Apple Releases iPhone 4S
Apple consumers began lining up Friday morning for a chance to purchase the technology giant’s latest innovation, the iPhone 4S. While the device closely resembles the iPhone 4, which Apple released...
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Steve Jobs’ Legacy of Innovation
Steve Jobs, a man who played a pivotal role in defining the future of home and business computing, died Wednesday at the age of 56. Part of Jobs' legacy is a...
Facebook Attends to Further Privacy Issues
Facebook continues to be the subject of controversy over issues of privacy, this time because Facebook cookies were found to be accidentally tracking other sites users visited after they had logged...
Fed Plotting to Monitor Critics, Tailor Propaganda
The Federal Reserve is seeking contractors to build a tool that will monitor and analyze blogs, news reports, and social-media chatter about the central bank and its policies, with a goal...
“Government Motors” To Track Drivers With OnStar, Sell Data to Police
The navigation company OnStar is attracting strong criticism after announcing this past week that it would continue to monitor drivers’ speeds and GPS locations — and sell the information to third...
Facebook Announces Increased Privacy Protection
In the wake of criticism over privacy issues on Facebook, the social network has responded by indicating it will make significant changes to its site in order to protect individual privacy....
Technology Keeping Internet Freedom Ahead of Censorship
Efforts by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet may become irrelevant if the new technology being developed succeeds as expected. When the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
After Bilderberg Meeting, Facebook Official Says End Internet Anonymity
After attending the Bilderberg conference in Switzerland in June, Facebook’s marketing director, Randi Zuckerberg, announced that she had solved the cyberbullying issue: Prohibit anonymous Internet activity. ...
Government Funding Down; Scientists Experiment With “Crowd-Funding” Websites
In recent decades such a large portion of scientific research has been funded by governments, either directly or through government-funded universities, that most people can scarcely imagine a world in which...
Apple Pulls Anti-Israel App.
Apple has honored a request from Israel to pull a free iPhone application from its online store that the Israeli government said incited violence against the Jewish state. The Arabic-language app.,...
Facebook to Launch Its Own iPad App
Facebook for iPhone is the most-downloaded iPhone app ever, but more than a year after Apple introduced the iPad, there is still a notable lack of an official Facebook app for...
I.B.M. Releases New Graphene Circuits
I.B.M. researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications, from high-bandwidth communication to a new generation of low-cost...
Federal Govt Has Recruited One-Fourth of U.S. Hackers as Informants
The FBI and Secret Service have successfully infiltrated the underground world of computer hackers in the United States, and now 25 percent of these hackers are — for fear of a...
Service Versus Surveillance: Has Computer Technology Outpaced the Legal System?
First, the short version: Privacy? "Fuggedaboudit!" You can encrypt your messages, lock your laptop and password-protect your various accounts till your fingers fall off. You can purchase “gee-whiz” software packages to...
Privacy Concerns About Apple’s iPhones and iPads
Apple, Inc. finds itself amidst controversy once again, this time provoking the criticism of privacy watchdogs which are demanding an explanation as to why its iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting...