smartphones

How Facebook could blow it

A pledge to give users the power to block the ads they hate is a promise the social network can't keep

Andrew Leonard Friday, May 3, 2013 11:45 AM UTC
Technology Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is blowing it

Mark Zuckerberg won't let me turn off the spammy online dating ads on my smartphone. It's a big mistake

Andrew Leonard Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:24 PM UTC 43
Technology Facebook, Advertising

Yes, the PC is dead. What’s next?

The new normal: Great industries fail, and our distracted, meme-chasing, mobile-addicted society hardly blinks

Andrew Leonard Friday, Apr 12, 2013 5:45 PM UTC 185
Technology PC sales, computer sales, memes

Facebook wants to steal your soul

Mark Zuckerberg's master plan: Transforming your smartphone into his mobile advertising billboard

Andrew Leonard Thursday, Apr 4, 2013 9:57 PM UTC 24
Technology Facebook, facebook phone

Why would anyone want a Facebook phone?

Only one answer makes sense: The price will be right. Free smartphones for everyone!

Andrew Leonard Monday, Apr 1, 2013 7:46 PM UTC 11
Technology Facebook, facebook phone

Google’s latest privacy attack

It makes nice with 38 states -- paying a $7 million fine. Then turns around and targets privacy laws and a key app

Andrew Leonard Friday, Mar 15, 2013 11:45 AM UTC
Technology Google, Privacy, Street View

A new doom for magazines: Smartphones

Hey you there, standing in line at the grocery store checking Twitter? You are a bad person

Andrew Leonard Friday, Feb 8, 2013 3:35 PM UTC
Technology smartphones, magazine sales

iPhones make lousy dermatologists

New smartphone apps claim to provide medical help, offering false promises of correctly diagnosing skin cancer

Kevin Charles Redmon, Pacific Standard Monday, Feb 4, 2013 7:08 PM UTC
Social Pacific Standard, smartphones

FTC to mobile advertisers: Behave!

A new government report asks advertisers and app developers to "consider" a Do Not Track system

Andrew Leonard Friday, Feb 1, 2013 7:35 PM UTC
Technology Privacy, online advertising

Will BlackBerry ever be hip again?

BlackBerry's new launch reminds us why the phone might only be the favorite of middle-managing mediocrities

Andrew Leonard Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 5:58 PM UTC 22
Technology blackberry, RIM, smartphones, Q10

High school smartphone do’s and dont’s

An Albany principal's decision to search a student's confiscated iPhone raises sticky constitutional questions

Andrew Leonard Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 5:30 PM UTC 26
Technology Privacy, smartphones, iPhone

Business Insider may have published the dumbest article of the year

Henry Blodget's computer battery runs out on a 9-hour flight, and the publication's editor expresses his grief

Andrew Leonard Monday, Jan 28, 2013 9:00 PM UTC 27
Technology Henry Blodget, Air Travel

Angry Birds, tracking device?

New research reveals that some of the most popular phone apps are gathering personal info like location data

Andrew Leonard Friday, Jan 18, 2013 3:00 PM UTC
Technology smartphones, tablets, Apps, Privacy

Fewer people annoyed by cellphone yapping

Probably because fewer people talk on them

Alex Halperin Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 1:43 PM UTC
Technology iPhone, Android, smartphones

You don’t need a fancy phone to be a cheater!

A flip-phone has become so popular with adulterers it was given the nickname "uwaki keitai," or "infidelity phone"

Katie Mcdonough Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 7:36 PM UTC
Technology tech, Adultery, relationships

NRA launches shooting app for ages 4 and up

For $0.99, players can "unlock" an MK11 sniper rifle

Katie Mcdonough Monday, Jan 14, 2013 1:59 PM UTC
Technology Guns, NRA, Video Games, Apps

Smartphones bust up the digital divide

The share of Web traffic accounted for by mobile devices is growing astonishingly fast

Andrew Leonard Friday, Jan 11, 2013 6:50 PM UTC
Technology smartphones, web traffic

Salon’s new technology section

Our crazy mashed-up social media, smartphone, networked world deserves more coverage. Here's why

Andrew Leonard Friday, Jan 11, 2013 12:45 PM UTC 16
Technology smartphones, Social Media

CES 2013: The good, the bad and the weird

Bendable smartphones? Great! A kiddie potty decked out with an iPad? Unnecessary!

Katie Mcdonough Thursday, Jan 10, 2013 5:40 PM UTC
Technology ces 2013, tech, smartphones

Clinton’s CES “gun rant”

The former president delivers a message at the Consumer Electronics Show: Pick up a smartphone, put down the gun

Andrew Leonard Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 9:48 PM UTC
Technology CES, Consumer Electronics Show

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