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Uber Staff Still Stalking Customers, Claims Suit

The controversy over Uber staff using the company's tech to track people's movements was reignited this week when information in a pending lawsuit began circulating in the tech press. Uber employees can pull customer data at will, alleged Ward Spangenberg, the company's former forensic investigato...

Google Patents Tech to Limit Injuries in Vehicle-Pedestrian Accidents

The United States Patent and Trademark Office earlier this week granted Google a patent for "Adhesive Vehicle Front End For Mitigation of Secondary Pedestrian Impact." The patent application, filed a year and a half ago, credits Google employees Alex Khaykin and Daniel Lynn Larner as the inventors o...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Cyberwarrior Demand Outpaces Supply

Demand for cybersecurity professionals continues to far outpace supply, according to a Burning Glass Technologies report released last week. Cybersecurity hiring remains concentrated in government agencies and among defense contractors, the third annual cybersecurity job market report notes, but hir...

Take a Nano Pill and Call Google in the Morning?

Google is in the early stages of developing a nanoparticle-covered pill to detect cancer and other serious health problems such as heart disease, according to Andrew Conrad, head of the life sciences team at Google X, who revealed the project last week. The pill would work in tandem with a wearable ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

‘Hacker Madness’ Strikes Idaho Judge

A federal judge in Idaho appears to have had a fit of hacker madness. In a case involving a former employee and his bosses over software for protecting the nation's critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, federal district court Judge B. Lynn Winmill found the employee's privacy rights could be ig...

ACTA Runs Out of Gas in Europe

Even though it has been signed by 22 of the European Union's 27 members, ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is unlikely to be ratified by the EU, according to The Guardian. ACTA had gained favor among lawmakers looking to harmonize copyright enforcement around the globe, but a series of ...

DARPA Builds Cyberwarfare Proving Ground

News of two cybersecurity efforts undertaken by the United States government surfaced Friday. One is the Defense Industrial Base Cyber Pilot, in which the U.S. Department of Defense, partnering with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will share classified threat information and the knowledge ...

CONFERENCE REPORT

Web 2.0: The Useful, the Viral and the Just Plain Strange

It was a generally interesting day of keynote speeches at the Web 2.0 conference Wednesday, although a couple of the presentations were real mind-benders. One keynote laid out how developers can use core concepts of gaming apps to create better products. Others dealt with creating infectious action,...

OPINION

An Open Letter to Apple and AT&T Boards of Directors

Right now there are potentially 1000s of ticking time bombs. ... All it will take is one 13-year-old (like the child who downloaded your 1 billionth application) who learns from his iPhone the way to quiet his 6-week-old sister is by shaking her as hard and as fast as he can and completely altering ...

Google Offers Virtual Filing Cabinet for Health Records

Google launched the beta version of its Google Health personal health records aggregator Monday. The service, according to Google, will put users in control of their own medical records, giving them 24-hour-a-day access to their health records from a variety of sources. With the introduction of Goog...

Who’s Watching You at Work?

When they put in long hours, workers sometimes begin to see their workplaces as something of a second home. They decorate the walls of their cubicles or offices with pictures of loved ones, plants and an assortment of personal memorabilia. No matter what their professional level, when someone's spen...

Every Click You Make, Your Boss Is Watching You

Employees who regularly use company computers to surf the Web, sign on to business accounts for personal e-mail, make calls from company phones or use the corporate car to run errands run the risk of losing their jobs, according to a new survey released by The ePolicy Institute and the American Mana...

DTV Deadline Driving Growth of Pay-Per-View Content

Unlimited, uncensored access to video featuring Howard Stern may or may not be the epitome of the new era of digital television. Nevertheless the pay television service "Howard TV" and similar offerings are emerging rapidly as the government's deadline requiring conversion from analog to digital TV ...

The Future of E-Mail Archiving

The past two years have seen several high-profile corporate scandals that illustrate the dramatic consequences of e-mail misuse -- and those are just the ones that have made headlines. In fact, one in five employers has had an e-mail subpoenaed by courts and regulators, and another 13 percent have b...

Industry Players Poised for VoIP Battle

Telecom and cable giants are moving quickly to keep up with innovations and opportunities surrounding Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), one of the latest technology trends to draw aggressive strategies from companies such as AT&T and Verizon. As the larger, more traditional telecom and cable ...

Sun Appoints New Software Boss

A slew of new senior appointments at Sun Microsystems comes as confidence in the recovery of the U.S. economy and technology industry is growing. Santa Clara, California-based Sun last week named Jonathan Schwartz as its new chief operating officer, and on Monday announced that John Loiacono has bee...

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