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Cellphones Now Used More For Data Than For Calls
She taps out her grocery lists, records voice memos, listens to music at the gym, tracks her caloric intake and posts frequent updates to her Twitter and Facebook...
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Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
How angry is the world at Facebook for devouring every morsel of personal information we are willing to feed it?
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FCC Proposes New Rules on Internet Access
The FCC proposed an approach to regulating broadband Internet service on Thursday (May 6) that would reclassify the transmission component as a basic utility...
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FCC Push to Regulate Broadband Is Expected
The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, will try to regulate broadband Internet service despite a recent court ruling...
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The Data-Driven Life
Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we...
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Privacy Concerns Limit Online Ads, Study Says
Privacy advocates have had an impact on Madison Avenue after all, according to a new study.
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Shoppers Who Can
It’s called behavioral tracking: Cameras that can follow you from the minute you enter a store to the moment you hit the checkout counter, recording every T-shirt...
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Cash, Check or Charge? How About Cellphone?
You win a bet, but the loser does not have enough cash on him to settle it. If he has a credit card, and most people usually do, there is finally a solution. AeBay...
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For Web
Mark Brooks wants the whole Web to know that he spent $41 on an iPad case at an Apple store, $24 eating at an Applebee’s, and $6,450 at a Florida plastic surgery...
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Apple Removes Teaching App From App Store, and Educators Complain
Apple generally makes news by publishing new apps, not by unpublishing them. But last week, it made some educators upset when it removed an app, Scratch Viewer,...
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Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System
New details have been disclosed about information stolen in the attacks on Google's computers announced in January. The losses included a password system that...
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Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell
For decades, shoppers have taken advantage of coupons. Now, the coupons are taking advantage of the shoppers. A new breed of coupon, printed from the Internet or...
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Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing
This year, Netflix made what looked like a peculiar choice: the DVD-by-mail company decided that over the next two years, it would move most of its Web technology...
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At Internet Conference, Signs of Agreement Between U.s. and Russia
Security specialists from eight countries met at a Russian-sponsored conference on Internet security to discuss their differences on how governments view cyberspace...
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Researchers Trace Data Theft to Intruders in China
Canadian and United States computer security researchers have monitored the spying operation of a China-based computer espionage gang for the past eight months...
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Iphone App to Sidestep At&t
For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to shake up an entire industry. It can save you money. It can make calls where AT&T’s signal is weak,...
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Academic Paper in China Sets Off Alarms in .s.
Wang Jianwei, a graduate engineering student in Liaoning, China, who was described as a potential cyberwarrior before the United States Congress this month, says...
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An Express Lane From Camera to Computer
Intel is developing the Light Peak fiber-optic link, cable technology that will transmit 10 gigabits of data per second bidirectionally, and is expected to scale...
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Telling Friends Where You Are (or Not)
As Jordan Viator roams the conference rooms, dimly lit bars and restaurants here at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, she often pulls out her cellphone...
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