Juice, Soda and Identity Theft

You can run, but you can’t hide. Yes. Its that bad. Order Chinese online. Buy a soda. Turn on the air conditioning. Now you’ve done it! Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines By Nicole Perlroth SAN FRANCISCO — They came in through the Chinese takeout...

Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You

By DAVID STREITFELD, New York Times “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,” wrote Walt Whitman, America’s great bard of self-promotion. As the world goes ever more digital, quite a few businesses are adopting that philosophy — hiring a veritable chorus of touts to sing...

Is Big Data an Economic Big Dud?

By JAMES GLANZ for the New York Times IF pencil marks on some colossal doorjamb could measure the growth of the Internet, they would probably be tracking the amount of data sloshing through the public network that spans the planet. Christened by the World Economic...

Women and the High Ranks in Google

True or False: Technology is dominated by men, guys, dudes, nerds with funny glasses, who live for online gaming, energy drinks, and relentless bonding with the computer screen. Yea, it is totally true. It will probably stay that way for a quite some time. But, its...