The Secret Power Of Black Twitter - BuzzFeed Mobile

Last night Black Twitter killed a George Zimmerman trial juror’s book deal. But that’s not a surprise: The hive has become a swarm. It’s diffuse, powerful, and all around you.

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Microsoft beware: Google Chromebooks could surge

Chromebook shipments could spike in the second half of the year. That's not good news for Microsoft, which is seeing falling laptop deliveries.

Microsoft beware: Google Chromebooks could surge

Yahoo wins motion to have FISA court objections to surveillance made public

Yahoo wins motion to have FISA court objections to surveillance made public

Can Facebook Predict Suicide Risks?

Can Facebook Predict Suicide Risks?

Apple and Google having ‘lots and lots’ of meetings, getting along better, says Eric Schmidt

How Acceptable Was Anonymous Speculation About Snowden's Laptops?

It’s the story that just won’t quit: The tale of Edward J. Snowden and his leak of classified information about the United States government’s secret surveillance of citizens.

Rife with skirmishes and subplots, overflowing with schadenfreude, one-upsmanship and bruised egos, it’s also a matter of extraordinary national and global importance.

One of the latest developments is the question of whether Mr. Snowden – as was suggested in a Times article on June 24 – may have unwittingly provided classified information to China.

The Times article, the essence of which looked at the reasons that China allowed Mr. Snowden to leave Hong Kong, included this sentence about two-thirds of the way down: “Two Western intelligence experts, who worked for major government spy agencies, said that they believed that the Chinese government had managed to drain the contents of the four laptops that Mr. Snowden said he brought to Hong Kong, and that he said were with him during his stay at a Hong Kong hotel.”

Mr. Snowden denied that his laptops were compromised by the Chinese (or the Russians): “I never gave any information to either government and they never took anything from my laptops,” he said in an interview with Glenn Greenwald, the columnist for The Guardian who broke much of the biggest news over the past month as a chief recipient of Mr. Snowden’s information.

In that piece, Mr. Greenwald took The Times to task for printing that “incendiary” speculation.

How Acceptable Was Anonymous Speculation About Snowden's Laptops?

Report: Microsoft Helped the NSA Spy on Hotmail, Skype and Outlook

Report: Microsoft Helped the NSA Spy on Hotmail, Skype and Outlook

NSA docs boast: Now we can wiretap Skype video calls. Where are the warrants? What about the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

The Bush and now the Obama administration have shredded the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution    secretly.   But for Snowden we would not know about us.  He has done the American people a great service.  He may of done some harm.  We do not know that yet.  What we do know is that we cannot trust our government to abide by our constitution.

John H. Armwood


NSA docs boast: Now we can wiretap Skype video calls

Another Amazon victim -- this time it's Barnes & Noble's CEO

Barnes & Noble Chief Executive William Lynch has resigned, following the bookseller's long fight for a Nook tablet that rivals Amazon's Kindle.

It marks the departure of a tech-focused executive who rose to the company's helm from its online business, and puts more authority in the hands of Leonard Riggio, Barnes & Noble's chairman and biggest shareholder.

Through a wave of acquisitions, Riggio built the chain into the country's biggest bookseller, but the company has struggled to find its bearing as Amazon first undermined its traditional book business and then outgunned it on reading devices.

Microsoft will reportedly unveil major restructuring Thursday

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is expected to unveil a dramatic and long-awaited restructuring at the tech titan as early as Thursday, according to AllThingsD.

Ballmer is likely to realign the company around services (software) and devices, in both the consumer and business sectors. The CEO might have already laid the groundwork for that transition last year when he wrote a note to shareholders declaring that "this is really a new era for our company.

Is the long wait for the next Nexus 7 finally winding down?

It's been a year since Google debuted the Nexus 7, the first small Android tablet that actually represented a great value at as little as $199, and the wait for a successor with some much-needed upgrades is quickly rising to the top of my list of first-world problems.

Is the long wait for the next Nexus 7 finally winding down?

EU increases penalties for cybercriminals and hackers - Looking to deter cyberattacks on national infrastructure and halt the illegal interception of communications, the European Union toughens its laws.

EU increases penalties for cybercriminals and hackers

Major Android Flaw Leaves 99% Of Devices Vulnerable To Malware - Cult of Android

Major Android Flaw Leaves 99% Of Devices Vulnerable To Malware - Cult of Android

Yahoo, Facebook, Google and eBay weigh in on Singapore's online censorship law

Since then, Facebook, Google, eBay and Yahoo (which was affected by the new scheme), have sent collectively sent a letter to the Minister of Communications and Information via the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC).

The AIC was formed by these four companies in order to "promote the understanding and resolution of Internet policy issues in the Asia Pacific region".

The letter says that the new regulation could "unintentionally hamper Singapore’s ability to continue to drive innovation" in the country's aim to establish itself as a cloud computing and data analytics hub in the region, as well as calling the regulation "unwarranted and excessive" as well as "ambiguous and onerous".

Yahoo, Facebook, Google and eBay weigh in on Singapore's online censorship law

Apple’s victory is complete – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

Remembrance of Everything Past - IEEE Spectrum

The pursuit of enhanced cognition—from sharper recall to more lucid reasoning—is now the greatest animating impulse behind innovative computer engineering. Across the world, clever designers are leveraging ever-expanding storage, processing power, and communications networks to build personalized encyclopedias that document all aspects of an individual’s inner and outer lives. If the engineers have their way, every idea, memory, and feeling—the recorded consciousness of a single lifetime—will be stored in the cloud

Remembrance of Everything Past - IEEE Spectrum

The digital demo - “SOCIAL media are the worst menace to society,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, on June 2nd. Such fears delight dissenters. Protesters’ placards in Brazil goad the authorities with slogans such as “We come from Facebook”.

Enthusiasts called protesters in Egypt, Iran, Moldova and Tunisia “Twitter revolutionaries”. That was premature: much of the social-media content supporting the pro-democracy cause came from supporters abroad. But protests in Turkey and Brazil, where digital media are especially popular, do show how technology can muster, manage and amplify demonstrations. Zeynep Tufekci of Princeton University interviewed scores of Turkish protesters. Most cited social media as a spur.

The digital demo

Can Apple survive 2013? You know because, well… Android? – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

“Given the recent implosions of BlackBerry, Palm, Nokia, Microsoft, can we safely assume that Apple is next and will likely fail before the year is out, simply because, well… Android?” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider.

Read more at http://macdailynews.com/2013/06/30/can-apple-survive-2013-you-know-because-well-android/#g1vM2ZTrhfhrS12W.99 

Can Apple survive 2013? You know because, well… Android? – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home