Conferences Would an Internet of Things Threaten the Internet of People? If 50 billion, or however many billion, devices share the same Internet as some 8 billion humans by the year 2020, will the weakest links in data security be on machines that have any degree of human control? Put another way, could a not-so-smart client on a machine-to-machine (M2M) network become a future target of malicious Internet activity… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments
Community Daily Wrap: Facebook Denies Reading Your Texts and more According to the London Sunday Times, Facebook admitted to reading the text messages of users who had downloaded their smartphone app. Facebook denies this claim. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a… Robyn Tippins View comments
Apple Where Google & Others Crossed the Line Last week's online privacy fracas-of-the-week was about the revelation that Google (and other advertisers) had learned to circumvent Safari's settings to let third-party cookies track users more easily. Apple's browser's default setting messes with the way advertisers track users. The gist is this: Cookies are set by the site you're on, but some… Jon Mitchell View comments
Google This Month's Google Search Changes Google announced a big slate of changes to search this month. It confirmed a refresh of the "Panda" tweaks to the search algorithm that are designed to punish low-quality content that games search results. There are many new tweaks to parts of the algorithm, including "freshness," link evaluation and detection of official pages. But the most… Jon Mitchell View comments
Facebook Facebook Mobile Aims To Cut Apple Out We've been piling loads of criticism on Facebook for not having a clearly articulated mobile strategy as it pushes towards its initial public offering. Today, the company took the first step towards allaying those fears. Bret Taylor, Facebook's chief technology officer, wowed the Mobile World Congress Tuesday, uneviling a series of moves that… Social Dave Copeland View comments