Skyway West Recommended July 15th to July 22nd
Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, kind of a Digg-lite for those who live where we do (British Columbia, Canada), work like we do (high speed business internet), and think like we do (internet trends, internet privacy, cutting-edge technology, etc.). If you don’t want to wait ’til Monday, we usually tweet and link to these as we come across them…
NY Times: That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker.
THE device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone — guess again. It is a tracking device that happens to make calls. Let’s stop calling them phones. They are trackers. Most doubts about the principal function of these devices were erased when it was recently disclosed that cellphone carriers responded 1.3 million times last year to law enforcement requests for call data. Read More…
IT World Canada: Microsoft Office 2013 fires shot at Google’s enterprise push
Microsoft puts its cloud-based Office 365 and SkyDrive front and centre with the announcement of Office 13. It has to, says one analyst, to compete with Google’s online suite of tools. Read More…
Enterprise Call Recording: Changes to Skype Enable Wiretapping
The well-known and beloved Skype (News 
– Alert), one of the more popular VoIP applications out there, was, up until recently, used without the fear of others listening in. Its peer-to-peer encrypted connection allowed it to serve as a “safe” platform, until Microsoft (News –Alert) replaced user-hosted P2P supernodes with Linux grsec systems. Read More…
NY Times: Russian Legislators Approve Greater Government Control Over the Internet and Nonprofits
MOSCOW — Russia’s upper house of Parliament moved to strengthen controls over the Internet and nonprofit organizations on Wednesday, prompting a warning from the United Nations human rights chief that the Kremlin is sliding back into Soviet ways. Read More…