“George Orwell was an optimist” says Mikko Hypponen. This is a must watch, and he is a must follow on Twitter.
Forget anonymous e-mail. Think privacy.
Google or Skype or Yahoo are capable of providing true end-to-end encryption, but the problem that they run into is that that stops their business model of advertising. Mega’s business model is pay for storage. There’s no advertising.
I cannot wait to see this in action in the new year.
Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail published an article yesterday entitled “How BlackBerry blew it: The Inside Story“. This is quite an extensive inside look at the demise of this former tech giant. 9 pages in total. It tells a story of how divided focus among executives is extremely hurtful to a company. The best…
This is how a Helsingin Sanomat journalist tried to save Nokia In the evening as the parents were going to bed, the drowsy four-year-old appeared at their bedroom door with a question: “Can I take that magic telephone [iPhone] and put it under my pillow tonight?” It was at that was the moment that the…
Jobs (2013) film The film desperately needs some sort of unifying story. It jumps around in time too much. No part of the story really gets fleshed out so much that you care about it. I would much rather the film covered the launch of Apple as a company, say, rather than trying to cram…
Carl Icahn’s Letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook Just a few days before Apple’s Q4 report, billionaire investor Icahn gave his input to Cook. We want to be very clear that we could not be more supportive of you, the existing management team, the culture at Apple and the innovative spirit it engenders. The criticism…
David Pogue on Siri and Android. Unfortunately, Android has an Achilles’ heel — actually, more like Achilles’ entire leg. To issue spoken commands, you have to tap the microphone icon on the Google search bar. And it’s only on the home screen or the Google Now screen (swipe up from the bottom). So you can’t…
In a major yet unsurprising move, Microsoft has acquired Nokia’s device and services devision for around $7.2 Billion. Building on the partnership with Nokia announced in February 2011 and the increasing success of Nokia’s Lumia smartphones, Microsoft aims to accelerate the growth of its share and profit in mobile devices through faster innovation, increased synergies,…
