Michelle Maisto

Twitter, which continues to struggle to find a balance between supporting free speech and empowering bullies and harassment, is planning to introduce new features that will give users control over what they see and whom they interact with, the company announced Aug. 18. In “the coming days,” Twitter plans to extend Notifications and a Quality […]

In the horse race that is the U.S. wireless industry, AT&T announced Aug. 17 that it was doing away with one of the greatest pain points in wireless: overage fees. Beginning Aug. 21, AT&T will offer Mobile Share Advantage Plans, which won’t charge customers for exceeding the data limit of their plan. The new offer […]

Apple has committed to building a research and development facility in China, a number of sources have reported. Apple CEO Tim Cook (pictured), during his ninth visit to China, met with senior government officials this week and promised to increase investment in the country. An Apple spokesperson said that the R&D facility will open this […]

SAP has been touting the benefits of Jam, its cloud-based business platform. Now, a study conducted by Forrester Consulting (on behalf of SAP) is confirming—and qualitating—Jam’s worth. Forrester surveyed 30 enterprise-size Jam customers and conducted interviews with five that have multiple years of experience with the product. What it found, SAP shared Aug. 16, is […]

You could use a smartwatch to control the music coming from your smartphone, zipped inside the bag on your shoulder. But how much less expensive, and more expressive, might it be to instead tap a temporary tattoo? The intersection of wearable devices and body art is the focus of a collaboration between Microsoft Research and […]

An extensive BuzzFeed profile puts the spotlight on Twitter’s decade-long policy of tolerating abuse and hate speech in the interest of supporting free speech. Some might say Twitter is exhibiting a blind deference to an open-ended definition of free speech. The issue is coming to a head because of recent high-profile incidents and because of […]

The Federal Communications Commission has lost its bid to overrule laws in North Carolina and Tennessee that prevent municipal broadband providers from expanding outside their territories. On Feb. 26, 2015, the FCC granted a petition to preempt the laws, calling them “barriers to broadband deployment, investment and competition” and a “conflict with the FCC’s mandate […]

“People are human,” said Patricia Fletcher, Solution Management with SAP SucessFactors, suggesting that in business, as in life, mistakes—sexist remarks, biased decisions—will be made. Such humanity has repeatedly been on display at the 2016 Rio Games. Viewers took to social media to call out an NBC sportscaster who remarked, after swimmer Katinka Hosszu set a […]

As cyber-defense becomes an increasingly integral part of our national security, military officials have recommended elevating the stature of the Pentagon’s Cyber Command Unit to a so-called “unified command,” putting it at equal ranking with other combat branches of the military and better preparing it to fight cyber-attacks and develop cyber-weapons. According to an Aug. […]

Pay-per-install (PPI) software may be the new bane of the security world. Seventeen Google engineers, along with Damon McCoy, an assistant professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and member of the International Computer Science Institute, studied the issue and have published an 18-page paper that they’ll present at the USENIX Security […]