Today in the department of bad ideas, we have a pair of San Antonio high schools that's decided to tag its students with RFID chips so that they can track their every move on campus. Starting this fall, the Northside Independent School District will
To describe a robot future, the makers of The Bell System, at the time the leading telephone service in the US and Canada, hired Jim Henson. Then known as the eccentric behind the variety puppet show Sam and Friends, and before he became a household…
Recent victories over Hollywood's Stop Online Piracy Act have reinvigorated the fight against a corporate takeover of the internet. But throughout this ongoing crusade to keep the 'net democratic and free, one might ask: how did it even get that way
To a certain sort of person, the one that travels abroad and doesn't like to leave their iPhone at home, Apple's newest objet d'obsession delivers a wonderful feature: it's a 'world phone,' which means it can receive signals from both GSM and CDMA ne…
I’ve long subscribed to the philosophy that this existence basically widdles down to two things: energy and information. The issue with energy is obvious though its solution might not be so straightforward. Information is more conceptual. It comes do…
AT&T "announced today":http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/att-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/?src=busln that it's reached an agreement with T-Mobile to purchase the company for $39 billion in mostly cash, making it easily the largest cellular…
AT&T users everywhere will soon have to watch their downloads, which is probably exactly what the company wants. The internet service provider (ISP) will soon restrict its DSL and UVerse users to 150GB and 250GB caps respectively in move that doesn't…
