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"that the data is coming from an app with permission to track phone GPS data. That could either be a legitimate app that has been compromised, or a purpose-built malicious app that was uploaded online. As anyone who has used a GPS navigator knows, location data can be used to roughly calculate your travel speed. The emails ask for payment of the speeding ticket, but no apparatus is set up to receive such fines. Instead, a link that claims to lead to a photo of the user's license plate instead loads malware onto the user's device."

eople who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they're conditioned to succeed in that environment. One of my own frustrations when I was in college and grad school is that you knew the professor was looking for a specific answer. You could figure that out, but it's much more interesting to solve problems where there isn't an obvious answer. You want people who like figuring out stuff where there is no obvious answer.

opened up its various analytics tools to the public, giving everyone access to in-depth data about the people and brands wh

MTS. MTS is.

The Datastore API enables you to sync your app's structured data. Datastore API syncs data quickly, manages conflicting changes, and even works offline.

Some tech startups are using your online social data to determine your creditworthiness. Choose your Facebook friends wisely; they could help you get approved -- or rejected -- for a loan. A handful of tech startups are using social data to determine the risk of lending to people who have a difficult time accessing credit.

The Winnipeg.js group is having an event at Canadian Tire's sweet new data centre. Apparently the folks at the data centre have been planning to help build the user group community in the city.