November 19, 2013 Moving Content to a New iPad, and Calls From the ‘Help Desk’ by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Avoiding telephone scams and ways to search more easily. Published: November 21, 2013 at 12:00AM from NYT Technology http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/technology/personaltech/moving-content-to-a-new-ipad-and-calls-from-the-help-desk.html via…
November 19, 2013 YouTube Website Goes Down by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON YouTube, one of the world’s most popular websites, went offline for a short period for many of its viewers on Monday…
November 19, 2013 After N.S.A. Disclosures, Yahoo Moves to Encrypt Internal Traffic by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH Google, Yahoo and other technology companies are feverishly enabling new security features in an effort to assure users that they are…
November 19, 2013 Google to Pay $17 Million to Settle Privacy Case by CLAIRE CAIN MILLER By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER The case involved Google’s bypassing of privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser to use cookies to track users and show…
November 18, 2013 Salesforce.com Making Business Software More Social by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY At a customer conference in San Francisco, the cloud computing company will unveil its latest way to blur the lines between…
November 18, 2013 Facebook, Still Dominant, Strives to Keep Cachet by JENNA WORTHAM, VINDU GOEL and NICOLE PERLROTH By JENNA WORTHAM, VINDU GOEL and NICOLE PERLROTH The swift rise of upstarts like Snapchat suggests a changing reality for how — and where…
November 17, 2013 PlayStation 4 Starts Strong Despite Reports of Defects by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Sony said consumers bought one million of the company’s new video game console, the PlayStation 4, in the product’s first 24…
November 17, 2013 Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Silk Road, a vast Internet black market, stands as a tabloid monument to old-fashioned vice and new-fashioned technology. Published: November 17,…
November 17, 2013 Today’s Scuttlebot: Understanding Candy Crush Addictions, the Rise of Twitter Bots and #SFBatkid by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES Friday’s highlights from around the Web include an examination of the psychology at play that makes the mobile game…
November 17, 2013 Reaching for Silicon Valley by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Georgia Tech longed to build a start-up culture, but it says a professor took it too far. Three years later, he…