After a two-week test drive of Rdio, Mog and Amazon.com’s Cloud Drive, the conclusion: Such “cloud” music services offer a valuable alternative to Apple’s dominant iTunes-iPod digital music platform.
Troy Wolverton writes about how to turn on anti-tracking features in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome, which can be complicated to activate.
Larry Magid looks at the various mobile-payment systems out there, from those that use NFC technology to text messaging to those offered by Square and Intuit.
Chris O’Brien writes about a new book by Bay Area author and security analyst Robert Vamosi, “When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of our Infatuation With New Technologies.” The message: that we should be very worried about the technology that pervades our daily lives, from the wireless router at home to our car to our smartphones.
The Justice Department will allow Google to proceed with its $700 million purchase of travel search company ITA Software — but only with a detailed set of modifications to the original deal.
Mercury News interview: Google principal engineer Matt Cutts, who is in charge of fighting “spam” attacks by websites trying to dishonestly boost their ranking on Google.
Tech firms have wolfed down big chunks of office space in Silicon Valley and San Francisco lately, and that has prompted some smaller firms to shift operations to Newark.
