Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

CYBER: Botnets Elicit Mercenary Government Approach CYBER: Dutch Hack Internet Forums CYBER: Dutch Rules for Mass Interceptions CYBER: Encryption Arms Race (Techies vs. NSA) CYBER: Trojan-Banker.Win32/64.Neverquest CYBER: True Cost of Cybercrime EDUCATION: Virtual Reality to Reduce Racism? ETHICS: UK Destroyed Files on Its Colonial Atrocities THREAT: CAR Crisis – “Human Catastrophe of Epic Proportions” THREAT: …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Global Computing – Cheaper

Amazon Aims to Make Computing Cheaper Amazon has aspirations beyond being the world’s largest retailer. The online retail giant also aspires to be a mega force in computing, says The New York Times Bits Blog in: “Amazon Bares Its Computers.” Amazon has announced that it is taking its Amazon Web Services beyond simple cloud-computing to …

Stephen E. Arnold: Iphone SayHi App Over Google Translate?

Iphone SayHi App Preferred to Google Translate App The article on MakeUseOf titled SayHi Translate Is Quite Possibly The Closest Thing To Star Trek’s Universal Translator promotes the Iphone app SayHi as the best translation app available. At one $1.99, the app provides translations between some 40 languages (more are available with the premium version). …

Stephen E. Arnold: NSA and Google Compete for Internet – We All Lose

The NSA and Google Compete for the Internet, and We All Lose An article posted on Tech Eye titled US Spying is Killing the Internet Claims Google explains the outrage expressed by Google when it was released that the NSA had tapped into their system in order to obtain user information. Google’s security director Richard …