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  • Net Neutrality is a complicated issue.  The recent Google/Verizon policy proposal has raised new questions about the open internet – the idea that…

  • They hope so. The airline is integrating itself into Facebook so you can buy a ticket directly through the social media giant. Makes sense, I guess…

  • Aug 13, 2010

    Talking Android!

    If you can't be bothered to push a button (or, let's be honest, if you're driving a car), Android phones can now work on Voice Action. Use a set…

  • Apple TV has been this grand idea of a set top box on your TV that connects online and lets you watch shows that way. But the box is expensive and…

  • Unlike many coffee shops, Starbucks has long been stubborn about giving away free Wi-Fi access to customers, choosing instead to build membership…

  • Or is that a vague and somewhat biased question? On today's show, Brian X. Chen from Wired talked about how the impending boom in tablet computers…

  • Here's some online lionization of the disgruntled flight attendant.

  • University of Pennsylvania researchers say they can take a picture of the screen of a touch screen phone, enhance the contrast on the smudge marks,…

  • It's the dang Street View issue again. Latest is that Google has announced that people in Germany have a month to opt out of the Street View…

  • It's an add-on for Firefox that alerts you every time your computer sends information about you to Google. Due to Google's omnipresence online…