Would you subscribe to free broadcast television? Rumors are spreading of a possible subscription option from Apple, bringing you programs from the likes of CBS to AppleTV and iTunes.
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Apple Helping Drive the Broadcast TV Revolution
Getting animated about Facebook Disney has thrown over three quarters of a billion dollars to bring it up to Goliath status in the online gaming world, acquiring two and a half year old Playdom, which offers games for social networks – the new buzzword in gaming that has all the VCs on the planet hopping onto investments.…
Social engineering is the (morally vague) art of tricking someone out of their company’s technical secrets just by talking to them. It often involves deceit and relies on the fact that the weakest link in any computer security system is a human. At Defcon , one of the Capture the Flag contests performed by the attendees involved launching social engineering “attacks,” where contestants were asked to obtain the answers to a bunch of questions that probed into a company’s security defenses
Barnaby Jack, a security researcher showed how to hack two different automated teller machines in front of a crowd of hackers and security professionals this week at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
Shmoop , the online study guide publisher founded by husband-and-wife entrepreneurs Ellen and David Siminoff, has announced the first of what it says will be a number of deals with major media companies.
Angel investor and startup advisor Dave McClure The latest salvo in the ongoing debate over the health of the technology venture capital industry comes from investor and startup advisor Dave McClure in a blog post entitled “Moneyball For Startups.” One of the big questions that continue to spark heated discussion is whether angel or “super-angel” funds and investors are inherently better than big traditional VCs, a debate that got a boost recently when venture advisor Paul Kedrosky said there was an angel crash looming . But McClure — whose preferred blogging style consists of lengthy rants filled with capital letters, multiple expletives and seemingly random changes in font color — says that the big problem isn’t size. He argues that most VCs, big or small, are simply approaching the consumer Internet market in completely the wrong way
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