Reports on some aspect or other of cybercrime are highlighted in the press and in dozens of blogs on a daily basis. Whether it is phishing, botnets, or ID theft, what is the truth behind the numbers? Where are the real figures?
Unemployment is stubbornly hovering just shy of 10 percent. So why are states killing jobs, by continuing to pass laws to collect sales tax from out-of-state online retailers?
Lots of big brands are in hot water right now -- witness the many rapid-fire hits Toyota's taken in recent weeks. Now it turns out the beloved Energizer Bunny may himself be a malicious hacker.
The United States Treasury Department this week announced that, after receiving direction from the Obama Administration, it has amended sanctions on Cuba, Sudan, and Iran, allowing for the exportation of US-based "services and software related to the exchange of personal communications over the Internet, including web browsing, blogging, email, instant messaging, and chat; social networking; and photo and movie sharing."
In today's SXSW Interactive session on Enterprise 2.0, Andrew McAfee, principle research scientist with MIT's Center for Digital Business, explained that Web 2.0, along with what we've come to call the social media, is all about everything that enterprise companies are often not.
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Why does everyone claim their products are transformative? Cisco said its announcement of March 9th would transform the Internet. But it was just a big box. Apple transformed the Internet with a little box, the iPhone, and didn't say they were doing it. Now it's up to Verizon to bring it all together with LTE and broadband mobility.
A top Google executive says desktop computers will be irrelevant in three years. Alan Reiter suspects it won't be desktops that will be irrelevant (snicker).
Apple doesn't want you to get adult entertainment in a WiFi hotspot – at least not with an iPhone. Its adult apps are banned, and now it’s also nixed some hotspot-locating applications. The reasons are different, and they tell us something important about smartphone app stores.
