Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Twitter Builds a Better Gagger
Twitter announced on Thursday that it can now withhold content from users country by country on demand, while still making that content available to the rest of the world. The news sparked widespread anger as critics accused the microblogging service of censorship and warned that the policy might impede popular anti-government movements such as those seen during the Arab Spring.
Under CEO Dick Costolo, Twitter is Growing Up
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — In its gradual rise from scrappy start-up to a global communications platform, Twitter has long faced crisis after existential crisis. What kind of company is it? How do we become profitable? What the hell do people use Twitter for, anyway? Since 2006, these questions have persisted, plaguing a company still getting [...]
Palms Down: Mobile Hardware Guru Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP
HP’s mobile era is over. Jon Rubinstein, the HP executive to lead the charge against Apple’s iPad devices, has left the company as of Friday morning. A company spokesman confirmed to Wired in an interview that the mobile hardware guru, once a star at Palm when that company was still a contender, was no longer [...]
Monday, January 30, 2012
Symantec Tells Customers to Pull the Plug on pcAnywhere Following Code Theft
Symantec is sounding the alarm for users of its pcAnywhere remote access software following threats from a hacker. In some cases, said the security software maker, they might want to turn off and disable the application entirely.
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