Category Archives: Technology

Steve Jobs Still Casts Long Shadow At Web Summit

As Published on http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/08/steve-jobs-still-casts-long-shadow-at-web-summit/ byRon Miller (@ron_miller) I spent this past week in Dublin at Web Summit, and I couldn’t help but notice, we are still fascinated, dare I say obsessed with the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs more than three … Continue reading

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See If Sites You Use Are Vulnerable to Heartbleed

A flaw in the most popular web encryption system could leave people vulnerable to data theft according to security researchers. That little padlock in the lower right corner of a browser window or the letters “https” in the address bar … Continue reading

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Microsoft Takes to the Front Lines in the War on Cybercrime

The global cost of cybercrime in 2013 was estimated by McAfee to be upwards of $300 billion. One in five small businesses have now been on the receiving end of an attack and every day one million more individuals become … Continue reading

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Facebook could fade out like a disease, math model says

Search query data for “Facebook” and “MySpace” obtained from Google Trends overlaid on top of each other. Facebook is like an infectious disease, experiencing a spike before its decline, according to US researchers who claim the social network will lose … Continue reading

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Your Data Gets Lost Or Stolen Online Frequently. Do You Even Care?

2013 was filled with even more large service providers, government departments and enterprises getting hacked or otherwise loosing your data. Your data was likely lost on multiple occasions just from the breaches in the news, let alone the ones that … Continue reading

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Hackers Are Attacking Millions Of Computers And Demanding Ransom In Bitcoins

Before you mail holiday gifts to faraway friends and relatives, back up your most important computer files. There’s a scary new computer virus called CryptoLocker that was spreading like crazy in the U.K. last month and is now crossing over … Continue reading

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The biggest hindrance to corporate growth

IT departments are “the biggest hindrance to corporate growth”, and they need to learn from the “shadow IT” workaround of other divisions bringing SaaS solutions in directly. That’s what David Linthicum, the curator of Gigaom Research’s cloud coverage, sees in … Continue reading

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London Gets Its Own Internet Domain

Special Thanks to Karishma Sinha London will shortly be one of Europe’s first cities to get its own top level domain after .london was approved by the Internet’s naming body. Dot London & Partners, a government-funded promotional group that will … Continue reading

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Is The Internet Domain Land Rush A Land Rush At All?

There’s a land rush going on right now. At least that’s how everyone seems to be describing the with so-called top-level domains. Pretty soon, there’s going to be a lot more than .coms out there, and a lot of big … Continue reading

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Past and Present Apple Newton & IPad

I am a proud owner of Apple Newton MessagePad Handheld computers were still largely the stuff of science fiction, way back in the year 1993, when I had the opportunity to own Apple Newton (OMP or Original MessagePad) running Apple … Continue reading

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