Explaining Our Community Standards and Approach to Government Requests
By Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Chris Sonderby, Deputy General Counsel — Every day, people around the world use Facebook to connect with family and friends, share informatio...
T-Mobile extends Data Stash to prepaid customers, includes the same 10GB of free LTE data, and unused data rollover for up to a year
T-Mobile extends 10GB free LTE data to prepaid customers, includes data rollover for up to a year — T-Mobile announced Data Stash back in December …
Google is working on an open API for Google Now, allowing apps to supply information
A Google Now open API is in the works... and support for theme park ride queue times — Google Now will one day be able to work with information from all of the apps you use.
Microsoft launches Office 2016 and Skype for Business previews
A leaked version of Office 2016 gave us an early look at a new colorful theme early today, and now Microsoft is ready to let anyone test its upcoming Office client. Starting today, the software maker...
IDC revises projections for 2015 PC shipments downward, now expects a 5% drop this year
No, Really, the PC Is Dying and It's Not Coming Back — A little while back, we started to hear a few voices speaking up against the drumbeat of doom. No, PCs weren't dead. They were maybe even com...
Bill Gurley amps up bubble talk, predicting “dead unicorns” this year and a Facebook revenue hit
Bill Gurley predicts ‘dead unicorns’ in startup-land this year — A crash would affect more than just startups. Bill Gurley, the prominent investor behind Uber and Snapchat …
Xbox head Phil Spencer on Xbox One's future and its unification with PCs through Windows 10
Phil Spencer's new vision for the Xbox One — The Xbox chief on the change of direction that will help Xbox in its fight against PlayStation. — Things have been looking up for the Xbox One …
Government Requests For Facebook Data Decrease In U.S. And UK, But Rise In India
Facebook's latest report on government requests shows a decrease in requests from many Western countries in the second half of 2014, but that's offset by increases from India, Turkey and Russia.
YouTube introduces interactive cards to complement annotations - and they work on mobile too
YouTube annotations - often useful uploader addendums, other times annoying distractions. Today though, the video platform is announcing a new and improved tool: cards.
Microsoft: malware removal tools have eliminated Superfish adware from 250K Lenovo PCs by March 4
Joint effort guts Superfish — Microsoft earlier this week said that search-and-destroy work by it, Lenovo and other software makers has reduced the daily number of Lenovo PCs found infected with the...
Q&A with Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark, who's urging FBI to take online threats seriously in wake of Gamergate
The threats made against women under … Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica : Congressperson asks DoJ to “intensify enforcement” of online harassment laws Adi Robertson / The Verge : Rep. Katherine Clark wan...
‘Sirius’ Is the Google-Backed Open Source Siri
Sirius, a Google-funded open source program similar to Apple's Siri or Google's Google Now voice recognition application, could finally democratize the virtual assistant. — RIght now, virtual assist...
Yahoo demos plug-in for end-to-end email encryption, to launch by end of year; rolls out single-use password via SMS feature
By Chris Stoner, Director of Product Management Soulskill / Slashdot : Yahoo Debuts End-To-End Encryption Email Plugin, Password-Free Logins Hannah Jane Parkinson / Guardian : Tired of forgetting your...
Facebook to announce ad performance measurement tool on its own and third party apps next week
Mobile Ad World Braces for Facebook's Move Into Measurement — Facebook next week is expected to announce a tool to help mobile app developers measure whether an ad caused people to download an app …
Cuba allows for the country's first free public Wi-Fi network at Havana cultural center
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DARPA's new Brandeis program aims to improve privacy by securing the data users voluntary share over the Internet with third parties
Cheetah Mobile Buys MobPartner For $58M As Ad Tech Consolidates
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How ResearchKit minimizes obstacles to participation, enabling transformative medical research
How to volunteer yourself as a citizen laboratory rat Brian Katz / A Screw's Loose : ResearchKit & Apple - What they can teach the Enterprise Kevin Loria / Business Insider : Apple is ushering in a ‘n...
YouTube is exploring the prospect of launching its own subscription VOD service, modeled on YouTube Music Key
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge :
While apps and search made URLs less important, URLs will remain the best way to uniquely label places on the web
John Pavlus / Medium :
Evolution of the smartwatch, like the smartphone, will be a multi-year, multi-vendor effort, with Apple Watch now contributing app-centric approach and Wi-Fi
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica :
Gigaom's former VP of Research on how venture capital and the growth expectations that come with it contributed to Gigaom's demise
Michael Wolf / Medium :
China wants to harness the economic potential of the Internet while still censoring content
Charles Clover / Financial Times :
YC-backed nonprofit DemocracyOS runs a small political party in Argentina that votes based on polling it conducts online
Max Chafkin / Fast Company :
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.