With Google Glass adding prescription frames and insurance coverage to their ‘hardware’ how soon is it before: a) they’re widely released; and, b) they become this generation’s Ray-Bans? Alternatively, will they (however unlikely) be a bust?
(Source) Latin Post: http://goo.gl/vvU3DF
Wouldn’t it have been interesting to have been a ‘fly-on-the-wall’ during the forthright negotiations between the White House and America’s leading Tech Giants regarding NSA-related Cloud surveillance? In light of the damning Snowden allegations / disclosures an agreement is one thing whereas compliance is quite another!
(Source) Ars Technica: http://goo.gl/gZ00yT
Google and Samsung have reportedly agreed to cooperate vs. sue each other on a wide-range of patents… which in corporate-speak in all probability means: let’s use our collective forces in an attempt to take down our biggest rival.
(Source) NY Times: http://goo.gl/psLJJc
Google’s patent of ‘ad-tech’ linking a restaurant discount with a free taxi-ride could be the next significant step for location-based search becoming more ubiquitous (as well as jump-starting NFC towards getting commercial / consumer acceptance and application).
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/DVhaZt
30 years ago today – Mac was unveiled… and, the world was forever changed!
(Source) Register UK: http://goo.gl/oT5Skd
A bug discovered in Chrome – yet to be patched – for a browser with roughly 15% of total marketshare presently allows for electronic-eavesdropping of conversations – even when not using a / the / your computer!
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/oIODBx
With all the attention Omaha has garnered (thanks to Peyton Manning) perhaps Cheyenne was jealous (and, taking matters to an extreme via rerouting the China’s ‘net traffic to said city?) Where next, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan?
(Source) IBT: http://goo.gl/xHu3b7
‘123456‘ has overtaken ‘password‘ as the worst online password… While it may seem hard to believe it’s true that these are two of the most common (password) examples – globally no less!
(Source) Sydney Morning Herald: http://goo.gl/JFTfX7
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ – MLK.
No, it’s not Space for those Trekkies… it is the hacking of smart-appliances… The world’s first smart-applicance hacking of a refrigerator has been reported. What’s next? Coffee-maker and/or (wake-up) alarm-setting sabotage (please, copycats do not credit this blog as an inspiration and/or reference!)
(Source) Latin Post: http://goo.gl/vxs2FJ
