Coming Up For Air?

After 2 years and $2 billion in losses (a fairly standard move by Redmond) Microsoft’s Surface has finally turned a profit. The question now is: is this a sustainable trend and/or a pre-Christmas holiday blip?

(Source) Computer World: http://goo.gl/lhSv5o

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Inexcusable!

As the Gamer-gate controversy continues, the ultimate tragedy seems to be three-fold: 1) the inexcusable attacks on women; 2) the silence of the major Gaming companies; and, 3) the reflection on contemporary society whereas the old adage is still unfortunately true: the more things change the more they stay the same. Pathetic seems too weak of a word to use here…

(Source) Forbes: http://goo.gl/MlKusR

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Anti-Facebook…

Social Networking meets non-data mining minus online ads is perhaps one way to describe ‘Ello.’ Launched in August the (nascent) platform already boasts a million users (with 3 million waiting to join) and $5.5 million dollars of VC-backing.

(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/dks9XB

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Battling Inside Out.

Believe it or not, there is actually one (US) Senator that is pro-privacy as well as in favor of repelling one of the more draconian / Orwellian aspects of the post-9/11, Patriot Act… (which, arguably, had little to do with what ‘patriotism’ means in both the letter as well as the spirit of the term itself!) Let’s hope that their efforts are not just successful but supported by other voices of reason (if there is said orientation remaining in Washington, DC)…

(Source) Wired: http://goo.gl/KQUqCT

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iPRC Hack?

After a few months of what was at least non-news regarding potential Chinese governmental hacking, it looks as though with the launch of iPhone 6 in the PRC that might have changed…

(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/dXLWDi

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Plug Pulled.

Anonabox, a Tor-enabled, router that raised more than 1/2 million dollars (not without controversy) was pulled by Kickstarter due to a number of concerns ranging from authenticity to security…

(Source) Ars Technica: http://goo.gl/kwep0g

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Minecraft City Limits.

After two years, Titan City (a virtual city within said game) has been built… will they come?

(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/bGeqP0

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Yosemite.

Despite some recent missteps (i.e., a bendable smartphone that was in all probability missed / unintended when prototyping) Apple’s latest OS X Yosemite has a chance to both change the way people work (as well as crack the coveted Enterprise space that the firm lacks traction within overall).

(Source) Venture Beat: http://goo.gl/2ArLtJ

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FAIL!

The still flawed (yet still in-effect) DMCA struck again as the ‘victims’ this time were non-DMCA-related, bloggers / videos that were essentially taken-down akin to how snare-net fishing can potentially capture everything in one fell-swoon.

(Source) Wired: http://goo.gl/qQndNE

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Proof-of-Concept Worms…

One has to wonder if this is every cyber-thugs dream?

(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/brfYrt

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