The FBI is currently in the process of trying to amend the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to cover Web companies as well as telecommunications providers. The bureau is hoping to work with companies including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Facebook in order to incorporate backdoors for wiretapping their services.
With Facebook’s IPO expected to take place tomorrow, there are a lot of mixed opinions about the investment potential of the company. Many analysts have raised concerns over the social giant’s long-term sustainability given its revenue model, mobile strategy, and Mark Zuckerberg’s own leadership.
IBM recently unveiled multiple new software systems geared toward enterprises. As Paul Brunet, the Vice President of IBM Application and Integration Middleware, explained to WebProNews, these tools cater to the current trends including mobile, cloud, and social technologies.
If you like to make things and are the least bit tech savvy, you’re likely going to fall in love with the new lifestyle brand Brit. The brand is the brainchild of Brit Morin, who was formerly employed by both Apple and Google.
The debate surrounding mobile privacy is really heating up as smartphones become more ubiquitous. Consumers are growing dependent on their mobile devices, and are taking advantage of the hundreds of thousands of apps that are available to them. The problem, however, comes into play when they realize how much of their data these apps have.
At the Ad Age Digital Conference recently, Google announced some significant changes to the way online advertising is measured. Google introduced the Brand Activate Initiative that is designed to grow the online advertising industry by applying metrics similar to those used in television.
Apple has long been paraded as the security maven when compared to Microsoft. However, it looks like this reputation might be changing. Recent reports from security firm Kaspersky Lab have found that malware on the Apple platform is growing. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe 2012 event, Eugene Kaspersky, the firm’s CEO and co-founder, even said that Apple was “10 years behind Microsoft in terms of security.”
Since data caps are often associated with restrictions, most people immediately scowl when they hear any reference to them. Several public interest groups, including Public Knowledge and Free Press, have even called on Congress and the FCC to investigate them. These groups believe they threaten the open Internet and that they are harmful to online video services.
A new website called Miss Travel is gaining quite a bit of attention, but not necessarily in a good way. Miss Travel launched last month as a dating site geared toward travelers. The way that the site combines these two elements, however, is the reason it is causing controversy.
The historic decision from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to open the top-level domain market has received a lot of criticism ever since its announcement last year. Recent developments, however, are bringing even more concerns to table about the stability of the program.
The tech industry has hit Wall Street hard in the past couple of years with several IPOs. The trend is continuing as Facebook, the world’s largest social network, is expected to complete its initial public offering very soon.
How would you like to have a Facebook News Feed for all the news and information you consume? A new startup that just launched into public beta aims to do just this. The company is called Wavii and takes the concept of news aggregation to a new level.
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