Thursday, October 13, 2011 For Apple fans juggling iPads, iPhones and Macbooks, Apple's iCloud, which launched Wednesday, offers the chance to simplify their digital lives by linking email, calendars, music and photos from multiple devices.
But while iCloud promises convenience, experts say it raises potential security and privacy concerns inherent in storing data in the cloud: If one account is hacked or one device is stolen, others could be compromised because they are linked in the cloud. And cloud providers control that information, which they could hand over to marketers or law enforcement. BLOG POSTS  | Porter Gale: Can Social Media Save Amit Gupta?
Amit, a member of the San Francisco tech community, has leukemia. He is also South Asian, a population that is dramatically under-represented in existing bone marrow registries. |  | Fred Wilson: What We Are Seeing
The Wall Street Journal has a story out today that says "Web Startups Hit Cash Crunch." There has been a fair bit of reaction in the tech blogs and I thought I'd toss into the discussion some things we are seeing. |  | Belinda Parmar: Get a Grip... on Your Phone
What is the relationship between women and their phones? And what can this tell us about how women engage with technology? |  | Sister Mary Ann Walsh: The Church Should Embrace Social Media, for Dialogue's Sake
Social media has a place in the 21st century church, though some oldsters may have to be drawn into it, collars, veils, rosaries and lapel crosses askew. |  | Linda E. Brooks Rix: USAJobs: Help Not Wanted, But Desperately Needed
One year behind schedule and nearly $20 million spent this year alone, the Office of Personnel Management couldn't come close to engineering a smooth launch of its USAJobs 3.0 platform update on Wednesday. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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