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  • Will listeners heart Apple iRadio?

    Published April 03, 2013

    The rumor mill is heralding the introduction of Apple radio this summer -- but it may be too little, too late.

  • Cars that squeal (on you)

    Published March 27, 2013

    Just when you thought it was safe behind the wheel of your large automobile, government attorneys are trying again to monitor your movements.

  • Four for the road: Spring travel gadgets

    Published March 19, 2013

    When you're traveling, it's the little things that count. With spring arriving this week (snowstorms notwithstanding), our attention turns to vacation plans and travel. That also means, dead batteries and cranky children. Here are four small gadgets than can help you avoid both.

  • Harvard teaches new lessons in privacy

    Published March 13, 2013

    Even some of the smartest people can be really dumb about technology. To wit, the recent hubbub at Harvard University over the scandalous, surreptitious searching of academia's finest's e-mails.

  • ISPs become big brother, monitor your traffic

    Published March 05, 2013

    Last week, the Copyright Alert System was officially launched. Created by the recording and film industry, it essentially deputizes copyright holders who stealthily monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal sharing of movies, TV shows, and music. 

  • Big Brother? US linked to new wave of censorship, surveillance on web

    Published February 27, 2013

    Even the most open, democratic governments -- including the U.S. -- have been led to initiate laws and new forms of surveillance that many groups see as a new wave of censorship.

  • Android, iPhone? Nope. The new battle is to be number 3

    Published February 26, 2013

    The big news from the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona this year isn't the fight to be number one in the market or even number two. Google and Apple have already nailed down those positions. No, the battle over the next 12 months is going to be for the number three spot.

  • Head tech for the ski slopes

    Published February 21, 2013

    The best technology in the world won't help you if you refuse to use it. Fail to put a password on your phone, and someone is going to steal your personal information. Fail to buckle up, and in an accident you're going to suffer for it. The same goes for hitting the slopes where helmets still aren’t ubiquitous.

  • Special report: censorship in cyberspace

    Published February 13, 2013

    The global reach of the Internet was supposed to democratize information and improve the lives of millions. But as the sophistication of the World Wide Web has spread, so too have the tools of despotic regimes and other political groups to suppress freedom.

  • The day the muzak (didn't) die

    Published February 13, 2013

    With the digital revolution, the drumbeat of failing music-related businesses has been a constant rhythm for several years now. So when it was announced last week that the Muzak brand was retiring, it was hardly a surprise. However, it turns out that the Mantovani of music isn't as moribund as many of us thought.