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Category Archives: Internet
Swiss ICT Awards 2014: The Winners
On November 5th, 2014 the Swiss ICT Award ceremony was held in the KKL Lucerne. Many companies had applied for the prestigious award and the Jury earlier this year had selected the finalists for the last round. See the finalists for the Swiss … Continue reading
Re-use your old smartphone (3 ideas)
If you are like me then you also have a drawer with the several generations of phones that you went through in the last 15–20 years. Of course you should not let them acquire mold but keep their batteries charged … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Smartphone
Tagged App Store, Mobile hotspot, Mobile phone, Phone recycling, Roaming, Smartphone, Subscriber identity module, Tethering, wifi radio
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Doing Well By Doing Good: Re-CAPTCHA at the Cross-Section of Technology, Economics, and Psychology
A colleague of mine at Infosys, Kapil Ashok Jaiswal, posted an article on our company internal blog site. I am thankful that he gave me the permission to re-post his contribution on my blog. He had titled his blog “Killing … Continue reading
Posted in Crowd Sourcing, Internet, Social Media, Web
Tagged CAPTCHA, Crowdsourcing, Psychology, reCAPTCHA
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Hackers join McAfee to combat electric vehicle viruses | SmartPlanet
SmartPlanet just published an interesting article that I would like to share with my readers: Hackers join McAfee to combat electric vehicle viruses | SmartPlanet. Here the first paragraphs of the article: “A team of hackers working for security company … Continue reading
Privacy Revisited: A Standard Information Sharing Label
We all are very familiar with nutrition labels on milk bottles and groceries. They disclose to us that water has 0% fat and that the burger you are heating in the microwave contains 70%fat and some interesting chemicals. But when it comes … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Social Media, Web
Tagged Facebook, personal information, Privacy, Privacy policy, sharing
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Google Drive Arrived: Cloud Storage And Privacy/Security
Cloud Storage is not any longer just for the big guys. This morning when I updated my Android phone a new app was loaded called Google Drive. It explained that it was part of Google Docs and I downloaded it. … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Internet, New and Noteworthy, Security, Social Media, Web
Tagged Android, DropBox, Google, Google Docs, Google Drive, security, Wuala
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‘Li-Fi’: Wireless Data Via LED Lights, Anywhere
In an earlier post I wrote about data transmission by light in the home. But this development gives the story a new twist: Using not only the lights in buildings but also outside light sources to transmit data wirelessly.
Internet And Smartphone Addiction
After posting my article on the IT’s Seven Worst Addictions (And How To Cure Them), I came across a posting on coupons.org where they expand on “Online Junkies and Brain Shrinkage: The Rise of Internet Addiction.” For my readers’ convenience I include … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Social Media
Tagged Addiction, Facebook, Smartphone, Social network, Twitter
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Google’s New Privacy Policy: What Has Changed and What You Can Do About It
Wired.com today published an article from a blog at webmonkey.com: Google’s New Privacy Policy: What Has Changed and What You Can Do About It | Webmonkey | Wired.com. I posted an update towards the end of this article describing “Tom Henderson’s … Continue reading
Posted in Identity Management, Internet, Security, Social Media, Web
Tagged Gmail, Google, Privacy, Privacy policy, Search, Tor
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Check Your DNS Settings Now! Combat DNSChanger!
(Reposted from C|net and other sources:) Note: Following March 8, 2012 your computer if infected will lose internet connectivity and — if worst comes to worst — be redirected to malicious sites. The malware scam DNSChanger that has affected numerous computer … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Security, Web
Tagged DNS, DNSChanger, Domain Name System, Federal Bureau of Investigation, MacOS, Malware, Trojan Horses, Windows
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Another Strong Personal Vote For the Cloud
Friday (I seem to be very lucky with Friday’s–see my earlier vote for the cloud) my “smart”-phone spontaneously started rebooting. It had done this before. This behavior is inconvenient for the user since one does not realize that the phone … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Internet, Social Media, Web
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Act Now: Set Your LinkedIn Privacy
Retweeted from several messages that I received: In case you don’t know it, without attracting too much publicity, LinkedIn has updated their privacy conditions. Without any action from your side, LinkedIn is now permitted to use your name and picture … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, New and Noteworthy, Security, Social Media
Tagged LinkedIn, Privacy, Social advertising, Social media, Social network
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New EU Directive Might Reshape the Clouds
As reported in Silicon.de, in Experian.it and in other sources, the European Commission is planning to release a new directive on data protection, which will affect the Cloud Computing industry. Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenships … Continue reading
New Security Threat: Infected QR Codes
Tod Wasserman recently warned on “Mashable Tech”: “Be careful the next time you scan a QR code, because it might just cost you money and wreak havoc on your smartphone. “That’s the warning from Kaspersky Lab, which has noticed the first … Continue reading
“You Have Zero Privacy Anyway — Get Over It” (Really?)
Scott McNeally has been quoted many times with this (in)famous phrase from 1999. But as Steven Cherry discusses is his podcast (mp3) The Car as Informant – IEEE Spectrum “even he (Scott) would be surprised at the extent to which we can now be tracked, … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, Identity Management, Internet, Security, Social Media
Tagged Federation, Information separation, Kantara Initiative, Liberty Alliance, Privacy
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Greatest Threats to Cloud Security
Experts explain greatest threats to cloud security. (NetworkWorld) The article starts: Cloud security threats come in all shapes and sizes, so we asked eight experts to weigh in on what they see as the top threat to cloud security. The answers run … Continue reading
A Network for Wild Experimentation — 100 Gbit/s
A Network for Wild Experimentation – Technology Review. Quote from the article: “ESNet and Internet2 have built a networking test bed for ideas that are too disruptive for the networks that people actually use. “In a few unused back alleys … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, New and Noteworthy, Web
Tagged Computer networking, Energy Sciences Network, Ethernet, Internet2
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Apps: Are We on the Wrong Tack?
Everybody loves them. The little apps that you can download to your pad or smartphone that make life so much easier. But why should I download an app that allows me to read Der Spiegel or 20minutes? What happened to … Continue reading
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