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  • Is your TV watching you?

    Published August 06, 2013

    What if someone were watching you in your PJs on your couch, scarfing down Fritos with the kids? Such a scenario is now the stuff of fact, not fiction.

  • Three for the road: Fitness gets in gear

    Published July 31, 2013

    While "Star Trek" tricorders are still a few years away, a welter of fitness related gadgets have been entering the market now, from sports watches to gimcracks for smart phones.

  • A glimmer of hope for your privacy?

    Published July 24, 2013

    Courts have ruled that law enforcement may not simply track citizens with GPS devices in their cars without first obtaining a warrant from a judge. Could that legal decision pave the way to better privacy protections concerning cell phones and other devices?

  • The best waterproof phones for butterfingers

    Published July 17, 2013

    Like oil, electronics are not supposed to mix with water. But a growing array of smart phones is designed to handle the rough and tumble realities of people using their handsets on the beach and in the bathroom. And thank goodness for that.

  • Who's losing the e-book war? You

    Published July 11, 2013

    Is it a good thing that Apple lost its battle to fix prices on e-books? Yes. Is it going to make life better for readers and publishers? No.

  • Power to the travelers

    Published July 04, 2013

    Cell phones have obviously never heard of the Engerizer Bunny. At least that's how it feels when you're traveling and crawling on your knees for outlets at the airport, or duking it out for adapters in the car.

  • Sorry, cellphone: Why landlines still rock

    Published June 26, 2013

    Certainly cell phones, Internet calling, texting and other forms of digital communication are more flexible and more efficient, but the plain old telephone service has two major advantages.

  • Technology is creating the surveillance state

    Published June 19, 2013

    Technology is making your every move--perhaps even those movements you make in the bathroom--ready for broadcast. The question is, are you ready for it?

  • Could revelations about NSA spying make us less secure?

    Published June 11, 2013

    No matter where the debate about freedom, democracy and the Constitution goes from here, the leaked information concerning the National Security Agency's various secret surveillance programs including Prism is going to have some immediate fallout.

  • How is the NSA accessing your data on Google, Facebook and more?

    Published June 07, 2013

    Net companies have long been monitoring the data that covers a person's entire life: e-mail, financial info, health-related searches, family members, and mroe. It represents a level of surveillance that was never possible before. And the government may be reading it. But how?