Twitter always seems to float to the top in news beacuse users’ account get compromised. Users are constantly complaining to Twitter about its security and the company should take some steps to improve it. Finally, on Wednesday Twitter rolled out a two-factor authentication to make user accounts more secure, and to prevent them from getting compromised and hacked, either by email phishing schemes or by a breach of password data elsewhere on the web....
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According to the British Police, the wearable Glass technologies from Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) along with social media may prove to be a helping hand in investigations and giving information about any expected crime in the future. Google Glass Was Another Channel To Explore An open-source intelligence manager with the NDEU, Umut Ertogral said that Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) wearable glasses was “another channel for us to explore and look at” while speaking at AusCERT security conference...
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Twitter has beefed up its security in response to a number of high profile attacks the social media giant and its users have suffered. Starting today, Twitter users will have the option of adding a second level of security when logging into their accounts. While Twitter itself hasn’t fallen victim to attacks, numerous people and corporations have had their Twitter accounts hijacked, none of which shed a positive light on Twitter. While not Twitter’s...
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) introduced the new Xbox One game/entertainment console on Tuesday and the backlash has already begun. The company recently announced that they might charge a fee for gamers to use pre-owned games on the new console. It also means that gamers who borrow a game from friends will have to pay to use the game. Although the company also mentioned that users can trade used games on the internet but they didn’t...
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Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) could easily have bought Tumblr Inc. if it wanted to, but the social networking giant didn’t. The Mark Zuckerberg led company has experience, capital and necessary expertise. Its visual advertising in feeds generates billions of dollars every year. That’s exactly what Tumblr dreamed of becoming, says Jason Stein of CNBC. Before Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced its acquisition of Tumblr for $1.1 billion, there were reports that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) may come up with its own...
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The Financial Times was the latest target of hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army, according to Reuters’ Mohammed Abbas, Kate Holton and Ben Berkowitz. The group apparently hacked the British newspaper’s website and Twitter account, replacing its headlines and posting links on its Twitter account to a video on YouTube. The Syrian Electronic Army The video supposedly shows members of a rebel group in Syria executing Syrian soldiers who are kneeling and wearing blindfolds....
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Google Glass is nowhere near where it will be when the company finally makes them available for sale in 2014. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) recently announced that it is working on pricing and that information will be made public by the end of the year. Presumably, that means that Google is not going to be ready for the holiday season. Who can blame them? While we all are unaware of the initial price point, there are...
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Marissa Mayer-led Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has partnered with Twitter Inc. to display tweets alongside other items on its home page news feeds. Mayer knows well that when there is breaking news like celebrity deaths, election results, terrorist attacks, or earthquakes, people turn to the microblogging site to get the latest updates. Marissa Mayer said on Yahoo! Inc.’s official blog that Tweets have become an important source of information for a large number of users....
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Syria yet again suffers an internet outage, cutting its citizens off from the rest of the online world. According to Internet monitoring firm Renesys, internet in the country has been down since Wednesday, 7:01 UTC (12:01 a.m. PDT). Confirmation U.S. based Renesys confirmed in a tweet that BGP (border gateway patrol) is down, inbound trace routes are failing, and DNS severs and government web sites are down. Another tweet from the state-run Syrian news...
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Time and time again various markets inflate into bubbles before eventually popping and causing investors to lose huge sums of money. It doesn’t matter how often a bubble pops, many investors simply seem to never learn. Now, the Singaporean government is trying to deflate a housing bubble that has seen home prices skyrocket, in some cases to more than 50 years worth of rent! Housing Sector In Singapore Is Vital The housing sector in...
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In a recent piece by Dr. Alexandra Samuel, published in The Wall Street Journal in early April of this year, she laid out a number of steps for executives to embrace social media rather than feel burdened by it and its inherent time stealing nature for those with busy schedules. She suggests that it’s important for executives to not worry about the potential awkwardness the platform could bring, to not think of it as...
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