As I’m writing this the Daytona 500 is under a red caution flag due to a bizarre accident. Juan Pablo Montoya’s #42 car malfunctioned under caution and hit a massive race track jet dryer directly in the fuel center, causing a large fire on the track. Both the racer and the driver of the...
My first reaction upon hearing about Nokia’s 41-megapixel 808 Pureview was that it was an absurdity, a perfect example of the very worst of consumer electronics, and a total miss. But the more I read, the better I understood that this phone isn’t just some freak of nature with a ridiculously high number attached...
Report: Facebook Read Users’ Text Messages It may have upset you to find that Path and Twitter were uploading your phone’s address book to their servers, but another high-profile web firm has admitted to snooping around on your phone. Facebook admitted to accessing the text messages of people using their smartphone apps while testing...
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson looks like Cliff Clavin, who is upside down in this picture because we are unhappy with him. See Also More Hints That Google+ Is A Deserted Wasteland Facebook’s IPO Could Earn The State Of California $2.45 Billion How To Turn Off All Those Annoying Facebook Email Notifications This is galling....
For the most part, I’m with my colleague, Dan Rowinski: track me all you want, just don’t think we won’t catch you if you do something wrong. I don’t think Google’s new privacy policy is a big deal. All browsers worth their salt make it very easy to either block cookies or go totally...
en.wikipedia.org See Also Andy Rubin’s Pickle! Google Is Hiring Engineers To Test Its Self-Driving Cars Here Is One Of Google’s Self-Driving Cars On The Road Google+ may have 90 million registered users, but they’re not spending much time at the site. We’ve been seeing and reporting statistics about this since last summer. Anecdotally, it...
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Barcelona, home of the Mobile World Congress. The world’s biggest telecommunications show is occurring right now in Barcelona, with telecom vendors, carriers and other gear makers showing off devices, boxes and new industry standards. But amid the latest phones and technological breakthroughs are a burgeoning class of services that show some operators and gear...
Loic le Meur via Google+, with permission See Also The Secret Startup Trick Google Should Use To Launch Its New Goggles Here Is One Of Google’s Self-Driving Cars On The Road Ex-Googler: New York Googlers Were Treated Like ‘Red-Headed Step Children’ By Mountain View Google is hiring engineers to design and test the self-driving...
If you’re not familiar with the legal battle between Apple and Chinese company Proview over the trademark for the name ‘iPad’, it’s a pretty interesting read. Our latest post on the matter sums up the dispute well, but some interesting details were revealed today in an Proview press release and summarized by Fortune’s Philip Elmer-Dewitt. What...