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Comment Re:You CAN turn off your phone. (Score 1) 147

by KillaPollo on Friday May 18, 2012 @03:35PM (#40045115) Attached to: Cops' Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Now Better Than GPS

Unlike surveillance cameras covertly installed into your television, pen and paper and in the user's control. You don't have to write on the paper all the time. In particular, if you are doing something private, like writing down your own thoughts, you can simply walk to the corner of the room in the blind spot of the surveilance camera. And if you're afraid the camera will still see you, you can simply not write on the piece of paper at all.

Apple To Help Foxconn Improve Factories 166

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 10, 2012 @02:31PM from the rotating-knives-yes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a welcome move, Apple has agreed to help share initial costs with Foxconn in improving the factories being used to manufacture iDevices. From the article: 'Foxconn chief Terry Gou did not give a figure for the costs, but the group has been spending heavily to fight a perception its vast plants in China are sweatshops with poor conditions for its million-strong labor force. It regards the criticism as unfair. "We've discovered that this (improving factory conditions) is not a cost. It is a competitive strength," Gou told reporters on Thursday after the ground-breaking ceremony for a new China headquarters in Shanghai. "I believe Apple sees this as a competitive strength along with us, and so we will split the initial costs."'"

Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone 207

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 05, 2012 @12:32PM from the have-you-considered-a-new-blender? dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Sascha Segan writes that although Verizon adamantly denies steering customers away from Apple's iPhones in favor of 4G LTE-enabled Android devices, he is convinced that Verizon has a strong reason to push buyers away from the iPhone. 'Here's the problem,' writes Segan. 'Verizon has spent millions of dollars rolling out its massive LTE network' but the carrier can't easily add capacity on its old 3G network. Since the iPhone isn't a 4G phone, sales of Verizon iPhones just crowd up their already busy 3G network while their 4G network has plenty of space. 'The iPhone is a great device. But it's making a crowded network more crowded. Until the LTE iPhone comes along, to rebalance its network, Verizon may quietly push Android phones.'"

Canadian Man Releases Open Source Star Trek Tricorder 109

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @08:25PM from the very-far-ahead-of-stone-knives-and-bearskins dept.

New submitter upontheturtlesback writes "Another example of Star Trek technology becoming a reality. In light of the recent Tricorder X-Prize announcement, Dr. Peter Jansen has openly released the designs for a series of Science Tricorders that he developed while a graduate student at McMaster University. The Science Tricorders are capable of sensing a variety of atmospheric, electromagnetic, and spatial phenomena. Where the Science Tricorder Mark 1 is a relatively easy-to-build proof of concept, the Science Tricorder Mark 2 runs Linux and resembles a cross between a Nintendo DS and scientific instrument with dual OLED touch displays. An exciting video shows them in action, and describes the project goal of creating general scientific tools for learning about and visualizing the world, as well as their importance for science education by helping kids understand abstract concepts like magnetism or polarization visually. The hardware schematics, board layouts, and firmware source are freely available on the Tricorder project website under various open licenses."

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