After a wave of initial shock at the revelations about NSA surveillance, there seems to be a pervasive feeling of resignation about our data being collected by the government. Have we grown too used to being spied on? Read more »
For aspiring Quantified Selfers who don’t want to bother with additional hardware, Noom has launched a new smartphone-based pedometer app. Read more »
OpenStreetMap shows off the last eight years of crowdsourcing map development in a series of striking images. Read more »
Four years after it launched at our Mobilize conference, Waze is finally sold to Google for about a billion. It certainly was a windfall for its early investors. And one surprising one! Read more »
Google wants more marketshare in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service market, so it’s cutting prices on the BigQuery data-analysis service and adding features to boost the appeal of the larger Cloud Platform. Read more »
Is iTunes not your media player of choice? No problem: You may have another option soon only this one will be in the browser. Google has added iTunes as a default destination for local media files usable by Chrome. Read more »
The last year has been a whirl of inconsistent Apple ads. While the company’s longtime agency is still adjusting to life post-Jobs, the ad Apple showed at WWDC shows Apple’s messaging getting back to what it does best. Read more »
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts showed off some of the company’s new tech and explained how Comcast is responding to changing viewer expectations. Read more at paidContent »
Are you overwhelmed with the possibilities available for music streaming? This quick graph breaks it all down. Read more »
Executives at this year’s annual Cable Show are trying to figure out their industry’s future. The technology for delivering faster broadband is ready, but the business model of the future isn’t. Read more »
Comcast showed off a 3Gbps connection and 4K video delivery Tuesday at the Cable Show, but how realistic was that demo? On the broadband side, we have our doubts. Still, that is one fast connection. Read more »
After months of rumors that speculated the company was the target of an acquisition by either Facebook or Google, social-mapping provider Waze is set to be snapped up by Google and added to the web giant’s map service. Read more »
Cloud-based business software can save significant energy, according to a new report from Berkeley Lab. To prove this the researchers built a model that crunches the data around the cloud and energy. Read more »
Despite the hype, one size does not fit all when it comes to data analytics in the cloud. Here are two companies using the cloud — one using the public cloud, one using a private cloud — to solve specific business problems. Read more »
iZettle will start offering its credit card reader to its U.K. banking customers. That gives iZettle another key distribution point as it waits for Square and PayPal to challenge it in Europe. Read more »
One of the announced features in iOS 7 that Apple didn’t get to discuss is one you’ll like to use, particularly if you hop between Wi-Fi networks. It’s called Wi-Fi Hotspot 2.0 and it makes it seamless to roam on Wi-Fi. Read more »
A storage startup called SageCloud is looking to deliver low-cost backup storage to the masses who want Facebook-like cold storage without resorting to tape, cloud services or building their own gear. Read more »
Missed E3? Here’s the need-to-know stuff about consoles and gaming from Day 1 at the expo. Read more »
The Sprint board is kicking Dish to the curb, saying the company has yet to submit an “actionable” offer, but it is giving Dish another week to come up with something better. Read more »
The 2013 US Open Golf Championship is happening this week, and golf fans can once again follow key moments live online. Read more »
Doubleclick, an ad service owned by Google, published new findings that suggest the online video ad market is rapidly becoming bigger and more diverse. Read more at paidContent »
Simple.tv wants to improve its service with new apps for Roku and iPad, and the company is also looking to add live TV to online video platforms powered by Rovi. Read more »
Dell is building a Red Hat-OpenStack cloud foundation to attack the $20 billion or so of the government’s IT budget that is expected to move into the cloud. Read more »
28msec is about to exit stealth mode and take the covers off its database platform that lets users query data from any source in real time. Read more »
In this webinar, we’ll examine concrete steps businesses can take to reclaim understanding and control of their applications and users after the initial download and how to apply the same business logic that has guided their web-based efforts. Join GigaOM Research and New Relic on June 26. Read more »
Startup InternMatch has raised $4 million in a Series A round meant to help the company build out its engineering team. Read more »
If you were interested in making a purchase on Twitter or Facebook through Chirpify, you might start to see lower prices on the service, as the company replaces PayPal processing with its own system to reduce fees for sellers. Read more »
Vine is probably the best we’ve seen in mobile video-sharing so far. But as good as Vine is, the technological limits of mobile networking still haven’t quite caught up yet, and creating a consistent user experience for video is shaky. Read more »
VMware sees an opportunity to help customers get a hold on unstructured data to understand what’s going on with their infrastructure. Its new Log Insight software will let companies do that. Read more »
Updated: A narrow majority of Americans surveyed are okay with the government gathering data (or metadata) on our online activities, according to new Pew Research. Read more »
Developers playing with the previews of Safari for iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks have discovered the inclusion of Russia’s leading search engine as an option in some countries for the first time. Read more »
In a brief debate on Tuesday, all major groups in the Parliament expressed either concern or outright anger at the PRISM program and the way it treats EU citizens’ data. Read more »
11 companies from the most recent Y Combinator batch will recieve funding from FundersClub, a new model for venture capital that found a good deal of interest in funding those companies. Read more »
Cyber threats are now a critical issue affecting the national security of nation countries worldwide. At the same time, the IT world is witnessing a wave of new innovation, and there are numerous business opportunities for technologies built around the emerging market sectors of mobile and cloud computing. These technologies and the companies creating with them will form the future of cloud security over the next several years. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Apple picked 11 best-designed apps of the year, on the iPhone, iPad and Mac, and announced them on the first evening of WWDC 2013. Read more »
The new iOS 7 operating system is a big departure from the current iOS 6, and it has sparked a big debate in the design community. While many hate it, there are some who think it was inevitable and opens up new vistas. Read more »
Sony’s new PS4 game console will feature a number of video apps, including Redbox Instant and Netflix, but the company is leaving it to Microsoft to try to reinvent TV. Read more »
Artificial-intelligence startup Anki got plenty of attention Monday during a demonstration of its Anki Drive car game for iOS devices. It pointed to the company’s intention to bring AI into daily life. Read more »
Comcast plans to crowdsource its Wi-Fi network, turning millions of home gateways into public hotspots. It’s a revolutionary, and probably controversial, move that could benefit its customers immensely — as long as it doesn’t pimp out their broadband connections. Read more »
WalmartLabs has acquired a predictive analytics startup called Inkiru to bolster its ability to create better customer experiences through data. The division of Walmart was created in 2011 on a foundation of big data. Read more »
