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A trio of gray wolves howl in unison. Smartphones may soon sound like this.
A trio of gray wolves howl in unison. Smartphones may soon sound like this. Obnoxious ring tones can annoy co-workers and anyone else in your vicinity. But when it comes to auditory aggravation, one company has an even grander idea:...
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Microsoft's Arc Touch Mouse flattens when stored and can be curved when needed for use.
When Young Kim was dreaming up his award-winning mouse, the industrial design manager for Microsoft found inspiration in an unlikely place: Crate & Barrel. The Arc Touch Mouse is a thin, black bar with a tail made of sueded silicone....
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In a paradoxical way, fixing a well-known software bug can expose users to worse attacks.
A strange thing happened earlier this week when Apple closed a security hole that allowed more than half a million Mac computers to get infected. The infections, by and large, stopped spreading, according to Doctor Web, the Russian maker of...
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Nick Miller's career in public policy began when he came across a message on Facebook.
Some interns fetch coffee. Nick Miller, a 26-year-old intern at online-video startup Boxee, is busy staging a regulatory battle in Washington with the biggest media companies in the world. It didn’t start off that way for the Rutgers University graduate....
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Google is experimenting with glasses that could one day offer features similar to a smartphone.
So many of us live through our smartphones, be it checking messages, taking photos, talking to friends, listening to music or looking up directions as we walk down the street. What if we did all of that through our glasses?...
Read more »A small law firm that has become a big problem for large media companies has decided to call it quits. Public-interest advocates are lamenting the loss of the Media Access Project, a Washington-based nonprofit that began in the civil rights...
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The ability of companies to use what we say for their own commercial purposes is increasing.
Some of what we type into our digital devices is data-mined and used to help advertisers send us more targeted ads. But how about the queries or commands we say into our smartphones? Is that the next frontier for data-mining?...
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The Flip camera remains a favorite on Amazon.
A year after Cisco Systems Inc. said it would shutter its Flip video-camera unit, the devices are still among the best-selling camcorders on Amazon.com. The black Flip UltraHD is the No. 3 most popular handheld video camera on Amazon’s site....
Read more »Celebrities often turn to Twitter to break nuggets of news, but what happens when 140 characters isn’t enough? For Keith Olbermann, the vehicle was TwitLonger. When the news anchor split from Current TV, the obscure cable network, he unleashed his statement...
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Groupon said today that its fourth-quarter financials, as disclosed last month, were weaker than previously reported.
Even when Groupon tries to explain itself, the company can be confusing. The daily-deals provider said today that its fourth-quarter financials, as disclosed last month, were weaker than previously reported. The first question that a reader is likely to ask...
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