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Kanye West talks a big game, but he's backing up the promise he made on Twitter to release a sci-fi short film on seven screens.Meanwhile, A woman in India decided to divorce her husband based on his Facebook status, while in the U.S. a hapless Facebook user found his status "liked" by an unexpected number of people.Steve Wozniak signed on to […]
Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) stock started trading for $38 a share, giving the company around $16 billion on opening day. Here's why you should care:1. It Will Affect Your PrivacyFacebook is an enormously popular website, but how will it translate that popularity into money for investors? The social media giant's biggest asset is its wide collectio […]
Apple and HTC's legal battles are heating up again, and the excessive litigation is hurting HTC's strategy to compete while raising questions about patents and the U.S. legal system.HTC's recent phone models, the HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE, have both been delayed indefinitely in the U.S. due to a patent investigation by U.S. Customs on Apple […]
The theft of about 780,000 online medical records by unknown hackers from state computers in Utah is sounding alarm bells about the protections of sensitive data.Last month, hackers stole the data of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients and participants from Utah's Children's Health Insurance Program, including the Social Security numbers o […]
Eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia are notoriously difficult to treat, with technology's speed and reach both complicating treatment and offering solutions.A Difficult Problem, Complicated by the InternetEating disorders are among the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses, with an estimated 24 million Americans suffering from anorexia, bulimi […]
Verizon will soon move all customers with unlimited data plans into tiered options, marking the true end of unlimited data on its network.The Score is a weekly column scoring controversial events in the mobile industry. Want to get to the point? We'll break it down and give you the score.The Setup: When Verizon decided to go with tiered data plans last […]
Some frequent fliers may delight to hear they can use their phones in-flight, while Iranians can't see the Persian Gulf on Google and they're less than pleased about it.Facebook sugar daddies are surprisingly elusive creatures, and now that Eduardo Saverin may be banned from the U.S., there's slimmer pickings.Meanwhile, Steve Jobs became a chi […]
New media is giving cable stations problems, as viewers flee to online alternatives, but ESPN's mobile apps and online presence offer a model for traditional media to transition into the future.Media-Mind is our column charting how technology's opportunities and challenges transform traditional media and entertainment, for better or for worse.The w […]
At the Google I/O conference today, Google unveiled the first hardware to run its Chrome operating system from PC manufacturers Samsung and Acer, dubbed Chromebooks. The long-awaited Chrome OS differs from operating systems you're probably used to from Microsoft and... […]
I'm currently visiting my Mom's home in Portland and had to do some heavy-duty uploading and downloading of files from my Dropbox account, and it seemed to take forever. After a bit of investigating, I was satisfied that there wasn't... […]
Today's smartphones and tablets are marvels of hardware engineering with increasing power from one generation to the next. But really, apps are what make the device. And a new app--whether it be for fun, productivity, or location sharing--can completely transform... […]
No longer a whisper of rumor and conjecture, the iPad 2 got introduced by Steve Jobs this week with a thinner, more lightweight design, new dual-core Apple A5 processor, not just one but two cameras for video chats (front-facing) and... […]
While it's still up for debate whether 2011 will be The Year of iPad 2, Apple's iPad sequel has certainly been the talk of the gadgetosphere and beyond this week (trumped only, perhaps, by the antics of one Mr. Carlos... […]
It's been 1 year, 1 month, and 3 days since Apple first revealed its iPad love to me and the rest of the world, and created a tablet-crazed mobile electronics landscape that has spawned strong competition from Android-based tablets like... […]
Well, not all the rumors panned out (primarily the one about an SSD boot drive for OSX), but the new MacBook Pro lineup arrived as many expect on Thursday of this week, complete with Intel "Sandy Bridge" processors as well... […]
Spotted briefly a few weeks ago, the rumored free streaming video service for Amazon Prime subscribers has become reality today with the introduction of Amazon Instant Video. If you're a paying Amazon Prime subscriber (which provides free two-day shipping for... […]