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The Next Mobile Frontier: The 'iCar'?

Joseph Farrell | Posted 06.17.2013 | Technology
Joseph Farrell

Last week, the newest frontier in mobility and application development dawned: the "iCar." During its annual World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC), Apple announced plans to bring the iOS experience in 2014 to at least 12 different car markers.

Gerry Smith

Major Smartphone Maker Promises Anti-Theft Feature As Prosecutor Imposes 'Kill Switch' Deadline

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 06.14.2013 | Technology

Samsung on Thursday promised to swiftly add a new feature to its smartphones allowing owners to entirely deactivate their devices if they are stolen, ...

Gerry Smith

Prosecutors Probe Smartphone Makers' Failure To Deter Thefts

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 06.13.2013 | Technology

Top state and city law enforcement officials on Thursday will announce an expansive investigation into the failure of Apple and other smartphone manuf...

Gerry Smith

The Not-So-Secret Technology Behind The NSA Spying Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 06.12.2013 | Technology

Even within the infrastructure of the American surveillance apparatus, the National Security Agency is notoriously secretive. The spy agency jealously...

How Flickr Redesign Leaves Out the Photographers

Michael Stutz | Posted 06.08.2013 | Technology
Michael Stutz

My favorite social network vaporized overnight. It just disappeared. No, I'm not talking about MySpace -- I'm talking about what recently happened to Flickr, the photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo.

No App Can Save You From Government Spies

Reuters | Posted 06.07.2013 | Technology

By Madeline Will NEW YORK, June 6 (Reuters) - Americans suddenly fearful that the U.S. government can easily find out who they are tel...

Digital Fabrication: More Than the Stuff of Dreams

Michael Sigman | Posted 06.06.2013 | Technology
Michael Sigman

America's economy will suddenly grow by $400 billion -- roughly three percent --on July 31, when the Bureau of Economic Analysis begins to include in ...

Joy Resmovits

Obama Wants Teachers To Get Into Students' Heads

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 06.06.2013 | Politics

President Barack Obama imagines a country where teachers know what's happening in their students' brains. He wants "teachers to have an ability to ...

Gerry Smith

Smartphone Makers Will Have To Answer For Street Crime

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 06.05.2013 | Technology

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has summoned representatives of the four largest smartphone makers to a summit next week where he plans to...

Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Are the Google: Julian Assange Warns Resistance is Futile

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 06.04.2013 | Technology
Janet Tavakoli

Soon we'll be wearing Google Glass, the first step towards cybernetic implants to create the United States' hive mind that will assimilate and obliterate all other cultures on earth.

Farewell Google Reader, We Knew Thee Well

Joe Entwisle | Posted 06.03.2013 | Technology
Joe Entwisle

I haven't figured out exactly why Google decided to no longer provide access to Reader software, but it comes at a horrible time.

Translating Good Intentions Into Effective Cybersecurity Policy

Scott Charney | Posted 06.03.2013 | Technology
Scott Charney

Governments around the world are considering regulatory changes in an effort to reduce cybersecurity risk; in fact, more than 40 governments are worki...

Protest Pushes Facebook To Crack Down On Rape Content

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 05.29.2013 | Technology

In what amounts to a big win for advocates working against online domestic abuse jokes and references, Facebook has said it will try to crack down on ...

Gerry Smith

Jeremy Hammond, Anonymous Hacker, Pleads Guilty To Stratfor Attack

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 05.28.2013 | Technology

A member of the hacker group Anonymous who considers himself an "electronic Robin Hood" pleaded guilty Tuesday to hacking a private intelligence firm ...

Twitter Introduces 2-Factor Authentication To Protect Accounts From Hackers

The Huffington Post | Gerry Smith | Posted 05.31.2013 | Technology

Twitter unveiled a new security feature on Wednesday to combat a recent spate of high-profile hacks of user accounts. The feature, known as two-fac...

Gerry Smith

Scripps Employees Called 'Hackers' For Exposing Massive Security Flaw

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 05.23.2013 | Technology

Isaac Wolf, a reporter for Scripps Howard News Service, said he was just doing a basic Google search when he stumbled upon Social Security numbers and...

2 Men Arrested After Teen Was Run Over For His iPad

AP | By MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.20.2013 | Technology

Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas, police said Sunday. Jacob Dismont, 18, and Michae...

Gerry Smith

Suspected PayPal Hackers Seek Deal To Stay Out Of Prison

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 05.22.2013 | Technology

Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old. ...

Gerry Smith

Experts Warn: Wiretap Law Could Create 'Backdoors' For Hackers

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 05.08.2013 | Technology

As the Obama administration considers supporting a proposal to help law enforcement eavesdrop on Internet communications, experts warn the measure cou...

Hackers Plan 'Day To Remember' With Attacks On Banks, Government Agencies (UPDATE)

The Huffington Post | Gerry Smith | Posted 05.07.2013 | Technology

A collective of hacker groups plans to attack the websites of major government agencies and banks on Tuesday to protest American foreign policy. Fo...

Gerry Smith

Google Glass Flaw Lets Hackers 'Watch Your Every Move'

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 05.01.2013 | Technology

A security flaw in an early version of Google's new Internet-connected glasses could allow hackers to control the device remotely and use its camera t...

Redefining Reality: Delivering High Growth in Uncertain Times, Part 2

Michael Zacka | Posted 04.29.2013 | Business
Michael Zacka

Speed. Age. Glocal. Uncertainty. Innovation. I hear business leaders actively talking about these trends as separate entities. But it is clear to me that they are interrelated and must be taken as a whole to sustain profitable growth in this new age.

Gerry Smith

Companies That Get Hacked Should Be Fined, Regulator Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 04.25.2013 | Technology

In the wake of a brief stock market crash caused by hackers sending out a false tweet from the Associated Press' Twitter account, companies who fail t...

Redefining Reality and Delivering High Growth in Uncertain Times

Michael Zacka | Posted 06.17.2013 | Business
Michael Zacka

What's clear from the last year in business is that companies that achieve high, or even healthy growth, have the ability to focus, perceive all the options, choose one or several realities with great market appeal, innovate around them and continue to do so persistently.

White House Threatens To Veto Controversial Cybersecurity Bill

The Huffington Post | Gerry Smith | Posted 04.16.2013 | Technology

The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a controversial cybersecurity bill out of concern that it fails to protect the privacy of Internet users...