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President Obama unveils cybersecurity push in tech industry’s backyard – Fortune

President Obama unveils cybersecurity push in tech industry’s backyard – Fortune.

The president signed an executive order to encourage more sharing of information between companies about hacker attacks.

It may be Friday the 13th, but the White House is hoping a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection will bring a bit of much-needed luck to the gloomy cyberthreat landscape.

The summit kicked off Friday morning at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. and featured a who’s who of leaders from both public and private sectors: the secretaries of Homeland Security and Department of Commerce and the CEOs of Apple, American Express, Kaiser Permanente, AIG and Pacific Gas & Electric, to name a few.

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Free NASA sounds (MP3s and ringtones) – Boing Boing

Free NASA sounds (MP3s and ringtones) – Boing Boing.

NASA offers a terrific collection of free MP3 sound files and M4R ringtones, from astronaut quips and greetings to the explosive liftoff of rockets to Sputnik’s pulsing beep.

What’s the Apple Watch Good For? | MIT Technology Review

What’s the Apple Watch Good For? | MIT Technology Review.

When Apple unveiled the first iPad in 2010, many pundits scoffed. Among the gripes: tablet computers had been tried before without success; most people already had laptops; and wasn’t it just a giant iPod Touch?+

The market, as we know, reacted differently. Tablet computers are now a hit—thanks in no small part to Apple’s savvy design, which offered people something that was instantly comprehensible and easy to use, but also flexible enough to suggest thousands of new applications.

Now Mobile friendly

I just switched to a mobile-friendly WordPress theme on the suggestion of a Google-bot. The site now switches auto-magically between Desktop, Pad, and mobile sites.

Thanks Jolene Blue

http://wpblogs.ru/themes/jolene/

Apple Is Basically a Small Country Now – The Atlantic

Apple Is Basically a Small Country Now – The Atlantic.

It’s good to be Apple. Really good. As of this week, in fact, $700 billion worth of good. Apple’s closing price of $122.02 per share on Tuesday made it the first American company ever to cross that market-cap threshold.

Apple is also now selling bonds in Switzerland, which is probably a smart way for the company to buffer its ginormous pile of cash. (As The Wall Street Journal points out, this means Apple can use proceeds from debt sales to reinvest in itself without getting taxed the way it would if it used money brought back from overseas.)