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There is good news and bad news for driver safety in the U.S.: The good news is that highway deaths fell to 32,885 in 2010, the lowest level since 1949, according to the NHTSA. The bad news, however, is delivered in the same report. The NHTSA unveiled a new measure of fatalities related to distracte...
Online game service OnLive is bringing its cloud magic to smartphones and tablets. The pioneer in cloud-based gaming has introduced a free app that allows gamers to play console-style games on their smartphones and tablets. Although the application was announced Thursday, when it appears in app sto...
A technical issue disrupted 4G LTE network service from Verizon Wireless for some customers between late Tuesday and late Wednesday, but the issue is now resolved. That's according to the company, which issued only a terse statement on Thursday morning. The term "outage" is "not entirely accurate" a...
One of the most-used leisure-oriented apps on my Android smartphones has been Google's free My Tracks. The app brilliantly measures data related to hikes and bike rides via the GPS radio. It tracks distance, speed, time, elevation, grade and so on. Pressing "Start" when setting off, and remembering ...
A glitch in Facebook's code briefly let people access private photographs of other members. The bug was discovered by a member of an online bodybuilding forum. This led to people accessing personal images belonging to other other members. Even the site's founder and CEO wasn't immune -- Mark Zuckerb...
Microsoft will begin accepting submissions for the Windows Store, its Windows 8 app store, when it unveils its Windows 8 public beta in late February. It also invited applications from devs to submit applications using the Metro-style touch user interface for inclusion in the Windows Store. The stor...
It's about time to change the stereotypical tablet user from casual and hipster to high-management. The post-PC world is now; tablets and other mobile devices are beginning to dominate the marketplace. An estimated 45 million tablets will be sold in 2011, three times the number sold in 2010, accord...
Motorola has announced two new Droid tablets, both of which will run on Verizon's 4G LTE network. The Xyboard 10.1 and 8.2 will be available this month, both online and at Verizon Wireless stores. The 10.1 will have a stylus and will come in three models, with 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB of storage. It w...
Jakob Nielsen, the design expert dubbed "the guru of Web page usability" by The New York Times and "the Web's usability czar" by WebReference.com, didn't find too many user-friendly features on Amazon's new Kindle Fire, according to a report he published on his website Monday. The device is too heav...
What a week it's been in the cybersecurity business! On Monday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a report that called for the establishment of a body with nationwide authority to oversee the securing of the United States' national power grid. Last week, Congress began working to pu...
NASA's Kepler mission on Monday confirmed the discovery of a small planet 600 light-years away from Earth in the "habitable zone" of a star not unlike our own sun. About 2.4 times the size of Earth, the newly confirmed planet -- called "Kepler-22b" -- is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle...
The United States needs an overarching national authority to oversee cybersecurity efforts connected to the national power grid, an MIT study suggests. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation have authority over the development of cybersecurit...
Google has launched a major interface redesign for YouTube. This latest change revamps the site overall. It also provides a new home page and simpler, customizable channels. "We want to grow the amount of time people spend on the site, and we feel that growing channels is a way to help them find the...
Well, it is December, when sugar plums fill children's heads and analysts look into their crystal balls to see what the new year will bring. Assuming the world doesn't end, 2012 should be a watershed year for personal technology, showcasing the beginning and end for a lot of companies, as well as ma...
WikiLeaks launched a new spinoff website called "Spy Files" on Thursday that will publish documents about surveillance and privacy violations worldwide. The site has a page displaying a map of the world indicating where various violations are occurring, and it lists companies involved in monitoring ...
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