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Acxiom Corp: Some are saying it’s the The ‘faceless organization that knows everything about you’ When you think of the surveillance state, what comes to mind is usually government agencies like the FBI, IRS, DEA, NSA, or TSA, . But there’s a company you’ve probably never heard of that “peers deeper into American life,” and […]
Over the years, Apple has become almost as well known for the tight control it imposes on its innovations as for the tech and marketing genius behind them. If you buy an iPhone in the U.S., for instance, Apple makes you use AT&T as your carrier and it requires you to buy any new applications from its App Store
First, a disclaimer: unlike some of my tech-pundit peers, I don’t claim to be uncannily prescient.
Nokia’s Stephen Elop certainly has a way with words. In February, in what might have been the most brutally honest corporate memo in decades, the recently installed CEO compared his company to an oil worker trapped on a burning drilling rig, facing a terrible choice
iPhone gives Europe extra hour of sleep Late to work this morning? Forget those excuses about traffic jams and Halloween hangovers. You might be able to blame your iPhone. Reports from Europe suggest a bug in the iPhone’s alarm app caused it not to adjust to Daylight Saving Time in that part of the world. […]
Dr. Gwenn Schurgin O’Keeffe, a pediatrician who is a member of the academy’s council of communications and media, said the group is continually reassessing its guidelines to address new forms of “screen time.” “We always try to throw in the latest technology, but the cellphone industry is becoming so complex that we always come back […]
THE bedroom door opened and a light went on, signaling an end to nap time. The toddler, tousle-haired and sleepy-eyed, clambered to a wobbly stand in his crib. He smiled, reached out to his father, and uttered what is fast becoming the cry of his generation: “iPhone!” The iPhone has revolutionized telecommunications. It has also […]
South Korea’s average ‘Net speed plunges 24%, iPhone blamed In the course of three months during 2009, South Korea’s average Internet connection speed dropped by a dramatic 24 percent. Think about the magnitude of the decline here: one of the world’s most wired countries suddenly sees its overall Internet speeds reduced by a quarter over […]
Controlling Mars rovers: there’s an app for that What if, instead of pocket-dialing, you could pocket-send-a-Mars-rover-over-a-cliff? That was the goal of two programmers at EclipseCon 2010 (via Slashdot). A competition at the conference asked developers to either create an e4-Rover client or use one to move a demo robot over a model Mars landscape. Two […]
A mushroom cloud of thick dark smoke hovered over the Puerto Rican capital after a blast ripped through a fuel storage complex near San Juan early Friday and caused a massive fire.