This fearsome contraption is the handiwork of a couple of amateur DEFCON-types who reckoned that any self-respecting spy plane ought to be able to impersonate cellphone towers. And that... Read more
It doesn’t have quite the appeal of sending a robot to do your shopping, but this Smart Cart service being trialed by SK Telecom could definitely take some of the hassle out of trollin... Read more
Although the number of Wi-Fi hotspots has increased dramatically in most places over the past few years, the explosion in the number of smartphones and laptops attempting to make use of such... Read more
Two University of Pennsylvania students who designed a wireless energy transmitter took the $5,000 top prize at Friday’s PennVention competition. Ten teams of student inventors from the Univ... Read more
You may think the only people capable of snooping on your Internet activity are government intelligence agents or possibly a talented teenage hacker holed up in his parents’ basement. But so... Read more
Techdirt.com is a fascinating blog that covers the current wars being fought around copyright, intellectual property, patents and other areas that may impede or help the free flow of informa... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Internet entrepreneurs climb on stage at technology conferences and praise a world in which everyone is perpetually connected to the Web. But down in the audience, where... Read more
Image via Wikipedia At the Toorcon 12 hacker conference in San Diego on Sunday, Seattle programmer Eric Butler introduced his Firesheep add-on for the Firefox Web browser in an effort to bri... Read more
Image via Wikipedia EVEN as the number of airlines is dwindling — look at Southwest’s plan to buy AirTran, announced on Monday, and the imminent merger of United and Continental — the busine... Read more
Image via Wikipedia There’s some big news about Line2, the iPhone app I reviewed in March. As I’m sure you remember, I wrote: For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to shak... Read more
Image via CrunchBase Someday, they’ll build wireless Internet into every building, just the way they build in running water, heat and electricity today. Someday, we won’t have to drive aroun... Read more
Students endure hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from school in this desert exurb of Tucson, and stir-crazy teenagers break the monotony by teasing, texting, flirti... Read more
The AR.Drone is meant for consumer use New from electronics maker Parrot comes the AR.Drone, a Wi-Fi helicopter with dual cameras and augmented-reality video streaming, that you control usin... Read more