November 3, 2015 Apple loses e-book pricing lawsuit, but are consumers the real losers? 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.
November 3, 2015 Could revelations about NSA spying make us less secure? 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.
November 3, 2015 Harvard snoops through professors' email, teaches new lessons in privacy 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.
November 3, 2015 Tech hype vs. tech help: 3 must-have gadgets from CES 2013 Not all of CES was about gawking gadget giddiness. There was some practical news about products and services that could actually save you money -- and make your life easier too.
November 3, 2015 What I learned from Wikipedia's most popular articles of 2012 A ranking of popular 2012 Wikipedia articles in different languages offers a fascinating window on global trends around the world—and some anomalies.
November 3, 2015 Offbeat gifts for nice gamers What are the holidays without play days? And even if you can't play, at least you can give someone close to you games to play with.
November 3, 2015 6 tech gadgets that won't get regifted The coolest products aren't necessarily the latest models or the market leaders--or the most expensive digital doodads. The coolest gadgets are the ones you end up using the most.
November 3, 2015 On the Internet, no one (still) knows you're a dog From vengeful restaurateurs to online entrepreneurs who threaten unhappy customers to celebs paid to push products, it's getting so that you can't trust anyone online. Not that you ever could.
November 3, 2015 How to plan a digital, old-school, holiday road trip Making advanced, detailed plans for a road trip now seems like something from a bygone era. But there may yet be one last hurrah for mapping programs designed for those who like to plan ahead.
November 3, 2015 Between Google and GPS, privacy takes a step backward Earlier this week the Supreme Court ruled that the police must get a warrant to track an individual's car using a GPS device -- a step forward in protecting your privacy. Then Google announced changes to its policies that seemed to take two steps back.
