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The Bidding War for Dell Has Officially Begun
March 25, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Never mind that Dell buyout deal proposed by founder and CEO Michael Dell in early February: activist investor and professional company-shaker-upper Carl Icahn has put a better offer on the table in a letter released by the PC manufacturer today. Icahn, unhappy with the share price Dell offered, is offering ...
Miami's Voter Fraud Is Only the Beginning of Election Hacking
March 18, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Authorities have confirmed for the first time ever, that hackers attempted and almost succeeded at rigging a Miami primary vote, uncovering underlying security issues with the online voting systems of the future. In the Miami-Dade primary election last August, requests for over 2,500 phantom absentee ballots flooded the Miami Dade ...
The Very First Cell Phone Calls
March 18, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The cell phone made its public debut 40 years ago, which sounds like a very long time ago because it was. Ahead of the April 3rd anniversary, The New York Times Magazine takes us back to the very day in 1973 that inventor Martin Cooper first showed off his portable ...
Digg Has Made an RSS Reader Its Top Priority After Google Reader Died
March 15, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Here's a little light at the end of a dark Google reader tunnel: Because of Reader's demise the people behind news aggregation site Digg have sped up their own RSS plans to get fans a feed before Google Reader's July 1 death date. "We have been planning on building a ...
Do You Need to Meet Everyone You Hire?
March 12, 2013 After a pile of backlash over her work-from-home ban, Marissa Mayer, the Yahoo CEO who can do no right, is now getting flack for trying to get the best people to work at her fledgling company, which might not be as ridiculous as it sounds. Just ask Sheryl Sandberg. At ...
Commentary: The Ban on Cellphone Unlocking Has Gone Too Far
March 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
In one of the industry's first effort to allay customer concerns since regulations went into effect six weeks ago that make it illegal to unlock your cellphone, AT&T is telling you to relax, they'll unlock it for you. As long as you do exactly what they say. Indeed, the newly ...
How You Can Stop Webcam Hackers from Watching You
March 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
There is one foolproof way to avoid an increasingly terrifying group of perverted cyberspies who are hijacking (mostly) women's computer cameras: Buy a new computer that has a light that goes on whenever your webcam is in use, whether you know it or not. [Update: Tape also works.] Ars Technica's ...
Not All Work-from-Home Bans Are Created Equal
March 6, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
So Best Buy announced this week that it, too, will start making its workers come in and — well, well — nobody is calling new white-male CEO Hubert Joly a bad feminist yet. What gives? When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer demanded last week that her workers actually come into work, ...
Coolest Thing About Learning to Code Is Getting a Job
February 27, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
In an attempt to get more schools to offer programming classes, Code.org has released a promotional video filled with celebrities and "celebrities" that basically says: learn code and you too can work in a hip Silicon Valley office. About three minutes into the video, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how ...
You Will Be Warned: ISPs Roll Out Their Anti-Piracy Alert Systems
February 27, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
After some delays, the movie industry's home-brewed system to fight Internet pirates has finally arrived, and depending on their internet service provider, pirates may not have all that much to fear. In light of the government's inability to pass legislation like SOPA and PIPA the Motion Picture Associate of America ...
