“It doesn’t get much better than their bringing us a picture of the guy actually using the stolen property,” Daniel Jackson, the deputy commissioner of public safety in White Plains, told the newspaper. “It certainly made our job easier.”
The Back to My Mac feature, which runs on Leopard-based Macintoshes, requires a $99 subscription to the [...]
Even anonymized data can be revealing, though, as AOL found after it released search data to researchers. Although names had been removed, search data revealed enough to identify some people, and AOL’s chief technology officer and two others lost their jobs after the matter.
One big issue for such program is privacy. Here’s what Raskin shared [...]
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To create your own message view, click Customize in the View drop-down menu, and choose New in the Customize Message Views dialog box, or select one of the existing views and click Edit. In the Message View Setup window, choose either “Match all of the following” or “Match any of the following,” and make [...]
“There’s lots of discussion on how Web 2.0, Ajax and open-source products will make the client OS unimportant and unseat Microsoft as the dominant desktop software vendor. Some even insist that the client OS already doesn’t matter. The client OS may be less important today than it was 10 years ago, but that’s a more-accurate [...]
Targeted advertising is an extremely sensitive subject, with privacy advocates on both the left and right ends of the political spectrum voicing concerns. Internet service providers have been criticized for behavioral-targeting campaigns, questions of legality continue to arise, and top executives at tech companies have been brought into the debate.
eMarketer cited a TrustE study which [...]
In May, HP announced it would buy EDS for $25 per share, or $13.9 billion. Under the deal, EDS will operate as a new business unit (called EDS) and will continue to be led by Ronald A. Rittenmeyer, its current chief executive officer. The EDS buy will pit HP squarely against IBM and make it [...]
Which are the companies to watch in clean tech? Most are definitely not household names but they are having an impact.
A trial balloon or the face of solar power in the future?
3. Southwest Wind Power. There are several companies taking different approaches to small wind turbines, designed for homes and buildings. Southwest Wind Power [...]
Wallace has previously been sued by the Federal Trade Commission and companies such as AOL and Concentric Network. In May 2006, Wallace and his company Smartbot.net were ordered by a federal court to turn over $4.1 million.
In March of last year, MySpace filed suit against Wallace, alleging he launched a phishing scam to fraudulently access [...]
“Due to the tremendous coverage and initial success of this product we’re now in a two-week backorder situation,” said Tim Twerdahl, Roku’s vice president of consumer products. “We have boats coming in weekly from China with additional products, and we’re doing everything we can to get them out.”
Start-up Roku, the company behind the device [...]
“I’m asking you to get mad,” Stringer said, according to the Journal report.
Anger-passion, combined with energy, innovation, imagination, and bold steps, is the ticket to get Sony back on track as it sets out its next three-year growth plan, Stringer is cited as having told the company’s staff of more than 1,000 managers during a [...]