Carriers Got 1M Gov’t, Police Requests for Data in 2012

Requests for customer mobile phone data from federal, state, and local authorities topped 1 million last year

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The Human Cost of our Electronics

Marcus Bleasdale knows more about what goes into your smartphone than you’d ever want to hear about it. The British photographer has been documenting unthinkable violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 1999

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Study: Social Media Cuts Friendships Short

Rudeness and throwing insults are cutting online friendships short with a survey on Wednesday showing people are getting ruder on social media and two in five users have ended contact after a virtual altercation

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Replacing Big Banks With The Internet

We’ve seen digital technology disintermediate everything from record companies to university curriculum. Yet banking has remained rather immune to all this disruption

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So, Now It’s Illegal to Jailbreak a Smartphone…

Consumers hoping to transfer a new smartphone from one mobile carrier to another could face up to five years in jail and a $500,000 fine because of a ruling from the Librarian of Congress that went into effect Saturday

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Smartphones Obsolete in the Wake of Sandy

That is a status - Searching… - that could well describe the scene in the city in the days after the storm, as throngs of New Yorkers wandered dazed and aimless through the streets without the assistance of their typical go-to electric lifelines

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iPhone 5 Officially Arrives

The phone, which will run on higher speed LTE networks, is made entirely out of glass an aluminum. It will have a larger, 4-inch screen, showing five rows of icons, with a retina display.

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The Prospect of Google Mobile Wallets

Google Wallet product managers say they will provide I.D. verification so people can check in for a flight, download virtual boarding passes, and even keep their driver’s license on their mobile phone

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New Jersey’s ACLU Launches App

New Jersey’s branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has taken its mission of policing the police to smartphones.

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Smartphone Addiction Is Real

Some of us, in fact, put more time and TLC into our phones than we invest in our personal relationships. There’s strong evidence that we’ve developed a new mobile mindset that affects our thoughts

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