While there has been a lot of speculation about just how much technology companies were contributing to government surveillance as part of PRISM, Microsoft has denied any real violations for customers. For awhile they even denied having knowledge that the program existed. But now details have emerged thanks to secret […]
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Microsoft’s reorganisation will enable innovation and focus on devices and services
Most tech companies that go beyond the startup phase will begin to break off into departments that have their own mission statement. When a company gets as big as Microsoft, you will have dozens of departments with an even larger number of strategies as they work on their own projects. […]
MIT tool shows why metadata is really a big deal
Meta-data contains a great deal of information, and when gathered together it forms a startlingly clear picture of the person it comes from. A point that Professor César Hidalgo and graduate students Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish of MIT are trying to get across. They have created a new program called Immersion. It […]
Dell wants to invest in wearable computing
Wearable computing has been a dream of technology companies for a long time, and many incarnations have been introduced over the years. From the early days of the Virtual Boy gaming system, to today’s full system Google Glass, it is the holy grail in a time of a struggling PC […]
What to expect from Microsoft Build 2013 Conference
Last year Microsoft’s Build 2012 Conference led to the announcement of the Surface tablets and details about their new Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. With Build 2013 coming, rumors are swirling like crazy about what might be on the horizon. While we can’t know for sure what they are […]
A quick explanation of GCHQ and their Internet Surveillance
Since the story of how government agencies have been tracking information through major sources of technology came out, privacy has become a major issue on the web. While the entire world has been in a frenzy, the United States and United Kingdom, the two regions most affected, have been especially […]
Samsung Ativ Q hybrid tablet was made official
Samsung unveiled today during the press event from London another hybrid device called Ativ Q. The Samsung Ativ Q device is the latest in a series of combination releases that have been big on the market this summer. Taking advantage of consumer needs for portability, they also allow you to buy a single […]
