Social Media's Troubling Terrorist Infestation

For individuals, social networking means sharing small moments and major events in life. For businesses, social media marketing can help build brands. For terrorist groups such as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, social networks increasingly are the tool of choice for delivering messages of hate and recruiting new members to their cause. ISIS has exploited Twitter to send out propaganda on a regular basis, according to a Brookings Institute report, and attempts to shut it down have been unsuccessful for the most part.

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At $60K, Nokia's Ozo VR Camera Is Priced Right for Pro Filmmakers

Nokia this week revealed its Ozo virtual reality camera system. Priced at $60,000, it will ship in the first quarter of 2016. Nokia is clearly targeting a market a tier or two higher than the segment YouTube and GoPro have set their sights on with the Jump VR platform, which is about a fourth of Ozo's launch price. While its price may be too high for many YouTube content creators, it's low enough for studios that previously may have been hesitant to embrace VR because of the cost of equipment.

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Sluggish Download and Install Subtract From Netrunner's Pluses

The Netrunner Rolling 2015.11 version is a disappointing release. It seems sluggish and unimpressive right from the start. Linux Picks and Pans last reviewed Netrunner in 2013 and gave it five stars. This was the standard Netrunner edition built upon Kubuntu, Ubuntu's KDE desktop version. The Netrunner Rolling edition, released in 2014, is based on packages from the Manjaro distribution. The desktop in the rolling edition released last month is KDE Plasma 5.4.2, with many applications and libraries updated to their latest versions.

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Google Updates Android for Web Lite

Google on Monday announced an update to Data Saver mode in Chrome on Android designed to make loading Web pages on a slow wireless connection easier. The update will remove most images when loading a page on a slow connection, reducing data consumption by up to 70 percent, Google claimed. After a page has loaded, users can tap to show all images or just the ones they want. Chrome users in India and Indonesia will get the update first. It will be rolled out elsewhere in the coming months.

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'Tis the Season for Online Predators

While visions of holiday shoppers dance in retailers' heads, those visions are also on the minds of online marauders. Net predators are sticking to scams that have made them money throughout the year. "Over the last 12 months, we've seen a return to attachments with innocuous macros in them," said Kevin Epstein, vice president of advanced security and governance at Proofpoint. "Macro attacks are a sort of Back to the Future moment." Unlike macro attacks in the past, though, these are sophisticated, multistage sorties.

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Losing Headphone Jack Would Allow Thinner, More Functional iPhone 7

Apple intends to peel the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack from the next version of the iPhone, according to a new rumor. Dumping the jack reportedly would allow Apple to shave a millimeter off the thickness of the unit. Without it, headphones would have to be connected to the phone through Bluetooth or Apple's proprietary Lightning connector. Apple introduced Lightning headphone specs last year, but few headphones have entered the market. When the iPhone 7 goes on sale, Apple may include earbuds with a special Lightning connector.

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Top 10 Open Source Developments of 2015

Open source is driving an ever-expanding market. The notion of community-driven development is a growing disruption to proprietary software controlled by commercial vendors, and the free open source software concept has become a major disruption in industry and technology. Open source is so pervasive that people tend to overlook how it's the glue of modern communication and enterprise business models. "Some essential open source projects are used everywhere but rarely get much of the glamour treatment," said Markus Rex, CEO of ownCloud.

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