Liz Gannes in Social on February 9, 2011 at 9:12 am PT
A new app called visualList is a simple but powerful extension of the iPhone’s camera, allowing users to organize and remember things by taking pictures.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 31, 2011 at 3:50 pm PT
The last significant Internet connection in Egypt has now gone down. The world has responded with numerous clever workarounds to help the people there get their messages out.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 19, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions on Internet access in hotel rooms, getting more hard-drive space and what to do with duplicate digital photos.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 13, 2011 at 7:11 am PT
Mobilized is in Beantown Thursday to hear Research In Motion talk about its plans for the enterprise. The event, at the Marriott Copley Place downtown, kicked off around 10 am ET. Here are the highlights.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 3, 2010 at 3:40 pm PT
India and Research in Motion are still struggling to find common ground in a dispute over how much access the government is given to corporate emails and instant messages. According to AFP, an Indian government minister told Parliament on Friday that no solution has been reached in the standoff. RIM faces a January 31 deadline to meet the country’s demand for a way to monitor communications.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 3, 2010 at 2:06 pm PT
Google is beefing up its voice services with today’s acquisition of Cambridge, England-based Phonetic Arts. Google’s view is that voice will be critical going forward to making mobile devices with small screens and keyboards more useful.
Nathan Koppel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 23, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Companies in litigation pay lawyers handsome sums to pore over their vast archives of emails, documents and other electronic records. The goal of this sleuthing is to identify which records contain information relevant to a lawsuit.
Paul Sonne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 3, 2010 at 8:53 am PT
U.K. officials ruled Wednesday that Google Inc. broke the law by collecting data from wireless networks for its Street View mapping service, reflecting growing scrutiny in Europe of the U.S. Internet company’s privacy practices.
John Paczkowski in News on October 29, 2010 at 3:30 am PT
Much as Google would like Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to follow the Federal Trade Commission’s lead and close his inquiry into the inadvertent collection of user data by its Street View cars, that seems unlikely. Blumenthal, whose office is spearheading a multistate investigation into Google’s Wi-Fi data-gathering debacle, says he has no plans to end it simply because of some announced improvements to the company’s privacy practices.
Jeanne Whalen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 26, 2010 at 11:07 am PT
WikiLeaks publishes top-secret documents about government and corporate intrigue.
Then there is John Young, who publishes documents about WikiLeaks.
From his apartment on New York City’s Upper West Side, the 70-something architect, computer buff and self-described “cypherpunk” runs a website, http://cryptome.org, that seeks to hold accountable the site that boasts of holding others to account.
