Apple: Rags To Riches To Rags To Riches And Now Heading Back To Rags Again | Mac360
Yet, here we are, moving quickly into the 21st century and the most profitable technology company on the planet, the one with the most customers, the one with the most money in the bank, the one that disrupts industry after industry, is still around. Yet oh so doomed.
Name one competitor that wouldn’t prefer to be doomed the way Apple appears to be doomed.
Jon Stewart launches $10 billion 'Kickstarter' to buy CNN
"You didn't know that the Daily Show host wants to buy CNN? Neither did anyone else, until he announced last night that he's launching LetsBuyCNN.com, a kick-starter that isn't on Kickstarter.
The site, which currently seems to be somewhat overloaded, offers this explanation: "CNN, America's first 24-hour cable news network, has been terrible for many, many years. Does it have to be that way? Who knows, maybe it does. So let's find out for ourselves!"
Google Now tops Siri at accuracy, says analyst - CNET
"Both voice assistants have improved since last year, says analyst Gene Munster. But in a new contest, Google Now scores slightly higher than its rival from Apple."
Apple Working With Intelligent Energy For Better Batteries
"Apple is rumored to be working with Intelligent Energy, a fuel-cell firm that could enable Apple's devices to last "days or even weeks," according to a Daily Mail report.
Consumer technology is a major facet of Intelligent Energy's business. "Our technology can be sized to suit your requirements and designed to power anything from a laptop to a mobile phone," says one of its websites."
NSA likely targets anybody who's 'Tor-curious'
"An analysis of X-Keyscore's source code (text only) indicates that the program has targeted a German student who runs a Tor node, and can add to the NSA's surveillance lists anybody who uses popular Internet privacy tools such as Tor. The reports were prepared by reporters for the German public television broadcasters NDR and WDR, and people employed by and volunteering for Tor, who said that "former NSA employees and experts are convinced that the same code or similar code is still in use today."
Primarily funded by the US government, the Tor network anonymizes Internet traffic by relaying the communication through a series of encrypted, anonymizing hubs called nodes. It's often used by reporters and activists, and it was estimated in 2012 that 50,000 to 60,000 Iranians use the service daily.
Tails is a variant of the Linux operating system that can be launched from a USB key and comes with Tor and other common tools pre-configured with privacy settings. Each time it boots, it automatically wipes everything that isn't saved elsewhere. Tails is described in the X-Keyscore source code as, "a comsec mechanism advocated by extremists on extremist forums."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation cautioned people to not abandon the services just because the NSA was spying on them.
"The more ordinary people use Tor and Tails, the harder it is for the NSA to make the case that reading about or using these tools is de facto suspicious," wrote EFF staffers."
Microsoft Surface Pro 3 hands on: The tablet to end all tablets? - Tech Review - Digital Spy
I, am an Apple and Android guy but I played with the new Surface 3 today at Best Buy and Microsoft nailed it with this one. This is a fabulous device. It has all of the essential tablet and ultra book functions in a thing to device it a very good keyboard. The screen is excellent, better the next HD in a twelve inch device. Microsoft is a player once again. John H. Armwood
