Monthly Archives: May 2013

Google Glass privacy: same questions, new territory

May 17, 2024 by Homa Zaryouni in Enterprise Tech, Personal Tech.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin (L) wearing Project Glass prototype glasses and Wendi Murdoch attend Allen & Company's Sun Valley Conference. Getty/ Kevork Djansezian

A group of congressmen wrote a letter to Google CEO Larry Page on Thursday asking him to show that Google Glass will not interfere with the privacy of users and bystanders.

Can Yahoo get its groove back with Tumblr?

May 17, 2024 by Juliana Kenny in Enterprise Tech.

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MUNICH, GERMANY - JANUARY 23: Founder of Tumblr David Karp speaks during the Digital Life Design conference (DLD) at HVB Forum on January 23, 2024 in Munich, Germany. DLD (Digital - Life - Design) is a global conference network on innovation, digital, science and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-formers and investors for crossover conversation and inspiration. (Photo by Nadine Rupp/Getty Images)

The rumored Yahoo-Tumblr deal could prove lucrative for both companies as talks escalate of a $1 billion acquisition.

WTPF closes: internet governance remains unclear

May 17, 2024 by Janice Yucel in Media Tech.

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This picture taken on April 30, 2024 in Geneva shows a 1992 copy of the world's first web page. The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today's Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said it had begun recreating the website that launched that World Wide Web, as well as the hardware that made the groundbreaking technology possible. British physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, also called W3 or just the Web, at CERN in 1989 to help physicists to share information, but at the time it was just one of several such information retrieval systems using the Internet. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)

The internet forum in Geneva closed with no real determinations made on the topic of web governance.

For Glass, a future without Google

May 16, 2024 by James Erik Abels in Media Tech, Personal Tech.

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Google engineer Ian McKellar wears Google Glass during the Google I/O developers conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. AFP/ Getty/ Justin Sullivan

A glimpse of the future of personal computing is flickering on the horizon.

Pinterest lookalike Luvocracy cuts to the chase

May 16, 2024 by Homa Zaryouni in Enterprise Tech, Media Tech.

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Luvocracy, the social recommendation and e-commerce site, raised $11 million in a round of venture capital on Thursday.

VMware and Verizon address BYOD for business

May 16, 2024 by Juliana Kenny in Enterprise Tech, Personal Tech.

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A sign hangs in the Verizon booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, in this January 8, 2024 file photo. Verizon Communications Inc posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on the performance of its wireless business, which reined in costs without slowing growth. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TELECOMS)

Software separating a user’s personal and professional data could change the landscape of the bring-your-own-device market.

Mobile payment bigs aiming at merchants, not consumers

May 15, 2024 by Homa Zaryouni in Enterprise Tech.

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The Square point of sale system. Reuters/ Square handout

Square, the mobile payment company co-founded by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, released on Tuesday a product aimed at replacing the traditional cash register.

Where small cells fit in the wireless equation

May 15, 2024 by Juliana Kenny in Enterprise Tech.

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A sign advertises Wi-Fi service in the Times Square Subway station in New York, April 25, 2013. The New York MTA has expanded service to 30 additional stations, including Times Square, Rockefeller Center and Columbus Circle. AT&T and T-Mobile signed 10-year contracts to provide cell and Wi-Fi service through a network being built by Transit Wireless. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS TRANSPORT)

Small cell deployment could change the face of the global wireless market.

If Apple is not enough for Sharp…

May 14, 2024 by Homa Zaryouni in Enterprise Tech, Personal Tech.

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A man passes before Sharp advertising at a store in Tokyo. Getty/ AFP/ Yoshikazu Tsuno

Sharp, the Japanese display maker revealed its much-needed (the company lost $5.4 billion in 2012) three-year turnaround plan on March 14.

Google’s search taken to court again

May 14, 2024 by Juliana Kenny in Media Tech.

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Google’s latest court case over its autocomplete search feature is likely to be another loss for the company’s position as mere purveyor of information others find unsavory.

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