Even those of us who consider ourselves savvy when it comes to online shopping may be susceptible to the latest round of compelling e-commerce scams flooding the Internet. That’s because an array of online retailers based abroad (frequently in China)… Read More ›
It seems hard to imagine that the humble mouse needed a set of instructions back in 1983, but it must have been strangely exciting to use one for the first time as an adult. tweeted by Anatoly Shashkin.
Try to put yourself into the mental state of a novice computer user. You have a brand new iMac, and you want to edit some Excel spreadsheets. In the dock you find that App Store you’ve heard so much about,… Read More ›
Financial institutions, overcoming some initial trepidation about privacy, are increasingly gauging consumers’ creditworthiness by using phone-company data on mobile calling patterns and locations. The practice is tantalizing for lenders because it could help them reach some of the 2 billion… Read More ›
Imagine that you are interviewing a candidate for a job in your office. You switch your mobile phone to silent mode and place it face down on a table several feet from where you and the candidate are sitting. This… Read More ›
There’s a town in West Virginia where there are tight restrictions on mobile signal, wifi and other parts of what most of us know as simply: modern life. It means Green Bank is a place unlike anywhere else in the… Read More ›
Some varied results, but largely in line with expectations.
The problem for the NHTSA is that these are all just guidelines. Not only are these guidelines voluntary (meaning car makers could choose to forego implementing a special driver mode), but if the terms seem too onerous, users will just… Read More ›
Sources in Apple’s supply chain have corroborated claims that the company will launch a 10.5-inch iPad in 2017. The device is thought to be aimed at the enterprise and education sectors, where the 9.7-inch iPad is considered too small and… Read More ›
My laptop is wireless. My phone is wireless. But listening to music is a wiring bonanza. Tweeted by Horace Dediu. A picture tells a thousand words.
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