Yearly archive 2009

I suppose we should be used to it by now, but it's still disheartening to see U.S. tech companies whose success has been tied to the free flow of information so readily accommodate government censorship elsewhere. The latest examples: Apple, Read More →

Google has scheduled an Android-related press event at its headquarters Tuesday, and unless all the signs and portents have been badly misread, that's the day we'll get the official word on the Nexus One, the much-speculated-upon Google phone (see Read More →

"Increasingly as people's relationships migrate online, your interactions occur there. That makes it more natural for those acknowledgments of how important someone is to us to occur there also. Buying something like virtual champagne or a birthday card is telling Read More →

From the Telegraph, some of the year's stranger inventions, including the next gaming accessory on my personal wishlist — the PediSedate, a headset rig that blows nitrous oxide in your face while you play. Also, a cocktail Read More →

A quick survey of today's Apple-related news: * With the discovery of another one of Apple's arm's-length trademark applications, there's the possibility that the much anticipated iPad/iSlate/iTablet might be called the iGuide. Or maybe iGuide will be a service, Read More →

Since its development 21 years ago, the GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) algorithm has become the encryption standard used to protect the privacy of 80 percent of the world's mobile calls (including those of millions of Americans served chiefly Read More →