The CEOs of Yahoo and Facebook were each on the hot seat Wednesday answering questions about the U.S. government’s data surveillance programs.
100+ IT pros turn out for Infrastructure Strategies 2013
Over 100 Middle East-based IT professionals today filled the Habtoor Grand Hotel’s Andalus Ballroom to bursting point, as Infrastructure Strategies 2013 kicked off the local tech event season with a bang.
Nissan working on smart watch that monitors both car and driver
Nissan is working on a smart watch that will monitor both its Nismo cars and their drivers. The watch, which …
Review: Samsung Galaxy Gear vs Sony SmartWatch 2
There are few consumer electronics products as hyped at present as so-called smartwatches. While much of the hype is due …
Topsy wants to become the Google of Twitter search
Searching through Twitter’s archive of tweets can be frustrating – they are sorted on the site by Twitter’s own algorithms, and older tweets tend to get buried. Google? Forget it. Topsy, an analytics company, wants to do it better.
Hands on Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch
Samsung’s Galaxy Gear is here, launched on Wednesday at Germany’s IFA electronics show. I got a chance to try it …
Amazon hiring 'top secret' IT staff as it fights for CIA work
The U.S. isn’t doing a good job keeping secrets. Think Edward Snowden. But demand for trustworthy IT professionals is strong, especially if they want to work for Amazon Web Services.
Yahoo looks to freshen its image with a new logo
Yahoo’s logo is now a little bit sleeker, under a redesign unveiled Wednesday in keeping with the company’s reinvention efforts.
IT Job Search Tips for Baby Boomers
You have 25 years of experience as an IT professional, you made it through the dot com boom and the housing bubble. So why is it you can’t seem to find a new position in your chosen technology field?
IT hiring: Your text resume is soooo last century
Tim Ondrey has glimpsed the future of the job-search market, and it’s going multimedia. Already, he has had one friend …
Dark skies ahead
Can the big cloud vendors work around the allegations of NSA surveillance, or is there a gloomy outlook for cloud in the region?
Report: The NSA pays millions for US telecom access
When it comes to tapping into U.S. telecommunications networks for surreptitious surveillance, the U.S. National Security Agency can’t be accused of not paying its way.
How Social Analytics Can Improve Enterprise IT Efficiency
Imagine your manager offered to eliminate much of the red tape, bureaucracy and distractions you encounter daily.
If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smart watches, are you successful?
Sales of so-called “smart watches” will surge from 1 million to 36 million in five years, according to a speculative new report from Juniper Research. But whether that defines “success” remains an open question.
Twitter acquires Trendrr to get a better handle on tweets about TV
Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a data analysis company, to better leverage users’ tweets about television to draw in more advertisers.
Toyota Goes All-in With Social Media Monitoring
We began testing social media monitoring and sentiment-analysis tools about two years ago, when the buzzword was really taking off.
Yahoo aims for consistency with site redesign
Yahoo has redesigned its Sports, Movies, Music, TV, omg, Games and Weather sites with a more consistent look and some personalized tools, the company said Tuesday.
With Ballmer retiring, tech world awaits white smoke from Redmond
Mere days into the Steve Ballmer Successor Watch, guessing who will be his replacement has become a new tech industry …
SSDs still maturing, new memory tech still 10 years away
Solid-state drive adoption will continue to grow and it will be more than 10 years before it is ultimately replaced …
Next Microsoft CEO faces rocky road in easing NSA-fueled privacy worries
When Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer steps down in the next 12 months, his successor will be left with the …