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Mike Murphy Mike Murphy (213 Posts)

Mike Murphy is a web producer at the Mercury News, and also writes for Good Morning Silicon Valley and 60-Second Business Break.


Oops, Google Glass too invasive for shareholders’ meeting

Turns out, consumer privacy advocates and casinos aren't the only ones concerned with the invasive nature of Google Glass. Google itself is barring the wearable computers that can take pictures and record viedo at the blink Read More →

Security alert: iPhone hack, Facebook malware, cyber-espionage and more

Feeling insecure? Then brace yourself, because when it comes to tech security, it's already been a long week: • You can't even trust plugs anymore: Researchers say they've found a way to hack an iPhone through its charger. Forbes' Read More →

Quoted: Apple to appeal iPhone, iPad ban

“We are disappointed that the Commission has overturned an earlier ruling and we plan to appeal. . . . (Samsung has) admitted that it’s against the interests of consumers in Europe and elsewhere, yet here in the United States Samsung Read More →

Off topic: Geek or nerd? OK Go, ‘Always Sunny’ and cool Lego cars

Geek or nerd: Which are you? Use this equation to find out. (I think that's a equation; sorry, I'm not a math nerd.) Can OK Go just keep going on making awesome music videos forever? Please? Read More →

SpongeBob, Dora move from Netflix to Amazon

Netflix's loss is Amazon's gain, at least in kids' programming. Just days after the Los Gatos-based video-on-demand company let its streaming-video rights with Viacom expire, Amazon announced Tuesday a $200 million exclusive licensing deal for hundreds of popular Viacom Read More →

Quoted: The case against Apple

“The publishers needed a facilitator and a go-between . . . a company large enough to give the publishers the confidence that their conspiracy would prove successful. And that company was Apple.” -- Lawrence Buterman, Justice Department attorney, in Read More →
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