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Is Silicon Valley Morally Bankrupt? The technological progress engendered by the tech industry seems to be accepted as an unmitigated good—one that excuses a fairly broad swath of potential shortcomings. Should the pursuit of innovation excuse you from complying with the laws of the land? Is this moral bankruptcy or just business? |
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Google Fine-Tunes Mobile App Advertising, While Others Jump Ship Google and Facebook need mobile app advertising dollars to begin rolling in, and each company is taking its own measures to increase those figures in the coming year. How are other companies addressing the issue? Noel Wurst takes a closer look in this story. |
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HTML5 November Roundup In this roundup, we learn that a new survey shows developers planning to use more HTML5 in their jobs, Wikipedia is getting an HTML5 video player, and a popular Japanese mobile gaming company is betting on the markup language to boost sales. |
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Are You Addicted to Twitter? The number of people becoming addicted to Twitter is so prevalent that researchers have coined the name social media addiction disorder. Naomi Karten looks at the criteria used to determine whether or not you are addicted to this ever-present social media platform. |
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Security Update Roundup With all of the recent reports of banking glitches and security compromises, it’s wise to be prepared for the worst, especially if you need to ensure your data is stored as securely as possible. Here’s a roundup of the week’s most interesting security developments. |
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The Financial System and Biological Suicide The US financial system has been severally impacted by many outages in recent months. These banking technology glitches have been described as a form of "biological suicide," which highlights the dangers of banks continuing to rely on outdated legacy systems. |
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Urging of Social Media Heeded in Hurricane Sandy’s Wake As Hurricane Sandy tore its way up the East Coast, many people turned to social media platforms to post pictures, updates, and statuses to the world around them. The U.S. government suggested doing this as the storm approached and spread their message through the same channels. |
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If the Future Is Mobile, Where Is the Revenue? As PC-centric companies struggle to make a profit while the world goes mobile, those already in mobile technology have just as much trouble finding the advertising revenue that was once found on desktops. Marketers are going to have to do better than banner ads and accidental clicks. |
