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Microsoft’s XBox: Now you’re talking

In the push to conquer television, will Microsoft get the starring role? That's what some analysts are saying in the coverage about the Xbox 360 update coming tomorrow. As the video-game console gets new entertainment options and becomes a more Read More →

Carrier IQ saga: The freaked out vs. the bored

The Carrier IQ saga has received plenty of attention from this and other tech blogs, scrutiny from senators such as Al Franken, and sparked lawsuits. An app developer's recent discovery of a log that records the keystrokes of many Read More →

Quoted: on Yahoo and the future

"If you're not growing, if you're not giving people challenging things to work on, if you're not holding out the promise of creating some personal wealth during one of the frothiest technology markets in modern history, and if your people Read More →

Off topic: Pandemics, snowglobes, luxury goods, chewing gum

The deadliest pandemics in history, an infographic. A look at how snowglobes went global.(via Mental Floss) Research time: Studying status, power and the "trap" of luxury goods. And the supposed benefits of Read More →

Carrier IQ and tracking: Suit filed, plus other follow-up

The first lawsuit has been filed in the smartphone-tracking controversy that GMSV has been following the past couple of days, with phone manufacturers Samsung and HTC, and Silicon Valley software maker Carrier IQ, as the targets. A developer Read More →

Zynga’s scaled-back IPO: Game has changed

At least one guessing game in the tech world lately is over: Zynga will sell its shares at $8.50 to $10 each, seeking to raise up to $1 billion in an IPO valued at up to Read More →

Quoted: Surveillance says ‘we’re all screwed’

"Who here has an iPhone? Who here has a BlackBerry? Who uses Gmail? Well, you’re all screwed. Intelligence contractors have surveillance systems for all those right now." — Julian Assange, on WikiLeaks' unveiling Thursday of the Spy Files, a Read More →

Off topic: homophones and other words, smoking infographic, gigantic bug, baseball in space

From air, err and heir to you'll and yule, homophones galore. (via the History of English — check out the post about how words are created — by way of Metafilter.) Cigarette smoking around the world, Read More →

Tech and policy: SOPA, online sales taxes, exports and censorship

Here we are again at the corner of Tech and Policy, talking about some hot issues. • SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, has many powerful and high-profile opponents, such Google, Facebook and others. (See Read More →

Smartphone tracking: Who’s affected? Is it legal?

Following up on our post yesterday about software that tracks most everything smartphone users do — including the text messages they write — and which doesn't seem to be able to be turned off, here's the latest: • Which phones, Read More →

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