Soon enough, or not soon enough, all data will be stored in the Cloud. In the meantime, plenty of us have hard drives stored somewhere in a drawer or inside a box –we assume that this data is safe. But is it? There seems to be no certain answer, as …
There are extremely bright entrepreneurs, and there are extremely bright mentors —but David Cancel, of Drift, Hubspot, Performable, and Ghostery fame— is not only both and entrepreneur and a mentor. He also is a scientist’s with an observing mind that is pondering the hard questions: Why a startup succeeds or …
If your health insurer ever comes back and tells you that injuries sustained while petting sea lions require further scrutiny, that healthcare after space travel require more documentation, or that malfunctioning waterskis might result in the manufacturer also being held responsible, then this might be because ICD10 –the new category …
A product that I have used nearly every day for many years is Pandora Radio. Though it often wins over my own iTunes collection and its 30K items, Pandora is showing its age. In a space where evolution is quick, Pandora requires improvements, some incremental, and others maybe even radical, …
Yes we hear, Continuous Innovation is for companies big and small, for startups bootstrap-in’ and for staid businesses wanting to recover that spark. Yes, certainly this is the case –but so it is for that most fundamental block of all organizations: people. Yes, indeed, continuous innovation and transformation are for …
“Proprietary software is…” Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center said, “…an unsafe building material –you cannot inspect it.” Volkswagen’s action –of purposefully and shamelessly creating software to deceive both customers and regulators, indeed shows this to be the case. The software was carefully crafted to detect when an …
The Ashley Madison debacle –the release of millions of records of the company’s customers engaging, or seeking to engage, in extramarital affairs– is, certainly, great movie material. Seldom do we see the oldest human passions intermingled with new technologies exposing millions of folks to ridicule, loss of privacy, and in …
The upcoming Windows 10 release from Microsoft will decidedly be distinctive, if not revolutionary for Microsoft, because it will be distributed as a free update –and no more as a shrink-wrapped new product. That is, in a world where software is king in the manner of apps or services, the …
We as individual users are often limited by our own perspective when considering security questions. Take, for example, this question: “How likely it is that somebody will break into my account by guessing my password?” In general, we as individuals (both users and developers) approach this question by placing ourselves …
One of the challenges of credit card fraud is a direct result of one fact: the one party most affected by fraud and best prepared to detect fraud, the customer, more often than not, cannot find where (or how) his or her credit card number was stolen. Without this knowledge …