Apple Says No to Porn, Kinda
Pornography is a multibillion dollar industry, but you won’t find it on your iphone, at least not officially. Several sites, include Techland.com (a subsidiary of Time) reported a series of emails between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and one unsatisfied customer, Ryan Tate. In the emails Tate asks Jobs what he think Bob Dylan (a hero of Jobs’) would...
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Need Love? There’s an App for That
They say that love often blossoms where there are common interests. What if the interest is a brand?
Everyone knows someone who is an Apple enthusiast. Whether they’re a fan, or a fanatic a group in California wants to help them find others like them. Will your dating life also be “designed by Apple in California”?
The new site...
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Inspiring Speakers Talk about Technology
Do you know about TED? Although the acronym probably has many meanings depending on the context, here it stands for “Technology, Entertainment, Design”. The purpose of the organization, whose motto is “Ideas Worth Spreading”, is to bring people together to discuss technology as it applies to every sphere of life.
As I browsed through...
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Toilet Paper and Technology
If your household is like ours you are encountering a whole new sociological phenomenon: the ‘always- in-contact’ generation. Yesterday this hit an all new level for our family.
I was making my morning latte when the telephone rang and my husband answered. I heard the following his-half of the conversation: “Hello” “What??...
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Connecting Through Technology
Many of us make use of technology everyday to stay in touch with friends, family and the office. In today's Street Level video, we asked you: How do you keep digitally connected?
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It seems that every other...
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Kindle & the future of eBooks
There were precursors, such as Sony's Reader, which was released almost exactly one year before Amazon's Kindle. And eBooks have of course existed long before that. But the Kindle, as both a hardware platform with a paper-like E Ink screen and a format for distribution, gives the eBook ubiquitous credibility with the masses similar to what the iPod...
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Gadgets on a Plane – Are you packing?
Commercial flights aren’t as comfortable as they used to be. With meals and those little packs of peanuts a thing of the past, today’s savvy flyer has to take his or her comfort into their own hands. The in-flight movie is one of the last comforts still left on commercial aircrafts. But if you’re relying on the movie to entertain you for...
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