A High-Tech Parable: California Uses GPS to Track Parolees, Then Ignores the Data
California installed a GPS-powered parolee monitoring system to better watch sex offenders and gang members, and then didn't act on tens of thousands of alerts.
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Hungry for BP Litigants, Law Firms Flood the Web with Phony Sites
Law firms around the nation are hungry to get in on the $20 billion fund BP created today to pay for claims relating to its oil rig disaster. The hard part is finding clients. So many firms are employing a clever web trick, creating a torrent of boilerplate news sites to fool search engines and driv...
At E3, Nintendo 3DS Makes iPhone Gaming Look Like Yesterday's News
Evidently Nintendo (NTDOY) was serious when it said its enemy wasn't Sony (SNE) or Microsoft (MSFT), but Apple (AAPL). It seems to have given up the homefront to focus squarely on the mobile with its new Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming system. Let's look at the stats: 3D display: Developed by Sha...
Apple and AT&T Get Buried by iPhone Pre-Orders -- How Predictable [Update]
AT&T and Apple should have anticipated the rush of orders for the iPhone 4. However, they have become victims of their own belief in their market dominance. Unfortunately for them, it's no longer true.
Hackers Jail Break Apple's Security Image
The exploit that reveals email address for 114,000 iPad users that had AT&T as a carrier has badly damaged Apple's security reputation.
With Verizon and Facebook Partnerships, Skype Positions Itself for App World Dominance
While Apple toys with video calling, Skype is busy reinventing the telephone call -- and the rewards will be huge.
Facebook's New Privacy Problem: Partners and Guilt by Association
Facebook risks guilt by association as third party applications use the site to deliver individually-targeted marketing.
Starbucks Offers Free Wi-Fi -- Would You Like Some Digital Media With Your Latte?
Starbucks needed to offer free WiFi, but is experimenting with an interesting suite of content on top of this new feature.
Smaller Smartphones: A Market Ready to Explode
In a world of ultra-capable tablets, who wants a big smartphone?
Yahoo Sells Out Login Page -- Plus Its Heritage, Users, and Business
Yahoo (YHOO) has decided to go big time -- big time cashing in, that is. The company will now make its login page available to advertisers. Granted that the revenue will be good, maybe even great, but it's a desperate act that highlights how wrong the company has gone under turnaround CEO Carol Bart...
Geopolitics and High Tech: Big Surprises Await in Afghanistan and North Korea [Updated]
Afghanistan and North Korea become technology players, putting the high tech industry into geopolitics.
Performance Anxiety: Sony's Fear of Porn Blocks Potential PlayStation Profits
Sony (SNE) lost the BetaMax versus VHS battle more than two decades ago because it wouldn't tried to keep porn off the VCR. some thirty years later, it is reportedly making the same mistake again with the PlayStation 3. The company has marketed the PS3 as a mature machine for adults, but behind the ...
Apple iPhone 4's Super Display and the Law of Unintended Bloat
The high resolution "retinal" display on the Apple iPhone 4 will have an unintended consequence of image and app bloat and will require app and web developers to work differently.
How Yahoo and Microsoft are Gaming the Search Market, and Why it Will End
The tricks Microsoft and Yahoo have used to grow their search market share are about to end.
Bad Strategy: At E3, Microsoft and Sony Put Nintendo On the Defensive
Nintendo (NTDOY) is headed to a crisis point on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, America's largest video game conference. It is still the number one video game company, but past successes, dated technology and lost loyalties are deteriorating the lead. First, from Tom Ivan at ED...
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