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Google Nexus 7: A Missile Aimed Directly at Amazon's Kindle Fire
When Google rolled out the specs of its new Nexus 7 tablet Wednesday at Google I/O, I was impressed. Aside from a few limitations, it looked like a pretty deluxe piece of gear. Then I heard the $200...
View ArticleGoogle Glass Horror Stories From Your Privacy-Free Future
Call me paranoid, but I think Google Glass is scary.Sergey Brin's live demonstration of Google Glass at the Google I/O Conference last month clearly showed that wearable, always-on, Web-connected...
View Article28 Pieces of Computing Advice That Stand the Test of Time
Technology never stops moving foward. Hardware gets faster, and operating systems gain new features and (we hope) finesse. This is natural computing law.But just because computers are one big exercise...
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Computing Advice That Can Stand the Test of Time
Technology never stops moving foward. Hardware gets faster, and operating systems gain new features and (we hope) finesse. This is natural computing law. But just because computers are one big...
View ArticleFingerprints Everywhere! Are We Ready for 4 Million Dirty Windows 8...
When multitudes of Windows 8 users start playing with newly purchased hardware in the coming weeks and months, they'll encounter an indignity that once afflicted only smartphone and tablet users:...
View ArticleIs Google Your Next Cable Company?
When Google announced last summer it was building a fiber network in Kansas City, it was easy to believe that Google Fiber was just an experiment.But Google has recently announced it's building a...
View ArticleAT&T Stands to Make $2.5 Billion Over the Next 5 Years From New...
The Verge is reporting that AT&T has sneaked another fee into the phone bills of its 70 million or so postpaid wireless customers. The fee, called a "Mobility Administrative Fee" adds another 61...
View ArticleParsing PRISM Denials: Could Everyone be Telling the Truth?
A day after The Washington Post and Guardian published bombshell revelations that America's biggest tech companies are allowing the U.S. government to constantly monitor highly personal data contained...
View ArticleU.S. Consumers Not Buying Web Advertisers''Relevance' Argument for Tracking
Marketers and advertisers constantly say that their practice of tracking us as we move around the web is a good thing because it lets them present us with more relevant ads and site content. But a new...
View ArticleLicense Plate Scanning: The Inside Story of a Cop Who Tracks our Data
When the ACLU released a report Wednesday describing widespread license plate scanning of cars on America's roadways, everyone from privacy advocates to Sunday drivers felt their basic rights of...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Internet! Here Are Your Lamest Lifetime Moments
It all began on October 29, 1969, when a host computer at UCLA sent a few packets of data to another host computer at Stanford. The plan was for Leonard Kleinrock, who oversaw the ARPANet lab at UCLA,...
View ArticleGoogle to Big ISPs: Fiber is Good for You
Lest you're holding on to any belief that big ISPs like Time Warner and AT&T care the least bit about making available the best technology at a fair price, just look at the situation in Austin,...
View ArticleGoogle Fiber Fever Spreads: L.A. Now Plans City-wide Gigabit-fast Network
The city of Los Angeles board of supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to send out a "request for proposal" (RFP) to ISPs for the build of a massive new fiber-based network that would bring 1...
View ArticleTomorrow's News Today: The Biggest Tech Stories of 2014
I write one of these "Tech Trends of 20XX" stories every year. For me, it's as big a part of the holidays as theA Yule Log. I can remember some years when the big predictions for the next year were...
View ArticleCourt's Smackdown on Net Neutrality Could Hit You Right in the Pocket
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down most of the FCC's 2010 Open Internet Order on Tuesday, rejecting the FCC's power to impose and enforce network neutrality rules on Internet Service...
View ArticleAT&T Stands to Make $2.5 Billion Over the Next 5 Years From New...
The Verge is reporting that AT&T has sneaked another fee into the phone bills of its 70 million or so postpaid wireless customers. The fee, called a "Mobility Administrative Fee" adds another 61...
View ArticleParsing PRISM Denials: Could Everyone be Telling the Truth?
A day after The Washington Post and Guardian published bombshell revelations that America's biggest tech companies are allowing the U.S. government to constantly monitor highly personal data contained...
View ArticleU.S. Consumers Not Buying Web Advertisers''Relevance' Argument for Tracking
Marketers and advertisers constantly say that their practice of tracking us as we move around the web is a good thing because it lets them present us with more relevant ads and site content. But a new...
View ArticleLicense Plate Scanning: The Inside Story of a Cop Who Tracks our Data
When the ACLU released a report Wednesday describing widespread license plate scanning of cars on America's roadways, everyone from privacy advocates to Sunday drivers felt their basic rights of...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Internet! Here Are Your Lamest Lifetime Moments
It all began on October 29, 1969, when a host computer at UCLA sent a few packets of data to another host computer at Stanford. The plan was for Leonard Kleinrock, who oversaw the ARPANet lab at UCLA,...
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