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A Clash Over the Airwaves
NY TIMES By EDWARD WYATT LAS VEGAS — Dropped calls. Maps that take eons to load. Echoing voices on a mobile phone. And, as iPhone users know, the dreaded “Cannot Open Page.“ Those annoyances are likely to get worse, as airwaves that carry cellphone signals and wireless Internet connections grow ever more crowded. The Federal … Read more
Show Us the Data. (It’s Ours, After All.)
NY TIMES By RICHARD H. THALER “NO one knows what I like better than I do.” This statement may seem self-evident, but the revolution in information technology has created a growing list of exceptions. Your grocery store knows what you like to eat and can probably make educated guesses about other foods you might enjoy. … Read more
How to Unmask the Internet’s Vilest Characters
NY TIMES By EMILY BAZELON In June 2009, Lani (a nickname) got a Facebook message from a stranger alerting her to nude photos of herself that had been posted on a Web site called Private Voyeur — along with her name, her workplace and the city she lives in. The post, titled “Jap Slut,” was … Read more
iPhone, iPad tracking causes alarm
By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO – Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple about why iPhones and iPads are collecting location data about their users. The most recent dust-up, prompted by a report at a technology conference in Santa Clara, Calif., raises questions about how much privacy consumers surrender by carrying … Read more
Need Help Finding the Perfect Domain Name? Try Panabee
By Jolie O’Dell, Yahoo News Panabee is a simple, useful tool for finding great domain names. In an increasingly crowded Internet — and a crowded general marketplace where one’s company name and URL are often one and the same — this seemingly simple task poses more problems for entrepreneurs and SMBs than one might imagine. … Read more
Bump App Becomes a Surprise Hit
By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — On the first day of business school, David Lieb walked around the room, exchanging phone numbers with his new classmates, typing each one into his mobile phone. Thus began his light-bulb moment. What if this tedious task, he thought, could be done effortlessly via a mobile app? … Read more
Google’s Rapidly Rising Expenses Crimp 1Q Earnings
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Google is helping the economy and hurting its stock. The company is hiring so many employees for projects outside its thriving search advertising business that its expenses are growing much faster than its revenue. The strategy came into sharper focus in Google Inc.’s first-quarter earnings report released Thursday. Higher costs spooked … Read more
Iran blames US, Israel for Stuxnet Computer Worm
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – A senior Iranian military official says experts have determined the United States and Israel were behind a mysterious computer worm known as Stuxnet that has harmed Iran’s nuclear program. Gholam Reza Jalali says investigations by Iranian experts show that Stuxnet originated from the U.S. state of Texas and Israel. Jalali heads … Read more
Cisco Plans to Shut its Flip Camcorder Business
NEW YORK (AP) – Cisco Systems Inc., one of the titans of the technology industry, on Tuesday said it is killing the Flip Video, the most popular video camera in the U.S., just two years after it bought the startup that created it. It appears to be a case of a big company proving a … Read more
