Spikes Builds A Secure Browser For The Enterprise

The vast majority of malware on corporate networks arrives through the browser. Branden Spikes, the CEO of Spikes, believes that by virtualizing the browser and having it run separate from the desktop, his company can prevent the vast majority of these attacks. The WebKit-based browser runs in a virtualized environment either on-premise or in the...

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India’s Meru Cabs Launches Smartphone Apps With Emergency Distress Button

In its smartphone debut, Meru Cabs is targeting a more diverse group of users than just taxi customers: it’s hoping to save people caught in a dangerous situation — a necessary feature in a country where victims are often ignored by the authorities and passers-by.The new iOS and Android apps, soft-launched earlier this week, feature an In Case...

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Have A Space Burial As Elysium Sends Your Ashes Into Orbit

Because Carl Sagan once r eminded us that we are all made of star stuff, there might be a few people who wish to go quietly into the night by sending their ashes into space.A San Franciso-based company called Elysium Space pledges to send the cremated remains of clients out into space for $2,000. They are contracting with several commercial space...

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Armstrong Confirms “Hundreds” Of Layoffs At Patch, 400 Sites Shuttered Or Partnered Off, And A New CEO

We reported yesterday that AOL’s hyper-local news service would lose hundreds of employees today, and now we have confirmation from a well-placed Patcher privy to the call that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong did indeed confirm to employees that hundreds would be laid off, with notifications of who will be let go coming throughout the coming week. (Disclosure:...

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BlackBerry Reportedly Considering Going Private, Following Dell In A Bid To Refocus With Less Scrutiny

Canada’s smartphone industry pioneer BlackBerry is giving a lot more thought to taking the company private, according to a new report from Reuters. The strategy has been tabled before, but CEO Thorsten Heins and the BlackBerry Board of Directors are increasingly mulling the possibility of paying off shareholders and structuring a private equity...

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Obama Announces Website For NSA Transparency, 3 More Reforms

President Obama announced a series of new reforms to increase public confidence in the National Security Agency’s controversial Internet and telephone surveillance program. The press conference (live at whitehouse.gov/live) is still on-going. Here are the 4 reforms he’s proposed. All are quite vague:1). “Pursue appropriate reforms” around section...

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Tablet Tribulations: Asus Dumps Windows RT While NVIDIA Hopes For The Best

Asus may have a hand in producing Google’s refreshed Nexus 10 Android tablet, but recent remarks from the company’s chief executive reveal that the Taiwanese company is turning up its nose at the prospect of making another Windows RT-powered tablet entirely.“It’s not only our opinion,” CEO Jerry Shen remarked to the Wall Street Journal. “The industry...

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DOJ defends Apple e-book price fixing injunction, says publishers had it easy

The US Department of Justice isn't buying publishers' arguments that proposed injunctions against Apple for alleged e-book price fixing are excessive and contradictory. DOJ attorney Lawrence Buterman claims in a response letter that the penalties against Apple are necessarily harsher, since it didn't settle the accusations like its reported co-conspirators....

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Motorola Moto X review

phone that wouldn’t have existed if Google had not paid $12.5 billion for Motorola over a year and a half ago, and one that lets Google introduce its vision of a mass-market Android smartphone without taking center stage. In a world filled with everything from major smartphone manufacturers to non-name white-box vendors producing Android devices,...

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Samsung to buy German OLED company Novaled

OLED is heating up as Samsung plans to spend $350 million acquiring German OLED company Novaled. Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung, in conjunction with its affiliates, plans to acquire German company Novaled, which makes organic light emitting diode or OLED technology. OLEDs are used in next-gen displays for cell phones and televisions,...

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Good news for Boston startups — new incubator space on tap for Watertown

Home Depot? Check. Registry of Motor Vehicles? Check. Restaurants? Check. Startup incubator? Coming soon to the Arsenal Mall.tweet thisIt may not be Silicon Valley or San Francisco’s South of Market, but Boston has a vibrant startup scene. And it would be even more vibrant if startups could find affordable office space anywhere nearby. Cambridge’s...

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With web commenting, praise begets more praise, MIT study found

It turns out for all the democratization of the web, a mob mentality of sorts still exists. An MIT study shows that early positive recommendations for articles lead to more likes and upvotes.tweet thisThe internet practically runs on the recommendations of others. Whether it’s finding the right rug for your living room, the best Chinese restaurant...

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How to pick the best MOOCs: 6 tips from a Coursera junkie

Feynman Liang has finished more than 36 online classes, putting the 21-year-old in the upper ranks of MOOC veterans. Here are his tips for picking classes. tweet this Feynman Liang will make you feel like a slacker. The 21-year-old is pursuing a dual-degree program in engineering and biophysics from Dartmouth and Amherst, but in the last year...

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Motorola is reportedly working on a new Nexus in time for the holidays

Hot on the heels of the Moto X, Motorola might be work on Google’s next Nexus smartphone in time for a Q4 launch.tweet this9to5Google spotted a rather interesting post Taylor Wimberly made to Google Plus on Thursday. You might remember that Wimberly, formerly of Android and Me, was chock full of leaks for the Moto X, most of which turned out to...

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Bored by Google Glass? Hands on with Atheer augmented reality glasses

CEO Soulaiman Itani said the company plans to lay the digital world over the physical world. If it succeeds, the platform will be much more promising than Google Glass. tweet this Google Glass is polished, I’ll give it that. From its flat design UI to the industrial-feeling Google office where I first tried it on, it’s an experience that...

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Snooping on your kids: Sometimes surveillance defeats the purpose

I spent close to a decade using a variety of surveillance tools to spy on, stalk and otherwise monitor my three daughters’ online behavior as teenagers. Am I proud of that? No. But I learned a lot This post is the third of four stories about my experiences snooping on my kids and their online behavior over a period of years. Here are parts one...

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Google Maps app now displays ads in your search results

Ads in the Google Maps app are relevant to what you searched for, but can send you farther out of the way than the actual nearest result. The next time you’re using the Google Maps app to search for some late night tacos, your first result might be an ad for a nearby taqueria with a buy-one-get-one-free carne asada special.Beginning on Thursday,...

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