Pocket Porn with Your iPhone
NEW YORK (AP) – It’s a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn’t take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist. … Read more
App Privacy Violations?
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Your smart phone applications are watching you – much more closely than you might like. Lookout Inc., a mobile-phone security firm, scanned nearly 300,000 free applications for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and phones built around Google Inc.’s Android software. It found that many of them secretly pull sensitive data off users’ phones … Read more
Hulu App
NEW YORK (AP) – Hulu, the popular website with TV shows, now comes as a subscription-based application for iPhones and iPads. Although it isn’t perfect, it works well enough that it may make you wonder if the TV’s reign as the center of family life is coming to an end. Instead of gathering to turn … Read more
Univision to Settle Payola Charges
THE CHARGES: The Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission accused Univision Radio stations and their employees of accepting secret cash payments to give more frequent airplay to artists with Univision Music. JUSTICE SETTLEMENT: Univision Services Inc., which ran Univision Music at the time, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud … Read more
E-Books vs. “Real” Books
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New Government Rules Allow Unapproved iPhone Apps.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally unlock their devices so they can run software applications that haven’t been approved by Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced Monday. The decision to allow the practice commonly known as “jailbreaking” is one of a handful of new exemptions from a … Read more
India Unveils Prototype of $35 Tablet Computer
MUMBAI, India (AP) – It looks like an iPad, only it’s 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011. If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux operating system-based computer would be the latest in a … Read more
Can We Talk?
The New York Times July 16, 2010 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN On July 7, CNN fired its senior editor of Middle East affairs, Octavia Nasr, after she published a Twitter message saying, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah,” one of the most prominent Lebanese Shiite spiritual leaders who was involved … Read more
Consumer Reports Not Recommending iPhone 4
SEATTLE (AP) – Consumer Reports said Monday it will not recommend Apple Inc.’s newest iPhone because of reception problems caused by its antenna design. After the iPhone 4 went on sale in June, buyers started complaining that holding the gadget a certain way could cause reception to fade and calls to drop. Apple has said … Read more
Web Over Mobile Devices in America
NEW YORK (AP) – When it comes to accessing the Web over mobile devices, Americans are far behind their Internet-connected counterparts in Japan, South Korea and parts of Europe. “We are a third-world country where mobile is concerned. The rest of the world is using mobile phones underground, to pay for a parking space blocks … Read more
