Apple Says It’s Not Tracking Location: Take a Look at this Map & Judge For...
In a statement issued Wednesday morning, Apple said “The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location, some of...
View ArticleConsumer Reports and the iPhone 4: Much Ado About Almost Nothing
Consumer Reports says that touching the gap on the left side (photo from Verizon shows right side gap) can cause reception problems For the second time in about seven months, Consumer Reports has...
View ArticleThe “Twitter” Diet
Wi-Fi scale from Withings tweets your weight Call it the “Twitter Diet” if you will, but I’m Tweeting my weight (follow @NoBellyPrize) as a way of a publicly declaring that I’m serious about dropping...
View ArticleThe Energizer Bunny of Laptops: Lenovo X220 Keeps Going and Going
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 (Credit: Lenovo) The Lenovo ThinkPad X220, which will be available in April as both a standard notebook PC and as a convertible PC/Tablet, boasts an amazing 24 hours of battery...
View ArticleWant to Lose Weight? Try the Social Media Diet
Lose It! for the web and iPhone make it easy to track your food and exercise Twitter, Facebook and a website/iPhone app called Lose It! are helping me lose weight. I’m not about to write ..... The...
View ArticleGoogle Must Like Facebook’s “Like” Button Cause its New +1 is Similar
+1 icon to right of search results Google has an experimental feature called +1 that you can add to your search results. Once its configured, you’ll see an icon next to your search listings. If ........
View ArticleNew Facebook Safety Center Helps, But Safety Remains a Shared Responsibility
At the end of the day, we’re all responsible for our own safety on Facebook and on the Internet in general. Online companies can do things behind the scenes to try to keep their members ..... The post...
View ArticleThe Scary Implications of the iPhone Tracking Everywhere You Go
Last Thursday I took the 4:00 PM Megabus from Boston to New York. I knew where I was going as did a few of my friends. AT&T has a record of the cell towers I ..... The post The Scary Implications...
View ArticlePioneer’s New After-Market Car Audio and Navigation System
In October I purchased a 2010 Prius with a basic radio instead of the factory navigation and audio system that would have cost about $2,000 extra. At first I just used my Android ..... The post...
View ArticleAndroid Challenges Apple With New Devices, Software and Services
Samsung Tab 10.1 (right) is lighter and thinner than the iPad 2 (Photo by Larry Magid) San Francisco — Day one of the annual Google I/O developer’s was all things Android. The day began with ..... The...
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