction by Islamic State zealots. Working with non-profit group CyArk, they are using all available tech means to digitally preserve endangered structures by scanning them, then […]
2015’s Biggest Tech Turkeys; Windows 10 Kills Some Third-party Apps
Posted November 25th, 2015 at 12:40 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: The Biggest Tech Turkeys of 2015 Writer Roger Cheng conjures up scary images of Halloween ahead of Thursday’s Thanksgiving Day as he offers a brief look at some of the biggest tech fiascoes of 2015. Post Deletion Stress Disorder Is Real What is Deletion Stress Disorder (PDSD), you ask? Well, if you […]
Dell Apologizes for Certificate Fiasco; Amazon’s Bezos Joins Twitter
Posted November 24th, 2015 at 12:30 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Dell Apologizes for HTTPS Certificate Fiasco, Provides Removal Tool Dell has issued an apology after shipping PCs with a certificate that makes it possible for hackers to impersonate HTTPS-protected websites. The company also released a tool that helps users of affected machines remove the faulty security credential. Dell officials said the certificate […]
Sub-Saharan Africa Increasingly Going Mobile
Posted November 20th, 2015 at 11:00 am (UTC-4)
Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to reach 100 percent mobile penetration by 2021, with smartphone subscriptions accounting for nearly 95 percent of the region’s mobile data traffic. The region will see “a significant shift to mobile broadband” in the next few years as more people look to mobile devices for Internet content and data-intensive apps, said […]
China, India Dominate Internet Market; China’s Kids Take Up Coding
Posted November 18th, 2015 at 12:18 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Report: India Set to Become World’s Second-Largest Internet Market A new report from the Internet and Mobile Association of India and market research firm IMRB says India’s Internet users are expected to exceed 400 million by the end of this year, making the Indian Internet market the world’s second-largest after China. Latest […]
Mobile Consumes Teen Generation; Emoji Makes 2015 Word of the Year
Posted November 17th, 2015 at 11:30 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: I’m 15 and I Can’t Look Up From My Phone Mobile devices and their various apps are sucking in a whole generation of teenagers. Writer Ruby Karp notes how young people easily grab their smartphones in the middle of a social gathering or a conversation because they don’t know how to be […]