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We can’t live without the internet, it can’t live without us
"We have a symbiotic relationship with the internet, we cannot live without it and I am pretty sure if it could think, the internet could not imagine existence without users," says Yasushi Okamura, Global client director at Oracle.Okamura, who was addressing the audience at the Korea Communications Conference, suggests that human beings have undergone a symbiosis with the internet that has enabled both parties to evolve greatly in the last 25+ years."We have evolved and adapted the internet into ...Privacy vs Social: Cool solutions to help you cope
I've been advocating a stronger approach to privacy for some time now. My biggest concern is that we share so much private information using social media, that identity theft and other security issues are only just beginning to become apparent. Aside from this, we are caught between the need to take advantage of the social networks that the majority of our peers share and simply giving in to the terms and conditions that come as part and parcel of these ...What Scott Thompson’s fake CV teaches us about tech’s engineering cult
The discovery that Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson has been claiming to have a Computer Science degree for years, and did not correct statements that identified him as an "engineer" is not surprising given the strong "cult of the engineer" that is prevalent in Silicon Valley.According to Kara Swisher at All Things D, Thompson did not deny he had a computer science degree in a 2009 interview:Moira Gunn asked him a direct question about his college degrees, specifically noting they ...What is CISPA and why should we care? [Infographic]
It seems like the US government is just spending its time drawing up laws that cause online controversy. There was the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), and now there is another **PA floating around in the form of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).CISPA is essentially trying to guard against cyberthreats by encouraging the sharing of information, but some critics argue its definitions are too vague. Some say that it could turn ...Women in tech: Leading the geek world one stiletto at a time
It seems no matter how much society evolves, women are always left just that little bit behind. No, this is not an article about gender equality -- this is a tech site for crying out loud. As Google's Marissa Mayer recently wrote about IBM CEO Virginia Rometty for her inclusion in TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of 2012, "women in the workplace and women in technology will be key drivers of global competitiveness and innovation in the future."Interestingly, ...Intel’s Ivy Bridge: Naming the Tri-Gate transistors
What's in a name? Not much if you're talking about the codename for the world's first 22-nanometer processors that use Intel's leading edge Tri-Gate transistors.Groundbreaking as the "Ivy Bridge" chips may be, their codename isn't, according to the man who came up with the initial moniker for Intel's next Core processor family. Ivy Bridge is the internal codename for Intel's third-generation Core processors, the first of which will be unveiled in April."You might think there's a lot of meaning behind ...Low Orbit Server Stations: Is The Pirate Bay trolling, or could it work?
Trolling, probably. You've heard The Pirate Bay's annoucement that it will be experimenting with low orbit server drones to make its service impervious to Hollywood’s threats. Oft-facetious, it wouldn't surprise us if The Pirate Bay were just scaremongering, but could it actually work?Maybe, but putting such an idea into practice is still a ways off. The world record for a battery powered hover drone in laboratory conditions is currently held by the md4-1000 hover drone which managed to hover for ...Most of your website’s traffic doesn’t come from humans
You work hard on your your website right? You enjoy every spike in traffic like it was the first. After all, it must mean people are enjoying the content on your site.That's true for the traffic you can see. It turns out, however, the majority of visits to your site don't actually show up because they don't come from humans.Incapsula, a provider of cloud-based security for web sites, released a study today showing that 51% of website traffic is automated ...Privacy? Why you should actually be concerned about being tracked online
Hilton Tarrant recently wrote a piece on Memeburn entitled, "Privacy? Why you should let Google, Facebook and others track you online". I had a few issues with the piece.My feeling is that he's uninformed on the matter, made bad assumptions owing to a technical error and decided to ignore some legal complexity, then presented us with a false-dichotomy between ugly display ads and personalised advertising. Let's pick these apart one at a time.UninformedIn general, Hilton makes a common error when ...Can ultrabooks halt the ‘post PC world’ onslaught?
At Apple’s iPad launch event CEO Tim Cook waxed lyrical about being in a post PC world. The overarching message seemed to be “tablets are the way forward”, even though the message was Apple was trying to convey was more along the lines of "our tablet is the way forward".But are we actually living in a post PC world, in which tablets are rapidly becoming the computing device of choice?The latest stats from tech research company Gartner would ...
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