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GoPro The GoPro Hero 3 camera, which was unveiled last week, records images during a skydiving trip.While the smartphone has pushed some camera companies off a cliff, a tiny, ultrahigh-resolution camera that can record that very feat has taken off into the stratosphere, figuratively and literally. Read more…
A forum on Reddit, a community and social news site, has set off a debate about privacy and free speech after it encouraged people to post covert photographs of women, writes Jenna Wortham in her Sunday New York Times column. The pictures, nicknamed “creepshots,” incited outrage and provoked other members of the site and some journalists to publicly out those distributing the suggestive images. These actions, in turn, prompted an outcry from those who felt that they should be able to retain their own anonymity while posting photographs of women without their consent. Read more »
Microsoft instituted a policy that gives the company broad leeway over how it gathers and uses personal information from consumers of its free, Web-based products like e-mail, search and instant messaging. Microsoft’s policy is now much the same as those of Google, write Edward Wyatt and Nick Wingfield. Google’s expanded powers drew scathing criticism from privacy advocates, probing inquiries from regulators and broadside attacks from rivals, including Microsoft. Read more »
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Friday’s selection includes Jeff Bezos of Amazon on the virtue of changing one’s mind, a home solar company starting to work with utility companies, and a start-up described as “Twitter, with a business plan.” Read more…
Apple is widely expected to introduce a smaller, cheaper version of its iPad on Tuesday, perhaps in response to the crop of seven-inch tablets that have emerged from competitors in the last year. But how are those tablets doing anyway? Read more…
The impact of the mobile wave rolling across the technology industry is the underlying theme seen not only in Google’s seemingly disappointing earnings, but in a recent string of company and industry reports. Read more…
Zappos founder Tony Hsieh has a plan to turn Las Vegas’s derelict core, with its liquor stores and weekly hotels, into a place where his employees might want to live. Read more »
Datawind Suneet Singh Tuli, the chief executive of Datawind, with the company's tablet device.After a rocky start, the computer made for India’s schools is now a 7-inch touchscreen tablet, with Wi-Fi and Google accounts. It comes with ads, and its manufacturer is planning a business model that takes the machine to adults in India, and eventually the West, under the radar of more expensive competition. Read more…
Airtime, the much-hyped video chat site created by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, the two behind the music sharing service Napster, has turned out to be far from a sure thing. The site is just four months old, and the staff is tweaking its features to make it more appealing. So far, though, Airtime’s traffic appears to be little more than a trickle. Read more…
The Active System 800 will help Dell provide cloud services to companies.Dell just announced a unified system of servers, storage, networking and software that employs technology from several of the companies it has purchased in the last few years. Having so many new products, the company argues, saves it from supporting legacy businesses with its R.&D. Read more…
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Thursday’s selection includes a 25,000-person consulting firm switching to iPhones and Android phones from BlackBerrys, a look at Silicon Valley housing values and a gallery of computers as portrayed in movies (one even uses punch cards). Read more…
Businesses caught soliciting favorable reviews are increasingly running the risk of getting slapped with a badge of shame, particularly on Yelp, David Streitfeld reports in Thursday’s New York Times. Read more…
Sprint Nextel will obtain the interests in Clearwire held by Craig O. McCaw’s Eagle River Holdings, simplifying a relationship with Clearwire that has hampered Sprint’s attempts to overhaul its network. Read more »
Quarter by quarter, eBay defies the conventional wisdom that troubled Internet companies can never return to their former glory. Read more »
The heightened competition for keywords has driven up prices and made them harder for small companies to afford. Read more »
