Archive for 'Technology'
US phone subscribers hang up on contracts
By PETER SVENSSON | Associated Press – 18 mins ago NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. consumers have had their fill of expensive, contract-based phone plans. Figures from T-Mobile USA on Thursday, added to earlier reports from [...]
Wikipedia editor responds to ‘Critical Race Theory’ edit war
By Josh Peterson | Tech Editor | Published: 11:58 PM 03/12/2012 A Wikipedia article devoted to Critical Race Theory, a controversial legal theory crafted to respond to the alleged role of “white supremacy” in American law, was [...]
New alien planet is perfect for life, scientists say
By Denise Chow | Published February 02, 2012 | Space.com A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, on its surface — [...]
Ford CEO Alan Mulally on the pitfalls of his company’s newest car.
By Joanne Lipmann | The Daily Beast | Jan 16, 2012 12:00 AM EST For more than three years, President Obama has been singing the praises of electric cars. He’s repeatedly called for 1 million plug-in [...]
World’s oldest car sells for $4.6 million
By Peter Valdes-Dapena | October 10, 2011: 4:57 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A steam-powered car, billed as the oldest car in the world that still runs, was sold at a Hershey, Pa. auction late Friday [...]
Tesla Model S outpaces Porsche without a drop of gas
By Mike Wehner, Tecca | Today in Tech – 3 hrs ago Can a new, more family-friendly model make Tesla a household name? When it comes to zero-emission sports cars, Tesla Motors is one of the [...]
RIM shares jump on Icahn stake talk
Reuters | 12:00pm EDT TORONTO (Reuters) – Shares of Research In Motion jumped more than 6 percent on Tuesday morning on market speculation that activist investor Carl Icahn had taken a stake in the struggling BlackBerry [...]
Google, Microsoft goes public with patent spat
By BARBARA ORTUTAY – AP Technology Writer | AP – Fri, Aug 5, 2011 NEW YORK (AP) — Tech heavyweights Microsoft and Google are acting like a couple of feuding starlets in a public online spat [...]
Apple Stonewalling on Location Tracking Triggers Congressional Hearings
by Dan Lyons | April 25, 2011 | 10:39pm Sen. Al Franken just announced hearings on the location-tracking software in iPhone and iPad, South Korea and Europe are investigating—and here come the lawsuits. Dan Lyons reports [...]
MSNBC: Minorities hit hardest by iPhone tracking technology
By Jeff Poor – The Daily Caller 1:00 PM 04/22/2011 Victim politics meets Big Brother-style technology, who would have thunk it? Friday on MSNBC’s daytime programming, host Thomas Roberts explained that in the wake of [...]
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