Digital signatures are a legally binding way to affirm your agreement to PDF documents. They can include your name, your organization information, your e-mail address, and the date and reason you signed the document. Typically, though, digital signatures are cold, computer-generated text. For an extra touch of class or personalization, why not use your real handwritten signature in digital signatures?
From women’s activism in the gaming community to addressing the issue of street harassment, feminism made plenty of headlines in 2014, but what’s on the top of the agenda for the new year?
“It’s not your imagination that you’re on a fuller plane than you used to be,” says William J. McGee, the former editor-in-chief of Consumer Reports Travel Letter. “We’re looking at rates that we have not seen since the airlines were troop carriers during the Second World War.”
Microsoft’s Skype software will start translating voice calls between people today. As part of a preview program, Skype Translator makes it possible for English and Spanish speakers to communicate in their native language, without having to learn a new one. It sounds like magic , but it’s the result of years of work from Microsoft’s research team and Skype to provide an early working copy of software that could help change the way the world communicates in the future.
He cites a new study by White Ops (an ad fraud detection firm) that shows “11 percent of traffic purchased may be fraudulent, actually traffic generated by bots (a software application that runs automated, repetitive tasks such as pinging websites
Emil Michael, Uber's SVP of business, reportedly suggested during what he thought was an off-the-record dinner with influential members of the media, that Uber could spend $1 million to hire "opposition researchers" to dig up dirt on journalists critical of the taxi startup. He later apologized "unconditionally" for his comments and stressed that Uber would never do that.
The Internet exploded in empty rhetoric Monday over Barack Obama's Congress-short, six years late endorsement of "net neutrality," an issue that will likely continue to go nowhere fast despite the president's full-throated tone.
People trust Google less than they trust the National Security Agency (NSA). At least according to the results of a survey which asked how upset respondents would be if certain entities gained access to their personal data. Survata questioned 2,566 Americans aged between 13 and 44, and the results are somewhat surprising.
Now, a coalition of businesses and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a lawsuit (PDF) challenging the anti-revenge-porn laws. They've picked Arizona as their battleground. One of the lead lawyers on the case, Michael Bamberger, told the National Law Journal that Arizona's law is "probably the most egregious," because it has no requirement that the images even be malicious, and it could include images taken in a "commercial or public setting."
The implications of Apple’s new mobile payment system are starting to sink in.
Apple's market share for the iPhone slipped year on year to just 11.7% of the entire market, while Android's market share increased to 84.7%.
Why should it be easy to take down Guardians of the Galaxy and impossible to delete stolen nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence? Congress needs to change the law to force Reddit and 4Chan to do the right thing.
Labor Day was created to supposedly honor the American worker but was passed in record time in 1887 by a Congress and president with a guilty-conscience.
Even as Google and Microsoft were chopping prices on their consumer-oriented file share and storage products, Dropbox held steady. CEO Drew Houston told conference attendees a few months back not to expect Dropbox to meet those cuts — the thinking being that customers would pay more for Dropbox’s vaunted ease of use, etc., etc.
The employees and customers of one supermarket chain have shut down a grocery empire, thwarting corporate greed, and demanding the reinstatement of an ousted CEO. Not one labor union has been involved. From top level managers, with the exception of two replacement CEOs, down to teenage baggers the entire labor force (including truck drivers, warehouse workers, and more) is united, and they’ve encouraged their customers to boycott the stores. Customers have voted with their feet as well, maintaining that boycott for nearly one week, at a store much less expensive than competitors, but bringing back receipts to hang on the windows, showing exactly where their hard earned dollars are going.
It was 17 million, making June's 1.4 million sales part of the best month since July 2006 when it wasn't quite clear that we were headed right off a fiscal cliff.
In other words, the Online Competition And Consumer Choice Act would reinforce the original principles of net neutrality by treating all data packets that travel across the internet equally — at least between consumers and their internet provider.
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