At this point, unless you’ve been living under a digital rock, everyone knows that Apple is collecting data from your iPhone. But why are they doing it?
(More: How to Encrypt Your iPhone’s Location Data)
Turns out the answer is simpler than you think, and it doesn’t involve a conspiracy theory, the government or David Duchovny. …
It’s begun, whoop-dee-doo. Yesterday, AT&T submitted its paperwork to the FCC for approval. That merger, you know the one that conglomerates AT&T and T-Mobile as a giant telecom monopoly, has finally kicked off.
The uber-long behemoth of a document, at 381 pages long, documents AT&T’s case for acquiring T-Mobile USA from Deutsche …
Just like that, Sony’s PlayStation Network is down, and hard. Know how I know? Because I just tried to watch an episode of Friday Night Lights over dinner with my wife and couldn’t. My PS3 kept flashing a “you must first sign into the PlayStation Network to sign into Netflix” popup. I tried signing into the PlayStation Network …
Every console manufacturer has a successor in mind–it goes without saying. Well, unless you’re the games media, you’ve cornered Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto, you’re pestering him like the paparazzi, and he spits out something like this.
“Don’t ask! Even when the Wii launched we were developing new hardware, work on 3DS …
In the first major market scuffle over iPhone sales, which wireless giant takes this round: AT&T or Verizon?
After both companies released their earnings report, it’s still a tough call. AT&T posted solid numbers yesterday, but Verizon is reporting today that it signed up more than 900,000 new net subscribers. That’s more than double …
Encrypting data on your hard drive can be such nuisance, what with all the special apps and public/private keys, and the whole thing might as well be a pound of slag if you forget the passcode.
What if you could just hide everything in plain sight?
Turns out you can. It’s called steganography, from the Greek steganos, …
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I actually like the idea of this—hear me out! Hear me out.
Google’s experimental Cr-48 laptop runs the company’s web-only “Chrome” operating system. It features instant-on startup, long battery life, and 100 megabytes of free Verizon cellular data usage each month. These are all nice things, to be sure, but you can’t just install …
My TIME.com Technologizer column this week looks at RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, a new tablet that’s frustrating in its initial incarnation: it’s full of promise, but feels like RIM simply didn’t have time to finish it before getting it out the door.
Despite the PlayBook’s software issues, the hardware is quite pleasing. With one …
For those of you keeping score: We got the first iPad about a year ago, then nothing for a long time, then a brief and expensive blip on the radar called the Samsung Galaxy Tab, then nothing for a long time, then the Motorola Xoom, followed a couple weeks later by the iPad 2, and now all hell’s breaking loose. The BlackBerry Playbook is …
It’s a country with a population of over 1.3 billion, so this should surprise no one, but yes, China appears to be to the iPhone what flowers are to bees.
IDG News reports that in a conference call yesterday, Apple COO Tim Cook revealed that between January and March 2011, iPhone sales in “Greater China” surged nearly 250 …
Correction appended: April 21, 2011
While Apple celebrates a surge in profits, a report by Greenpeace has ranked it as least “green” among tech companies.
Apple’s quarterly earnings have grown 95% to $6bn, but the company has also been accused of heavily relying on pollution-inducing coal power to support its banks of data …