The crime-fighting agency seeks new powers to “listen in” on the Internet and social media.
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Why Google Should Be Worried About Facebook
I have written a few columns questioning Facebook’s long term value. And amidst all the recent news about the company’s IPO woes, it seems like investors may be skeptical as well.
Even though I may have a conviction that a …
WebOS: Dead? Oh, Sure, Almost Certainly — But Not Definitely
In January of 2009, Palm unveiled WebOS, its next-generation mobile operating system. A lot of us got really, really excited over it. It turned out, however, that WebOS’s launch day was its first and only moment of unalloyed …
Diablo III: So Far, So Rolling a Boulder Downhill
For the first 20 levels or so, Diablo III is like skiing down a gently sloping hill, one you’d label whatever comes before “green” at an actual resort. You can pretty well wade into any combat situation and wander back out by …
Digitimes on Digitimes: We Know What We’re Doing, and We’ll Try to Do Better
Last week, I wrote about Digitimes, the Taiwanese tech site which covers the Asian gadget supply chain and is most famous for its stories about alleged upcoming Apple products.
I revisited 25 old Digitimes stories about Apple …
Windows Aero: Why I’m Glad It’s Dead
Could iOS Photo Sharing Be Apple’s Next Ping-like Social Failure?
Apple’s enjoyed success in almost everything it’s done lately, with the exception of social networking.
The company may try to change that with iOS 6, the next version of its iPhone and iPad software. Unnamed “people familiar …
Police Need a Standard Policy to Deal with Flood of Smartphone GPS Data
Recently, smartphone owners became the majority of mobile subscribers. And a poll from the Pew Internet & American Life Project says that 74% of them use their phones to access location-based information — directions, local …
Yahoo Mess: More Proof That Media Companies Don’t Know Anything About Dealing with the Media
And so it ends. This morning, All Things D’s Kara Swisher — whose stories about Yahoo’s crisis over the widely-circulated but false statement that its new CEO Scott Thompson earned a degree in computer science have made for …
New iPhone Rumors Are Boring Already
Remember when the littlest iPhone rumor would send the tech blogosphere into a frenzy? Those days are apparently over, as a recent scoop by iLounge demonstrated.
iLounge’s story about Apple’s next iPhone seemed juicy enough. …
Is Apple’s Dropbox-Related App Rejection Process Getting Ridiculous?
Apple rejecting apps that use online storage repository Dropbox? The nerve! How could they? Why would they? Another nefarious Cupertino ploy to harangue developers and take over the world? Not exactly, though the company is …
BlackBerry 10: What RIM Needs to Succeed
Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry phones, won’t give up on the smartphone market without a fight.
RIM is regrouping for a big comeback push with BlackBerry 10, whose first smartphones will debut in late 2012. This week, …
