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If You Throw This Fitbit in the Washing Machine, It’s Really Your Fault This Time
Fitbit introduces the Flex wristband, its answer to the Jawbone Up and Nike FuelBand.
An iPad Dog-Whisperer (And Other Crazy Pet Apps)
Now Fido’s barks can be shared to your Facebook.
In Activity-Tracking Race, Larklife Band Comes Up Short
This Lark doesn’t sing.
Weighing In on Wi-Fi Scales
Can these high-tech scales help you keep those New Year’s resolutions?
Atrix 4G: Faux Laptop With a Phone For Brains
Walt reviews the Motorola Atrix 4G Android smart phone, which acts as the brains of a small laptop device.
Microsoft's Browser Boss Dean Hachamovitch Touts Privacy Features at D@CES
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is still the world’s most popular, but its dominance is being steadily eroded by competition from Mozilla, Google and Apple. Can a new, aggressive approach to privacy change that?
No One Is Happy With the FCC Chairman's Speech, Except Broadband Investors
Everyone has something to say about today’s speech by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the subject of net neutrality. Having been blocked in the courts from imposing sanctions on Comcast for throttling users of BitTorrent, the commission has been spinning its wheels trying to find a way to nudge the broadband industry in a direction toward treating all Internet content fairly.
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Web-Based Amateur Private Eyes Enhancing Store Security
A new business attempting to help small retailers minimize shoplifting by harnessing the power of the Internet with existing security camera technology is showing some initial results as it works to improve stability and reliability. Internet Eyes is meant to help small stores that have CCTV installed but that lack the manpower to monitor the video feeds constantly.
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BlackBerry Gradually Getting More Spy-Friendly in India
Indian officials are reporting a bit of progress today toward their requirement that Research in Motion and the nation’s telecoms make BlackBerry communications accessible to security agencies. Home Minister G.K. Pillai told Reuters that authorities can now get printouts of BlackBerry Messenger conversations within four or five hours of making the request to RIM. They are hoping to have real-time access by the end of the year, he said. The means to monitor BlackBerry’s encrypted corporate email system remains elusive, however.World Without Wires: Wi-Fi Alliance Endorses WiGig
The Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that certifies the wireless industry standard, said this morning that it is allying with Wireless Gigabit Alliance to promote WiGig, a new short-range wireless specification capable of delivering data speeds of up to seven gigabits per second in the 60 GHz band.