Monthly Archives: April 2013
Apple’s Siri Voice Clip Storage Policy Raises Privacy Concerns
Apple’s revelation to Wired that it stores for two years the voice clips for the questions that Siri users ask the automated assistant at...
Mini Windows 8 Tablets Are Months Away
Mini Windows 8 tablets are in the works, but it may be a while before it joins the Surface in retail.Coming off another round...
Kinsa Health IT Startup Launches Smart Thermometer for the iPhone
New York City health technology startup Kinsa Health has unveiled its Smart Thermometer and an iOS mobile app to allow users to connect personal...
Mobile Device Growth to Power Expansion of Home Networks: Gartner
Global mobile devices per household—outside of smartphones with a mobile data plan--will increase by more than 8 percent annually through 2016, while 60 million...
Google Maps Find History, Old Maps, Pinball Joints, Ships and Planes
Google Maps can take Website visitors to amazing places for adventures and exploration or to see beautiful places and cool possibilities around the world....
Mobile Devices, Apps Bite Into Navigation Device Sales
Growing smartphone adoption and broader availability of attractively priced location-based services are key factors for growing usage of mobile navigation apps, and the number...
Large Botnets Exploit Boston Marathon Bombing, Texas Factory Explosion
Spammers taking advantage of the attention garnered by the Boston Marathon bombing and the fertilizer plant explosion in Texas have reconfigured two major botnets...
Top-End DDoS Attack Bandwidth Surges Sevenfold: Report
The average size of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks jumped sevenfold in the first quarter of 2013, as attackers flooded networks with massive...
Yahoo’s Mayer Finally Addresses Controversial Policy Changes
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer used her April 19 keynote address at "Great Place to Work," a conference for human resources professionals and senior executives,...
HTC One Now Selling at AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Amazon and Beyond
The delayed HTC One smartphone is now available online and in retail stores at AT&T, Sprint, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Walmart, Target, Amazon, Costco,...