Can Facebook Predict Suicide Risks?

Can Facebook Predict Suicide Risks?

Apple and Google having ‘lots and lots’ of meetings, getting along better, says Eric Schmidt

How Acceptable Was Anonymous Speculation About Snowden's Laptops?

It’s the story that just won’t quit: The tale of Edward J. Snowden and his leak of classified information about the United States government’s secret surveillance of citizens.

Rife with skirmishes and subplots, overflowing with schadenfreude, one-upsmanship and bruised egos, it’s also a matter of extraordinary national and global importance.

One of the latest developments is the question of whether Mr. Snowden – as was suggested in a Times article on June 24 – may have unwittingly provided classified information to China.

The Times article, the essence of which looked at the reasons that China allowed Mr. Snowden to leave Hong Kong, included this sentence about two-thirds of the way down: “Two Western intelligence experts, who worked for major government spy agencies, said that they believed that the Chinese government had managed to drain the contents of the four laptops that Mr. Snowden said he brought to Hong Kong, and that he said were with him during his stay at a Hong Kong hotel.”

Mr. Snowden denied that his laptops were compromised by the Chinese (or the Russians): “I never gave any information to either government and they never took anything from my laptops,” he said in an interview with Glenn Greenwald, the columnist for The Guardian who broke much of the biggest news over the past month as a chief recipient of Mr. Snowden’s information.

In that piece, Mr. Greenwald took The Times to task for printing that “incendiary” speculation.

How Acceptable Was Anonymous Speculation About Snowden's Laptops?

Report: Microsoft Helped the NSA Spy on Hotmail, Skype and Outlook

Report: Microsoft Helped the NSA Spy on Hotmail, Skype and Outlook

NSA docs boast: Now we can wiretap Skype video calls. Where are the warrants? What about the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

The Bush and now the Obama administration have shredded the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution    secretly.   But for Snowden we would not know about us.  He has done the American people a great service.  He may of done some harm.  We do not know that yet.  What we do know is that we cannot trust our government to abide by our constitution.

John H. Armwood


NSA docs boast: Now we can wiretap Skype video calls

Another Amazon victim -- this time it's Barnes & Noble's CEO

Barnes & Noble Chief Executive William Lynch has resigned, following the bookseller's long fight for a Nook tablet that rivals Amazon's Kindle.

It marks the departure of a tech-focused executive who rose to the company's helm from its online business, and puts more authority in the hands of Leonard Riggio, Barnes & Noble's chairman and biggest shareholder.

Through a wave of acquisitions, Riggio built the chain into the country's biggest bookseller, but the company has struggled to find its bearing as Amazon first undermined its traditional book business and then outgunned it on reading devices.

Microsoft will reportedly unveil major restructuring Thursday

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is expected to unveil a dramatic and long-awaited restructuring at the tech titan as early as Thursday, according to AllThingsD.

Ballmer is likely to realign the company around services (software) and devices, in both the consumer and business sectors. The CEO might have already laid the groundwork for that transition last year when he wrote a note to shareholders declaring that "this is really a new era for our company.

Is the long wait for the next Nexus 7 finally winding down?

It's been a year since Google debuted the Nexus 7, the first small Android tablet that actually represented a great value at as little as $199, and the wait for a successor with some much-needed upgrades is quickly rising to the top of my list of first-world problems.

Is the long wait for the next Nexus 7 finally winding down?