November 4, 2015 Carrier IQ Not Alone: Most Smartphones Will Track You Cell phone surveillance is all fun and marketing until they start following you -- and Carrier IQ isn't alone. We're all being followed to one degree or another by our fancy smartphones.
November 4, 2015 Local Radio Is Getting Tuned Out. Thanks, Internet Online services have wiped out innumerable businesses and forms of media. Are local radio stations next?
November 4, 2015 Neer: The First Location-Aware App for Grown-Ups The biggest tech boogieman today has to be location-based services, a.k.a. please-rob-me apps. But are they all really as creepy as they seem? Neer cuts the creep factor -- and proves surprisingly useful.
November 4, 2015 Microsoft Wants You to Wave Hello to the Future Remember the Clapper? Think of Microsoft's Kinect gaming device, which the company will release on Thursday, as a Clapper on steroids. And it could transform video games.
November 4, 2015 Free E-Books, With a Catch -- Advertising Another e-book reader price war may be in the offing as Barnes & Noble plans a mysterious announcement (new Nooks!) later today. But the real news in digital publishing may be a novel approach one company is taking to publishing the e-books themselves: Free books -- with advertising.
November 4, 2015 The iPod Is Dead, Long Live the iPod Nothing generates more rumors and speculation in the tech world than the anticipation of an Apple press conference. So tomorrow's annual Apple event in San Francisco is whipping up a whirlwind of gossip, ranging from buzz about changes to the iPod lineup to a new iPad to the possibility of a revamped Apple TV device.
November 4, 2015 Is the NSA's 'Perfect Citizen' the Ultimate Spying Tool? Could the NSA's new "Perfect Citizen" actually be used for spying on every citizen in the U.S.? And should the government really be in the business of installing sensors on the private power grid and at nuclear plants owned by private companies?
November 4, 2015 Is There Life Without Google? The Web 2.0 Expo kicked off in San Francisco Tuesday with a discussion that would be unthinkable without social media.
November 4, 2015 The Undiscovered Google: 7 Services You Need to Try Seven useful Google services you may not have tried yet, from a free phone number to a cool new way to peruse the news.
November 4, 2015 2009: The Year in Tech Windows got less annoying. Smartphones became smarter. The Internet continued to change entertainment for the better. All in all, it was a good year for technology and the folks who use it.
