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Amy says it all started when her husband seemed to know intimate details about her friends. “He would drop snippets into conversations, such as knowing about Sarah’s baby. Really private things that he shouldn’t have known about. If I asked how he knew these things, he’d say

At an event at Microsoft’s flagship store in London, Panos Panay, the chief product officer for the Microsoft Devices group, admitted that the company is using Android in its upcoming Surface Duo phone because, quite simply, the “best OS for this product is Android”. It’s a noteworthy admission, as

With new-age social media apps cementing their position among the top five most downloaded apps globally, a remarkable behavioural shift can be observed in the way millennials spend their time online. Though, it’s too early to profess if such apps will be able to emerge as a strong contender

Software will eat the world. That’s what they say, but IoT is inherently not only software. When it comes to looking at hardware startups, or even products, you need to look at a lot of moving parts. Potential investors need to look at hardware in a very

Break out of the coding prison DEPOSITPHOTOS ENHANCED BY COGWORLD ABCs and 123s—letters and numbers are some of the first things we learn—even before we enter school. We’re taught to recognize, memorize, understand, and eventually manipulate them to communicate and persuade. These characters reveal their greatest value

Toby Daniels is the founder of Social Media Week, one of the world’s premier conferences and industry news platforms for professionals in media, marketing and technology. I first met him when I spoke at Social Media Week (SMW) in New York at NASDAQ. Although I actively avoid Times Square with a

In a world ruled by social media, posting a wrong status update has sometimes even turned out to be fatal. There have been reports where a post on something as simple as a relationship status change has resulted in suicide, especially among teenagers. People have also faced arrest for

For more than a year, a company called Corellium has been offering hackers a virtual iPhone. For a price, you could summon up a virtual iPhone on your computer, changing the model or iOS version through a simple menu tab. Now, Apple is suing to shut that

The $17.5 million investment made in Swiss-based Teralytics AG was done via the utility’s venture capital investment arm Innogy Ventures. Teralytics is building a platform which leverages telecom network data to provide advanced mobility analytics. The platform uses data science and machine learning algorithms to help cities

Social media has ushered in a new era of accountability in which ordinary people are emboldened by smartphones and social media to document the world around them, from the events they witness to the lived experiences that define their lives. At the same time, ubiquitous cameras and the pursuit