I’ve been playing around with an Android Galaxy Nexus running ICS and have been overly impressed. The operating system is polished and has a intuitive workflow. Increasingly, I’ve been thinking about the utility of using a phone as a desktop (after watching the YouTube video below). It seems that the fantasy is now a reasonable [...]
“The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances.”
“At long last, the Holy Grail of Internet IPOs is here. Facebook filed Wednesday to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. In 2011, Facebook earned $1 billion on sales of $3.7 billion. As of December 31, Facebook had 845 million daily active users.”
“American Airlines told its unions Wednesday it plans to cut 13,000 jobs from the staff of 88,000 at the nation’s No. 3 airline.” (Source: American Airlines: We’ll have ‘many fewer’ jobs – Feb. 1, 2012.)
“In one of the U.S. government’s largest anti-piracy crackdowns ever, federal agents on Thursday arrested the leaders of and shut down Megaupload.com, a popular hub for illegal media downloads.”
” Eastman Kodak, the once mighty icon of the photography industry, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday.” (Source: Eastman Kodak files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection – Jan. 19, 2012.)
“Wikipedia was one of several websites that shut down at midnight in protest of anti-piracy bills that critics say could amount to censorship. Instead of the usual encyclopedia articles, visitors to Wikipedia were greeted by a message about the decision to black out its English-language Web page for an entire day. “
“Online retailer Zappos.com is asking its 24 million customers to reset their passwords after a cyberattack, according to a posting on the company’s website.”
While the current OnLive capability is severely limited, this could be the future of the desktop in some environments. The concept of BYOD (bring your own device) is being adopted in an increasing number of large enterprises. Technologies like this could eliminate the need for NAC and instead focus on developing a hardened client that [...]
@mtanji @fantom_planet The jokes write themselves at this point. Demonstrating incredible constraint on my end.
@MattDevost @Fantom_Planet There is a sticky keyboard joke in there somewhere, but I'm not going to mention it. well I know which one folks value more….betting YouPorn - “@mtanji: Experiment: Whose users have better passwords, Stratfor or YouPorn?”Copyright © 2009–2012