Articles by Judy Mottl
Don't Name New Human Infectious Diseases After Animals Or Places, Says WHO: Here's Why
Infectious disease names such as bird flu and monkey pox don't do the disease or the consumer much good, says a world health group. They also can taint the species and bring about negative repercussions.
EO Smart Connecting Car 2 Is The Answer To Your Parking Nightmare
Not only does a German prototype vehicle move sideways to grab those elusive parking spots—it can also shrink itself down if necessary to fit into a spot.
Fathers Shirk Housework Once Kid Is Born: Reason Why It's Harder For Women To Become Business Leaders?
Perception and reality of what new fathers do in terms of housework and childcare is quite different, reveals a new report that indicates the extra house and parent workload for new mothers may lead to side-lining of the career and ultimate work achievements.
CHIP Is The Worlds First $9 Computer: 1GHz Brain, 512 RAM, 4GB Storage, Wi-Fi, And More [Video]
If you loved Raspberry Pi, you'll love C.H.I.P. even more. It's the cheapest, but most powerful micro computer arriving on the scene and it's got a tremendous supporting fan base already.
210 Zappos Employees Opt To Leave Rather Than Have No Managers And Titles: What's Holacracy?
Online shoe seller and Amazon subsidiary Zappos is moving to a no-management employee strategy. The business approach is prompting a whopping number of workers to take advantage of an opt-out offer rather than work without the traditional business management structure.
Facebook Study On How Users Are Insulated From Political Opinion Receives Flak From Academics
Academics are fast falling in line to question the transparency of a new Facebook study. Data scientists from Facebook wanted to know how online networks influence exposure to users' perspectives that 'cut across ideological lines.'
Ericsson Hauls Apple To European Courts Over Royalty Payments Row
The legal battle over patent use could be a lucrative win as Ericsson may be entitled to $240 million to $725 million in annual royalty patents.
Photobucket Hacking Software Developers Arrested, Charged With Conspiracy And Fraud
The FBI is indicting two men for a slew of fraud charges related to creating an app that gave unauthorized users access to password-protected user data, images and videos on Photobucket.com.
Guild Wars 2 Cheater Handed Out A Humiliating Virtual Death: Lesson? Don't Cheat! [Video]
A public humiliation of a malevolent player that wreaked havoc for weeks in the ArenaNet game has some gamers questioning whether such a drastic action is worthwhile as it could spur other hackers into action. As some players relate most cheaters typically don't have a high moral standard.
Uber Bids For HERE Mapping Service For $3 Billion
The ride-sharing service has jumped into the pool of interested buyers for Nokia's service. It's clearly going to be a battle given all the big names that want to own the service and the data.
BlackBerry And T-Mobile Kiss And Makeup To Make BlackBerry Classic Cool Again
The feud between business enterprise smartphone player BlackBerry and the Un-carrier T-Mobile is over, and T-Mobile will be pushing out the BlackBerry classic to its customers next week. BlackBerry CEO John Chen is even willing to don a T-Mobile t-shirt.
Verizon Will Pre-load Lyft To Select Android Devices
Verizon partners up with Lyft in what may well be a big win-win for both the ride share service and the number one U.S. wireless carrier, given the increasing popularity of ride share service.
$150 Million: Amount Google Will Spend To Increase Workforce Diversity
Google outlines its four-prong strategy to diversify its workforce after it was revealed last year that Google, like many tech giants, is mostly a white male-dominated business.
Woohoo! Nintendo Is Profitable Again After Four Years
Not only did Nintendo hit profit for the first time in four years, this year will mark its entry, finally, into the smartphone app and mobile game segment.
T-Mobile Woos New Customers With Never Settle With Verizon Campaign (And It Might Just Work)
The battle for the wireless consumer is once again hot and heavy between T-Mobile and Verizon now that T-Mobile has kicked off a new marketing campaign that aims to pull Verizon's customers to T-Mobile.
Secret Message On Online Pizza Order Saves Florida Mom And Kids From Hostage-Taker
An eagle-eyed Pizza Hut chef spotted a plea in the 'Comments' area of the online order form that said: 'Please help! Get 911 to me.'
This Is How Comcast Plans To Improve Its Horrible Customer Service: Add 5500 New Jobs
The Internet service provider aims to shore up everything from customer support to simplifying billing in order to make customers happy. It plans to spend $300 million to hire more staff, build new call centers and provide better service.
Not Optimus Prime But Daimler's Self-Driving Truck Is Just Amazing [Video]
That big rig barreling down the highway may just be operating on autopilot or, as Daimler describes it, in autonomous operation.
Android 5.0 Lollipop Now Running 9 Percent Of Active Android Devices
Android 5.0 Lollipop is heading for a milestone in June, given its increasing Android device saturation rate. It could nearly double next month, with a slew of imminent update activity.
Meerkat Ditches Twitter, Flirts With Facebook
Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin has to be more than a bit relieved that his live stream video app is being warmly embraced, at least for now, by social network titan Facebook. Meerkat's first love, Twitter, dumped the service after creating its own competiting app, Periscope.
Obama Talks Retirement With David Letterman During 'Late Show' Guesting [Video]
President Barack Obama and talk show host David Letterman spend one last time together on national TV before Letterman leaves his popular late-night gig.
Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Speaks Out About IoT And Pitfalls Of Encryption 'Back Doors'
The Father of the Internet is pushing users and website operators to move onto the latest IP address form, IPv6 and pushing back against federal agencies that contend they should have a backdoor to websites for investigative needs.
Samsonite Partners With Samsung To Create Smart Luggage: No More Lost Luggage
Two industry leaders, Samsonite and Samsung, hope to make lost luggage a thing of the past. The idea will use GPS and a computer chip to keep track of luggage.
Facebook Opens Internet.org To Developers: How Can You Participate
Facebook wants to bring the Internet to emerging and rural areas, such as India, and hopes developers get on board to help. There are, however, some rules to follow.
Media Center Not Coming To Windows 10
Microsoft decides to eliminate Windows Media Center from its upcoming Windows 10 OS citing it was past its prime and not worth the money to include and not a big feature with users any longer. But not everyone is happy about the news.
10 Million: Number Of Dust Mites Sharing The Bed With You
Bed and dust mites may be the reason you're sniffling from what you may think are allergies. But it could be "sick bed syndrome" and while not lethal, it's clearly not healthy.
AT&T, CenturyLink And Other Telecom Industry Groups Seek To Block Reclassification Of Broadband Internet
As expected, the federal government's move to reclassify the Internet isn't going to happen without legal challenges and the first throw-down is coming from two big names and a group of supporting players in the telecom industry.
Mozilla Makes New Firefox Features Available Only To HTTPS Sites: Good Move But A Premature One
Mozilla is taking Internet security seriously with some bold steps that could prove a boon in gaining user base.
Reason Why Microsoft Bought Minecraft: HoloLens
Microsoft's intentions regarding its $2.5 billion acquisition of 'Minecraft' are coming into clear focus. So is its rapid development of HoloLens, a virtual augmented reality headset it's hoping puts competitors in its 3D dust.
German Magazine Vangardist Prints Cover Using HIV-Positive Blood
The conversation now surrounding the 'Vangardist' is not about eliminating the deadly AIDS/HIV virus as much as it is about the provocative publishing approach.
