Author: gyasistory

By Colleen Taylor “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” entrepreneur and technologist Jeff Hammerbacher once said, paraphrasing Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in a sadly truthful characterization of the modern day tech industry. The thing is, a lot of people who work in advertising-fueled tech products have…

By Sarah Perez A company known as Zip Phone is making it easier to place secure, Wi-Fi enabled phone calls, in order to save consumers from using up the limited number of cellular minutes that come with their smartphone’s voice plan. That’s a more common problem outside of North America where unlimited calling plans are…

By Peter Dickinson Last month major corporations and household names such as Evernote, TweetDeck and Feedly were held ransom by Internet hackers. Many found this concerning, but even more serious is that some businesses may not realize how highly vulnerable they are to such an attack. What if it were your building that was held…

By Alex Wilhelm Microsoft has a number of upgrades coming for Windows 8.1 on the 12th, but the company today announced in a blog post that the new features and tweaks don’t constitute an ‘Update 2′ to the operating system. Update 1 to Windows 8.1 was a large release, improving the boot preferences of the…

By Greg Kumparak It seemed inevitable, but the day has finally come: Justin.tv, the life streaming service that birthed (and was quickly overshadowed by) the game broadcasting service Twitch, has closed its doors. From here on out, their focus is solely on Twitch. At one point, Twitch was but a video category on Justin.tv, meant…