Google, and its unofficial slogan, Don’t be evil, may be calling it quits in China due to repeated cyber-attacks that the company says originated within China’s borders. The attacks were reported to target up to 34 companies total, including Adobe Systems and other technology firms based in the U.S according to today’s Wall Street Journal.

Google’s Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, made it clear in the company’s official statement that the attacks were deliberate, complex, and specifically targeted email accounts of human rights READ MORE

It doesn’t quite roll off the tongue like the ubiquitous, “I googled you.” But in the quest to define the differences between a helpful Google search and Bing by MSN, we “binged” READ MORE

Three weeks ago, Ted Koppel was the guest speaker at a luncheon at The Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. He was taking all the listeners on a trip back over 40 years ago to the Vietnam War, and how his news coverage made the journey into the homes of Americans. After interviews and footage was shot, it was taken to a nearby READ MORE

Back in the 1980’s it was considered avant-garde to have a “car phone,” and it was a car phone since it was the size of a large brick, or required a suitcase to actually make it mobile. Flash forward to 2009, and we are on the verge of a mobile marketing extravaganza. In 2008, 140 million “smart phones” were sold, as defined by phones with Internet capability. In 2010, READ MORE

In the last posting here at Obu, we wrote about the proliferation of data in the Internet Age. In this entry we will outline what a small business needs to know in order to make sure the “bases are covered” for their data and the data they collect from their customers.

The data tide is turning, and President Obama has announced the creation of a new post of “Cybersecurity Czar.” While we hope READ MORE