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ACLU Study Highlights U.S. Surveillance Society
Welcome to the surveillance society. That's what the American Civil Liberties Union concluded Tuesday with a report chronicling government spying and the detention of groups and individuals “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights." The report, Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity, surveys news accounts ...
Verizon iPhone Coming in January?
The rumor that won't die about the phone that never seems to lose adoration flared up again Tuesday. Apple's iPhone could be available on Verizon Wireless in January, according to a report in Bloomberg. Hopes that Apple's coveted smartphone will break from the shackles of its exclusive U.S. agreement with AT&T have percolated in the form ...
New Startup Launches Simple Website Builder for Musicians
Canadian startup Sayvee.com has just launched a simple and easy way for musicians to create a professional website without the need to be a geek. Kelowna, BC, Canada - - Not often do you find a technology company with a lot of personality. Sayvee is changing that by turning the heads of their biggest competitors with ...
What if Youd Bought Apple Stock Instead of the Product?
That new iPad is tempting. But what if you put the money in Apple stock instead? A UC Berkeley computer science student has produced a spreadsheet showing what the return on investment would have been. If the past is any guide, it might be more profitable to buy Apple shares instead of Apple products. For example, ...
Netbook Apps Reinvent the Wheel
Apple reinvented the phone as something like a computer, spawning the app something like software, except that its designed more for a specific device rather than for a class of devices, and can be subject to a single companys approval process. With the iPad - and presumably, the Android tablets that will mimic it - Apple ...
Hewlett Packard Pays $30m for Music Streaming Service Melodeo
Is HP Music In The Cloud Coming Soon? Just as when Apple recently bought Lala.com, yesterday's purchase of music streaming service Melodeo by computer giant Hewlett Packard points straight towards a cloud based media offering. But unlike Steve Jobs, HP executives were not so silent: “Melodeo is one of the only companies which possess the ...
Broadband Availability to Expand
The Obama administration is seeking to nearly double the wireless communications spectrum available for commercial use over the next 10 years, an effort that could greatly enhance the ability of consumers to send and receive video and data with smartphones and other hand-held devices. President Obama will sign a presidential memorandum on Monday that aims to ...
Got an iPhone 4 and Want to Try FaceTime? Just Call 1-888-FaceTime
One of the iPhone 4's most heralded new features is FaceTime video calling. For the time being, however, this only works for calls from one iPhone 4 to another, so if you don't know anybody with an iPhone 4, you can't really test it. Thankfully, though, Apple just set up a phone number for you to ...
ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups
The association representing 380,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists and others associated with the music industry has begun a fund-raising campaign to stifle groups that support free culture and digital rights. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is urging the membership to donate money to battle the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge and even Creative Commons. ...
10 Stellar iPad Apps That Will Blow You Away
The iPad is less than three months old, and already programmers have whipped up 9,000 apps for the fancy tablet. But, just as with the iPhone, there's a problem: Its hard to navigate the App Store for quality wares because its just too crowded. Right before the iPad launched and after it came out, we rounded ...
