I was recently emailing with a dear friend who I only get to see about once every five years. Our visits are few and far between — not because we live in different cities (she is in New York and I’m in Boston) — but because we work in completely separate industries, and I suspect that we both suffer from the “I wish the week had 40 more hours” mentality. One day soon, I am going to buy a farm and work from home and send emails (or postcards) to friends inviting them to “come see the new lambs that were born last week.” Until then, I do whatever it takes to squeeze in as much time as I can with as many inspiring people as I know. And when I can’t be with them in person, I manage to keep up with their major and minor life events through social media. Last week, I logged onto Facebook and typed in this friend’s name, suddenly wondering if she was around as I began planning for a trip to Manhattan. When I couldn’t find her on my Friends List, my first thought was: Maybe she unfriended me? (My self-esteem is impressive like that.) A quick search of the entire Facebook and all of our mutual friends confirmed that this individual could not be found. She wasn’t there. She left. She got out.

from Forbes – Tech http://ift.tt/2bjO06D
via IFTTT

Apple has released an unexpected update to iOS which deals with something that is rare in Apple circles – a zero-day exploit of iOS that would allow a handset to be remotely jailbroken and run malicious code.

from Forbes – Tech http://ift.tt/2bT2VH3
via IFTTT

Meet NSO, the Israeli spy supplier that just got busted selling some of the most sophisticated iPhone hacking tools ever seen.

from Forbes – Tech http://ift.tt/2bKKtAM
via IFTTT

As I have often written here on Forbes — for a beat I have loosely defined the past, present, and future of citizen empowerment — the seemingly unstoppable phenomenon we call social technology is changing the way we need to think about lots of things.  One the one hand, it has empowered us; as ordinary citizens, we can do things today that at one time were the sole province of a few professionals. On the other hand, along with this privilege comes the responsibility of doing things you never had to do before.  Example: when social media first got the attention of marketing professionals (a little more than just a decade ago), many believed that they should start blogging, the most prevalent social-media publishing tool at the time, well before easier tools like Twitter came along.  What they did not realize is that blogging can be a burden. Not long after the first blogging land rush, many marketers began abandoning their projects. (The Web today is still littered with the remains of dead blogs.)

from Forbes – Tech http://ift.tt/2bmJrb5
via IFTTT

Exciting things are happening these days at the intersection of digital technology and financial services. The fintech startup ecosystem is thriving, thanks in part to an infusion of $14.5 billion globally in venture funding in 2015, up from $7.3 billion in 2014. Fintech companies are creating and rolling out a wide range of solutions that promise to impact nearly everyone, dramatically broadening the reach, flexibility, and level of innovation in financial services. In addition, technology is helping enable enormous progress in bringing financial services to the many people who have previously been excluded from the formal financial system.

from Forbes – Tech http://ift.tt/2bSTuHz
via IFTTT