AARP Chooses Jack Ryan for Grownups


We have all read the label of PG on several movies. It stands for parental guidance. Of course, in an increasing violent and chaotic world, children must be guided by their guardians as to what lies...

5 Reasons to Start Loving Windows 8.1


You don’t have to look far to find reports that Windows 8 (and the updated Windows 8.1) is an unmitigated failure. A quick search turns up stories detailing why Windows 8 has failed, why Windows 8...

Microsoft Pays Youtubers To Promote Xbox One?


Popular game video maker Machinima apparently ran an endorsement giving Youtubers were a special bonus for promoting the Xbox One, Ars Technica reports. Suggestions of the promotion first appeared on...

The Reason Personality Tests Go Viral Will Blow Your Mind


Please tell me the web personality quiz is NOT making a comeback. Maybe the popularity of these quizzes never even declined. After rolling my eyes many many times this week, I eventually caved in. I...

Google Buys Nest Just As Internet Of Things Suffers First Global Cyber Attack


Following this week’s announcement that Google has agreed to purchase connected home device maker Nest for $3.2 billion there has been a lot of speculation about whether Google can be trusted with...
    






Yahoo’s COO de Castro Hit Two Of The Three Main Causes Of Executive Onboarding Failure


It’s not a surprise that Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer has fired COO Henrique De Castro. Yes. He was her first big hire. Yes. It is going to cost Yahoo crazy amounts of money to pay him off. But he does...
    






The Target Data Breach Is Becoming A Nightmare


Over the past month, details about the breadth of the Target data breach have continued to emerge.  It’s not a pretty story.  Bad enough when it appeared that through some means, hackers had gotten...
    






Obama Calls For ‘New Approach’ On NSA Surveillance–Not ‘New’ Enough For Critics


Six months after Edward Snowden began leaking the NSA’s secrets, President Obama has agreed that the way America spies needs to change. But when it comes to the degree of that change, the White House...