Mark Zuckerberg is rarely out of the news for very long. Yesterday Facebook’s head honcho made a public statement with respect to Muslims. One would assume that this is linked to Donald Trump’s recent comments: I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world. After the Paris […]
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Apple and President Obama Say: Use HTTPS for Everything
Why waste time figuring out whether you should use HTTP or HTTPS? These days there’s no reason not to encrypt – better be on the safe side! New versions of Apple’s mobile and desktop OS announced this week include a new feature called App Transport Security. It’s the first step by Apple in deprecating HTTP for developers. If you’re developing […]
The Interview Is Now Available Online (If You’re in the US)
The Interview is now available to stream online, but only if you’re based in the US. If you are in the US you can get full details of how to watch the movie here. At the moment you need a US credit card and IP address to be able to access the movie, but Sony […]
Obama Backs Net Neutrality
President Obama has come out with a clear message in favour of “Net Neutrality”. In a video published earlier today Obama uses similar language to other supporters of Net Neutrality and states unequivocally that he’ll be getting the FCC to assist him by making it illegal for any company to prioritise traffic or access to […]
Merkel to Obama: Did You Tap My Phone?
Der Spiegel reports that the German chancellor Angela Merkel phoned US President Barack Obama yesterday to express her concerns about reports that her communications may have been the target of US surveillance. The suspicions arise from the results of investigations carried out by Der Spiegel which the newspaper passed on to the German government. Germany […]
The US Government’s Shutdown Odd Impact on Websites
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last few days you’ll be aware that the US government has shut down. While a lot of reports have focussed on which services were impacted by the shut down several of the technology sites have been looking at online services. Ars Technica reports on the apparently arbitrary […]
Croatian Startup To Power US Presidential Debate Twitter Interaction
UX Passion hail from Zagreb, Croatia. They’ve got a couple of interesting and cool things in the works, but their flagship product has been up and running for the last year or two – Wall of Tweets. It’s been used at a lot of tech events around Europe over the last couple of years and […]