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Are You On Facebook?
No, and here are some of the reasons why. Pre-Facebook, and before the advent of MySpace people began to register a personal URL. Concurrent to Facebook’s early General Public availability another option arose (known as LinkedIn). Then, as a Silicon … Continue reading
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Tagged Data, Facebook, LinkedIn, Nefarious, Social Networking, Twitter
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Project Fi.
For the sake of genuine competition, let’s hope that Google’s Project Fi (Wireless Service) shakes-up America’s (essentially) Telecommunications duopoly!
Steal This!
Two researchers have reportedly discovered a way to capture identification data for Samsung’s S5 fingerprint recognition software via hacking the handsets’ memory… just another day in the never-ending saga of ‘the-more-humanity-becomes-tech-dependent-the-greater-the-level-of-hacking-possibilities.’
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Tagged Android, Blogski, Fingerprint, Fingerprints, Google, Hacking, ID, S5, Samsung, Technology
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Inside Abbey Road.
Google’s latest launch demonstrates once again how powerful technology is towards making borders transparent… Inside Abbey Road: http://goo.gl/fPBni3
Purged!
Google’s purge of 200 bad (i.e., ads / malware, etc.) Chrome-extensions raises at least one question – what took the firm so long to act?
Wiped Clean?
Revealed by a Russian and rewarded $5K by Google (for reporting this YouTube software flaw allowing any uploaded videoclip to be deleted within 30 seconds) who says that being honest does not pay?
It’s Time.
Count Tag Heuer as the latest to join the burgeoning wearable technology watch market.
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Tagged Android, Blogski, Google, Intel, Tag Heuer, Technology, Wearables
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Breathtaking!
Way to go Google (Street View) for incorporating immersive-photos of Greenland into this service…
YouTube Kids!
Let’s hope that Monday’s planned rollout is a great success (and not the troll-fest that YouTube itself has far too often devolved into being!)
The ‘Digital’ Dark Age?
Akin to how NASA mistakenly allowed their Apollo Space Mission data to not be read (due to hardware / software obsolescence) Vint Cerf (an ‘net pioneer) has raised concerns of a parallel event for today’s data.