Tech Sightings, January 28, 2014
Akamai: Average Internet Speed Grew 29% Year-over-Year to 3.6 Mbps, Mobile Traffic Jumped by 80% The latest figures from Akamai’s quarterly State of the Internet report for Q3 2013 show average global...
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Indonesia’s Young Test Social Media Limits
Indonesian youths browse their social media accounts at an Internet cafe in Jakarta, Indonesia, Dec. 23, 2013. (AP) Social media has become an integral part of people’s lives; and nowhere is this more...
View Article3D-Scanning Ethiopia’s History; Lenovo’s Superfish; Indonesia Smartphones
Today’s Tech Sightings: 3D Laser Scanner Makes Haunting Works of Art Historians Charles Matz and Jonathan Michael Dillon use 3D Lidar scanning — a technology that uses pulses of light to map 3D...
View ArticleCuba on the Web; Indonesia’s Poaching Games; Mobile Addicts
Today’s Tech Sightings: Cuba’s Internet Dilemma: How to Emerge From Web’s Stone Age Cuba is finding its way to the Internet highway the rest of the world has been using, albeit very slowly. The...
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Indonesia’s Google Balloons; the Threat to Apple; 000Webhost Hacked
Today’s Tech Sightings: A Google Project Loon balloon is on display at the Air Force Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, June 16, 2013. Google hopes its balloons will bring Internet access to...
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North Korea Online Population: 0.03 Percent; Death of the Java Plug-in
Today’s Tech Sightings: A 2015 file photo from APTN shows a North Korean man using his smartphone to access the country’s online shopping service. (AP/APTN) There Are Just 7,000 Web Users in North...
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Indonesia Fights Same-sex Emoticons; 25 Percent of Mobile Apps Insecure
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – The logo of free messaging app Line and it’s sticker characters are pictured at the Line Corp’s press briefing venue in Urayasu, east of Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters) Indonesia...
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LA Hospital Pays Bitcoin Ransom; Empowering Indian Women in Tech
Today’s Tech Sightings: The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center is pictured in Los Angeles, California, Feb. 16, 2016. The FBI is investigating a cyber attack that crippled the hospital’s electronic...
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Nigerian Girls to Get Tech Training; Indian Students Take on WhatsApp
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – A child rescued by Nigerian soldiers waits to receive treatment at a refugee camp in Yola; Nigeria, May 3; 2015, after being rescued from captivity by Boko Haram...
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