Let us list the great innovators of our most recent century: In fiction, James Joyce; in popular music, John Lennon; in film, Stanley Kubrick; in pornography, Ron Jeremy; in frozen food, Hot Pockets; in screen savers, the 3D maze with the brick walls that you travel through; in reality television shows, “The Mole” with Anderson [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Many U.S. cellphone users say they have decided not to use an app on their phone because of concerns about privacy. More than half of Americans who use apps say they have decided not to install one once they found out how much personal information they’d have to share, according to [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The languages and the cultures are different, but the pet peeves of mobile technology users around the globe are the same, with most people annoyed by receiving too much information, according to a poll released on Wednesday. About 60 percent of adults and teenagers in eight countries said too much is [...]
Forget information overload. What you’ve got is information just-right-load. That’s the conclusion reached by a trio of researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, who interviewed 77 people in seven focus groups in an effort to understand the new media consumer’s psyche and ability to adapt to the barrage-of-information age. Contrary to many experts’ [...]
A group tied to the hacker collective Anonymous claims to have hacked into an FBI agent’s laptop and revealed more than 1 million numbers used to track Apple mobile devices. In a post on the file-sharing site Pastebin, the hackers, who go by the name “AntiSec,” said they broke into a laptop back in March belonging [...]
Withings has introduced a new set of wireless bathroom scales to spare us sedentary geeks the effort of recording our weekly weigh-ins. The updated set includes Position Control technology, which we assume means it tells you to stand up straight and suck your belly in while it’s sending your details to the internet. All you need is a [...]
If you found yourself on the wrong network for Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Stellar smartphone, consider this: The Galaxy Victory. This little slab was leaked to Android Central recently, sporting similar specs to Verizon’s upcoming budget device. Like its cousin, the Victory appears to have a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a TouchWiz flavored serving of Ice Cream Sandwich and a 4-inch [...]
TOKYO, Aug 31 (Reuters) – A Tokyo court ruled on Friday that Samsung Electronics’ mobile devices did not violate an Apple Inc patent involved in synching mobile devices and computers, awarding the South Korean maker a victory a week after it lost a bruising landmark patent case in the United States. In rejecting Apple’s suit, [...]
Aug 31 (Reuters) – Shares of Facebook Inc fell 4.5 percent to a new low on Friday after brokerages cut their price targets on the company’s shares, saying several lock-up expirations over the next year will weigh on the stock. Early investors got the green light to sell Facebook shares for the first time on [...]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Apple and four major publishers have offered to allow retailers such as Amazon to sell e-books at a discount for two years in a bid to end an EU antitrust investigation and stave off possible fines, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. The EU antitrust watchdog opened an investigation [...]
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