Tuesday, April 20, 2010
This subject was a recent headline on the WSJ. We are just sharing this headline and do not take a particular opinion on the matter.
According to a recent report, the Justice Department is stepping up its investigation into hiring practices at some of America's biggest companies, including Google...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
From the Wall Street Journal. Here is one indicator of the allure of Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial culture: Diane Keng just launched her third start-up -- and she is still in high school.
In March, the 18-year-old launched Internet company MyWeboo.com to help teens manage their digital lives a...
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Internet privacy is a hot topic but our government is doing a great job of keeping it under wraps. Government intervention in internet privacy can have global repercussions. This won't be pretty! Online regulation will violate our privacy and our rights... and the government will do it in the name o...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Some of you may not even know what a Femtocell is. Let me explain and explain why this is significant.
At first that may seem like a huge deal but there are currently around 256,000 cellular towers in the US compared to femtocells which now number at about 350,000. These femtocells are called diffe...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Google has bid $900 million for the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks, the Canadian telecom equipment maker, as part of a strategy to defend itself against patent litigation. The bid, which could grow even larger in Nortel's bankruptcy auction, would be the third-largest purchase by Google, smalle...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Like it or not, social networking is here to stay and is getting further ingrained in your lives. I'm seeing more instances where people are negatively affected by their posts on sites like Facebook. Facebook was one of the safe havens (my opinion) on the internet where we can express our thoughts t...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
This is interesting. Before Steve Jobs was with Apple, he worked at Atari and was assigned to design a prototype for for a single player Pong game called Breakout. Breakout was a game where you had to use a ball to deplete a wall of bricks without missing the ball on its rebound. Sound familiar? Of...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Who doesn't have a cell phone nowadays? Just about everybody and their kids have one. Our cell phones say a lot about us and we have multiple companies and organizations tracking our usage and location data. And yes, you gave consent to this when you signed up for an account or when you bought your...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Do we have the Right to be Forgotten? The internet has made the world a much smaller and more connected planet. Google has been around for 15 years and they have made the subject of Privacy Rights an interesting one. As consumers we must also be careful of regulation as regulation goes both ways. A...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
I'm really on the fence with this and it seems like regulators already know where they want to take this. Are you aware of the consequences this has? Keep an eye for this as so called "regulators" always try to reach for more than they should at our expense and to somebody's gain.
When it comes to p...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Careful folks... While Washington appears to be addressing voter sentiment. We need to see both sides of the coin. What rights are we giving up this time??
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US lawmakers announced plans on Friday to introduce "Do Not Track" legislation that would let Internet users block companies from gatheri...