Apple, Google, and Others Agree to Limit App Privacy Invasions

The State of California and big tech companies--including Apple, Google, and Microsoft--agree to keep mobile apps from leaking your personal information without telling you.

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Phones

Upgrade Insanity: Why There Are Too Many Smartphones--and How That Hurts Consumers

You pay $200 for what you think is the best smartphone available; then a few months later the same manufacturer releases a similar phone with much better specs. There has to be a better way.

Phones

Top Smartphone Apps for Pet Lovers

Use these 12 apps to treat, manage, photograph or even save the life of your cat or dog. There are some for both Apple iPhone and Google Android smartphone users.

Tablets

Weird and Wonderful Music-Making Apps and Toys

A guitar eats an iPad, a tablet becomes a dance-music powerhouse, an iPhone makes like a theremin, and a guitar made of five phones and a cheap speaker cranks out 'Cracklin' Rosie.' And the fun may be just beginning.

Productivity

Now You Can Edit Collaboratively with Google Docs for Android

Google Presentations get an update as well, including a new discussions feature.

Windows

Windows 8 Will Deliver a Cloud Service to Rival or Beat iCloud

In Windows 8 Microsoft will merge its free online storage service SkyDrive and syncing software Mesh to provide the backbone for what looks to be a service that will rival or beat iCloud.

Storage

Huddle Launches Intelligent Sync Tool to Rival Sharepoint

Huddle CEO claims that the company's new tool is the first to offer enterprise-grade cloud file sync

Security

Kevin Mitnick 101: How Heartland Leaker Got Confidential Documents

The Heartland Institute document release shows just how effective social engineering continues to be.

Apple

Apple Store Thief Can't Hold Out for iPhone 5

News reports out of Charlotte, N.C., indicate a "known suspect" swiped 25 iPhones from an Apple Store at Northlake Mall between Dec. 1 and Jan. 11.

E-Readers

Is the Kindle Getting a Color Screen?

Amazon may be making a color Kindle.

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Security

Browser Add-On Stops Google (and others) from Tracking You Online

Abine offers browser add-on that prevents Google, advertisers, Facebook, and other marketing companies from tracking you online via a free browser tool.

Search

Google's New Privacy Policy: How to Stay Off the Grid

If you are concerned about Google tracking you through your search habits, it is pretty straightforward to turn off the feature.

Linux / Unix

Ubuntu for Android Will Bring the Desktop to Your Phone

No mere app, this new version of Canonical's Linux distribution will coexist with Android on smartphones and offer seamless integration of apps and data.

Web

Google Doodle Hails Heinrich Hertz, Discoverer of Electronic Heartbeat

Hertz's discovery was vital, leading to many others that make up the bleeping circuits of our everyday lives.

Tablets

Nook Tablet Is Not Really a Kindle Fire Threat

Barnes and Noble is pitting its new Nook Tablet model against the Kindle Fire, but it lacks the secret ingredient necessary to compete with the Amazon tablet.

Tablets

iPad 3 Is Coming, So Get Top Dollar for Your iPad 2 Now

Data from the launch of the iPad 2 indicates that now might be the very best time to sell that iPad 2. Wait, and its value may plummet.

Apple

Three Ways I Want Apple to Improve iTunes

Apple is working on an update to the iTunes Store, according to reports. While it's busy at work, here are three improvements I'd like to see.

Gadgets

Google Augmented Reality Glasses Expected by Year's End

The glasses are meant to work like a heads-up-display that analyzes and displays information for the wearer, priced somewhere between $250 and $600.

Security

Google Says IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical in Modern Web

Microsoft's privacy protection feature in Internet Explorer, known as P3P, is impractical to comply with while providing modern web functionality such as...

Tablets

B&N Launches $199 Nook Tablet: Watch Out Amazon!

Barnes & Noble will start allowing users to store more than 1 GB of content from outside the Nook Store on the device's internal storage.

How to Choose a Tablet for Your Business

Want to use a tablet for work so you can leave your laptop at home, or even replace your primary business computer? Here's what you need to know.

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Search

Google's New Privacy Policy: How to Stay Off the Grid

If you are concerned about Google tracking you through your search habits, it is pretty straightforward to turn off the feature.

Web

Google Doodle Hails Heinrich Hertz, Discoverer of Electronic Heartbeat

Hertz's discovery was vital, leading to many others that make up the bleeping circuits of our everyday lives.

Security

Expert: Microsoft Has Itself to Blame in Browser-Privacy Flap

Microsoft is pointing fingers at Google and Facebook for circumventing the privacy mechanism baked into Internet Explorer, but the real problem lies in its own failure to implement the P3P privacy standard well, an expert says.

Operating Systems

Windows Server 8 to Be Storage-focused OS

With the beta of Windows Server 8 to be released in the next few weeks, Microsoft executives said the next-generation OS is focused squarely on storage.

Storage

Megaupload Founder Deemed a Low Flight Risk, Released on Bail

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was granted bail on Wednesday in a New Zealand court after a judge found he is not a flight risk.

Gadgets

Google Augmented Reality Glasses Expected by Year's End

The glasses are meant to work like a heads-up-display that analyzes and displays information for the wearer, priced somewhere between $250 and $600.

Apple

Foxconn's Pay Increase: Will Apple's Prices Go Up, Too?

The new global balance that’s taking shape will be far-reaching among consumers, investors, and voters.

Internet

Mozilla's Open Web App Store Will Launch Next Week

Users will be able to buy an app once and use it on any HTML5-enabled device, Mozilla says.

E-Readers

Is the Kindle Getting a Color Screen?

Amazon may be making a color Kindle.

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