This week seems to be overflowing with good news. 

Many of us have returned from a fantastic cyber road-trip with Eric Haseltine. (The road trip was real; the topic was cyber!) If you were not with us in Boston or Washington, DC this week, stay tuned as Nancy Kleinrock prepares her recap of both cybersecurity events this week.  We’ll let you know when this will be available in our archive (along with 22 years’ worth of briefings on every topic and speaker that TTI/Vanguard has ever welcomed.  As a reminder, if you or a colleague would like help navigating the archive, please contact Claudia Miklas at cmiklas@ttivanguard.com).

While we are happy to finally be allowed to watch The Interview, it doesn’t mean that we want to. However, Interstellar has a 2 thumbs up review from the TTI/V movie critic. Steve Jurvetson and Ed Lu (both San Francisco, 2013) attended a special preview of Interstellar to benefit the Sentinel Mission:

The privacy-first smartphone, Blackphone (Jon Callas, London, Jul 2014), is being enhanced with, on the one hand, the ability to erect a wall between personal and professional uses with Graphite Software's Spaces and, on the other hand, the launching of its own app store that promises to include only apps that meet the phone company's strong no-snooping standards.