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It has been a hot topic for longer than most topics can survive in the world of technology buzz. We’ve heard inside and out how the NSA uses extremely aggressive tactics to get a hold of data they claim is essential for national security. Now, some stalwarts in the technology world are calling
It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks, especially when the new trick goes against the very nature of the old tricks. That’s the biggest challenge for getting adoption of the various driverless car projects being worked on by most car manufacturers as well as companies like Google. We
If the rumors are true (and they often are when tech and Wall Street collide) then BlackBerry may be on the table for purchase. The once-proud smartphone maker has struggled to keep up and their latest (last?) play to stay alive with the BlackBerry 10 has not given them much hope for a future. Black
To some, it was a brilliant idea that would help Amazon reach even more people. To others, it was a quirky idea that was destined to fail. Early indications of a lack of success are having at least two major retailers pulling down the Amazon Lockers, a venture into the real world by the virtual [&he
The end may be near for the smartphone pioneer. With reports coming in that BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion) may be cutting nearly half of their global workforce, our assertion that “RIM is dying” may be coming more rapidly than expected. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wedne
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings dropped a surprising statistic during an interview with Dutch website Tweakers last week, as he made the rounds promoting the launch of Netflix Netherlands. When asked if Dutch viewers would switch from piracy to Netflix, Hastings said sure, some will switch, and that pirac
The folks at Boulder/San Francisco-based Occipital are very much software people — the company’s RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Store days before the team sold it to eBay, as was 360 Panorama before iOS 6′s Panorama feature took some of the wind out of its sails. Their roots may be [&he
Pandora Media Inc. (P), the biggest Internet radio service, won a judge’s order to stop a group representing songwriters and music publishers from narrowing the scope of licenses that allow their music to be played. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan said in a ruling yesterday that Pandora
Several months after calling for legislation to unlock cellphones, the White House filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday asking that all wireless carriers be required to unlock all mobile devices so that users can easily switch between carriers. The proposal from the
Are we finally about to learn more about the “Steam Box”? Mastermind Gabe Newell dropped hints that next week is the time when we’ll finally get a taste of the gaming system that could combine the flexibility and power of PC gaming with the ease and simplicity of console gaming. Va
Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments. President Dilma Rousseff ordered
Most business owners sued by patent trolls don’t talk about it to anyone other than their lawyer; a typical response is to cross one’s fingers and hope the problem goes away. It won’t, of course. Often they do the next best thing—hope it will go away for as little money as possible
