NATO To Use Internet Gaming To Boost Cyber Defense Capability / image via Defpro.com

In what could turn out to be a complex, overwhelming mix of real-life defense situations and cyber-based defense scenarios, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Tuesday announced that it is launching a defense exercise aimed at beefing up the European and Atlantic military organization’s defense skills.
The report, emanating from NATO’s cyber defense center in Tallinn, Estonia, said the unique …

Are You Using Frictionless Mobile Computing Technology?

In the fast-moving Web world, frictionless means no hassle, no inconvenience, one click, rather than many, and an art, rather than just some old multi-step system.
Scientific American today identified four frictionless systems offered by four giants in the computing and communication industry.
First is Apple’s free iCloud Internet-based feature whose key capability is synchronization of a user’s favorite mobile computing applications …

Kurt Varner is an enterprising and innovative entrepreneur, and so much so that he is actually pioneering a different way of launching a startup, from the back of a car. The technology entrepreneur has made the news for working out of the back of his car as he prepares to launch his application called Daily Toaster, which he says will guarantee that you wake up on time in the morning.
Kurt, who is no stranger to the startup culture, founded and sold video blog site Vloggo, and seeks to do …

Social gaming company Zynga has acquired popular mobile application game “Draw Something”. Zynga got shocked into taking out their checkbook after the new game, which has only been around for the past six weeks, reached 35 million downloads within the short period, and knocked Zynga from the top spot on the apps store.
In those six weeks, players created more than 1 billion drawings, with about 3,000 drawings per second last week. The shock-entrant utilizes the same game play …

The resilience of the guys at The Pirate Bay, a link catalogue website that previously hosted bit torrents but now hosts magnetic links, is about to take for the skies, quite literally.
In a blog post on The Pirate Bay website, founders said they were concerned that their servers and other equipment, used to run the website, may be targeted in the future by authorities, and so they are thinking of some alternatives.
Initially, the group had said it would start a parallel Internet, the …

Dropbox, the popular file sharing platform that has become a darling with many small businesses, has made it much easier to share files through its integration with Facebook today.
The new feature allows users to share files and folders with Facebook friends through the sync feature Dropbox has added.
To use the new feature, all users have to do is head to their Dropbox account, click on the share option for the folder or file they wish to share, and in the pop-up window, they will see an …

Startups have one major problem, according to Ben Silbermann, cofounder of photo sharing and collecting startup Pinterest, and that is taking too much advice from outsiders. Silbermann was speaking at the ongoing SXSW conference in Austin Texas and continued by warning startups that getting too much advice from so-called veterans can end up muddling the decision-making process, or worse yet, corrupt it altogether.
“Don’t take too much advice,” says Silbermann. “Most …

The Internet of Things is a concept that has been around since the early nineties, when scientists discovered the capability of devices and other objects to communicate with central control centers, as well as with each other through tiny embedded microprocessors. Today, there exists about 15 billion connected devices and Ericsson predicts that by 2020, that number could blow up to 50 billion connected devices.
UK Chip maker ARM has just announced the release of its most energy efficient …

The transformation of PayPal in its new home at eBay continues with the latest development being a revelation that the company would be launching a Square-like service sometime this year. Square is a popular payment service that enables users to use their smartphones as Points of Sale or POS terminals.
The technology works through a dongle attached to the earphone jack docket and has a card reader. The user then activates the application, attaches the dongle and swipes a credit or debit card …

At the ongoing South By South west conference, better known as SXSW, the innovation and disruptor award is going to a very unlikely group of persons – the homeless in the city of Austin Texas. BBH Labs, a PR firm that has been running campaigns for its clients in the conference is working together with a local charity to turn the local homeless into 4G wireless hotspots.
The company provides selected individuals with a branded T-shirt marketing the hotspot and promoting the brand, a …