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Illinois tells sex offenders, “No Facebook for you”

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Android

Good and Evil: Apple, Google, The Feds and Your Wireless Life

So much virtual ink has been spilled within the tech sphere over the Google Voice/Apple App Store fiasco, and yet I still can't quite wrap my head around how I feel about the whole thing. Certain Silicon Valley types, tech bloggers, and...

By Noah Kravitz - Aug 4 12:50 PM 20 comments

Politics

Obama: "Where do you guys get these ringtones? I'm just curious."

When a cell phone ringing interrupted a White House press briefing, I thought that was pretty lame. This one’s even worse. Nothing like interrupting the President of the United States because you don’t know how to put your phone on vibrate mode....

By Adriana Lee - Jul 22 2:55 PM 14 comments

Travel

Death by Cell Phone: NSC video targets driving and mobile phone use

According to the National Safety Council, cell phone use is responsible for six percent of all vehicular crashes each year — which is more than half a million collisions annually. The NSC wants to make the behavior socially unacceptable, and created...

By Adriana Lee - Jul 10 8:55 AM 4 comments

Politics

Department of Justice investigating abuse of power by carriers?

Thanks to recent acquisitions, both Verizon Wireless and AT&T may be under the Department of Justice's spotlight for potential antitrust behavior. In a move somewhat reminiscent of the Ma Bell days, the DOJ is specifically investigating hardware...

By Aaron Baker - Jul 7 12:30 PM 7 comments

Politics

Government getting cozy with Sprint in preparation for 2010 census

Regardless of the ability to carry the latest device on the market or have the best plan in the industry, Sprint's ability to say that it is the exclusive partner of the US Government is beyond neat. With 2010 rolling around, the US Census Bureau...

By Aaron Baker - Jun 30 1:00 PM add a comment

Politics

U.S. govt asks Twitter to delay upgrade

Two days ago, system integrity took a back seat to international politics when the U.S. government asked Twitter to delay a scheduled upgrade on behalf of the Iranian people, who use the service to organize protests against the recent presidential...

By Adriana Lee - Jun 18 1:25 PM 4 comments

Politics

Senate wonders if carriers are ripping off the public

Everyone knows that heavy thumb tappers (like the Iowa girl who won $50,000 in a texting contest) need serious unlimited texting plans. But what about everyone else? You know, those who can’t find package options between occasional messaging and a...

By Adriana Lee - Jun 18 1:10 PM add a comment

Politics

North Carolina poised to become 13th state to ban text messaging for all drivers

On the heels of Missouri's decision to ban text messaging while driving for those under 21, North Carolina is poised to become the 13th state in the nation to ban messaging for all drivers. A senate judiciary committee approved the bill with little...

By Aaron Baker - May 19 7:05 PM 5 comments

Politics

White House briefing interrupted by lame cell phone users

Last weekend, I was sitting in a movie theater, watching the opening sequence for “Star Trek,” when I heard a cell phone go off. I was annoyed, since it had only been moments since the “Please turn off your cell phones” announcement played. But...

By Adriana Lee - May 15 8:15 AM 1 comments

Cell Phone...

PC World looks at rejected iPhone apps

Is this news? Not really, but it’s darn funny.PC World’s coverage of 10 rejected apps was meant to shed light on the iPhone app developer’s dilemma: Is there any way to know whether a pet project stands a chance of approval in the App Store in...

By Adriana Lee - Feb 28 7:35 PM add a comment

Re: iPhone app: News junkies, get your fix with CNN

Thanks for the heads-up on this App Adriana, I will check it out now, sounds interesting.....

By troublekid - Oct 1 10:21 AM add a comment

Re: Re: Good and Evil: Apple, Google, The Feds and Your Wireless Life

Don't know what to tell you. Not the first time you've read my writing not in the way I've intended it. Seems to me like you're looking for a blog written from a perspective different from mine, and instead are reading mine, disagreeing with parts...

By Noah Kravitz - Aug 25 5:46 PM add a comment

Re: Re: Illinois tells sex offenders, “No Facebook for you”

I couldn't agree more! I am a registered SO of the sort. I was convicted in 1997 for Underage Porn. I served over 7 1/2 years because I was one of the first ones. I also did 9 months of in house rehab in lock up, and then another 3 years of SO...

By Trippin847 - Aug 25 10:03 AM add a comment

Re: Illinois tells sex offenders, “No Facebook for you”

Yes I can see the point of this. Yes, sex offenders shouldn't be on social network sites to begin with, and should be persecuted. However, I AM in the situation that Adriana pointed out. My daughter is 18 and her boyfriend just turned 17. ...

By jgvillan74 - Aug 20 3:41 PM add a comment

Re: Illinois tells sex offenders, “No Facebook for you”

The intentions are well with what they're trying to do, however, the effort involved in enforcing this rule would be too great and not worth the effort (or cost). I think a better solution might be to address the issues that the registered sex...

By Maxim9 - Aug 20 12:11 PM add a comment

Re: Illinois tells sex offenders, “No Facebook for you”

i think thats this law is messed up, it would be hurting the wrong people. also face book is the "friendliest" SN out. if an Sex Offender. wants to pray on kids they wouldn't use there REAL name anyway. and using there real name would be the only...

By Kraksx - Aug 20 12:10 PM add a comment

Re: Good and Evil: Apple, Google, The Feds and Your Wireless Life

Hey, I've been searching on the web and found sth. interesting. Google wants to make a trick, like they did with their "Latitude" service, so that iPhone users still have access to the service via their web browser.Unluckily the article is quite...

By Phil_Lan - Aug 10 5:14 PM add a comment

Re: Good and Evil: Apple, Google, The Feds and Your Wireless Life

I understand why people may have a problem with the way apple decides to approve or disapprove apps in app-store. As a customer I wish apple would give more control to us and let us decide what we want on our phones, but like noah states you dont...

By Lance Gonzalez - Aug 9 6:27 PM add a comment

Re: Good and Evil: Apple, Google, The Feds and Your Wireless Life

noah...this article is disappointing. what i am hearing is this:1) apple is perfect and them f$@king people & developers over while stifling innovation is super cool. 2) Schmidt can get favors out of our president. (...wtf??)3) you can't understand...

By EcceHomo999 - Aug 6 12:10 AM add a comment

Re: Re: Good and Evil: Apple, Google, The Feds and Your Wireless Life

I think it has to do more about the exclisitivity between Apple and AT&T, and this thing with GV is just the breaking point that got the FCC's attention. Although, Apple has rejected many apps before. Why would this be any different? Is it...

By jgvillan74 - Aug 5 2:29 PM add a comment

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