The music industry is flatlining, but music apps are bigger than ever
Between 1999 and 2009, U.S. music industry revenues were cut in half, thanks to the demise of overpriced CDs, the advent of cheap, song-by-song downloads, and piracy. Since that time, the bleeding has stopped, but the industry has yet to bounce back to its heady late-90s heights.
October 30, 2014 at 09:04PM
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My Week With a Flip Phone
Lately the flip has been discussed as a sort of “status phone” among cool people, like pretentious technophobes and Anna Wintour, so I’m wondering if my newly acquired flip phone will provide me entry to this club.
October 30, 2014 at 09:04PM
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Google ordered to pay a woman $2,250 for Street View image showing cleavage
Earlier this month, a Quebecois court in Montreal decided that Google owed a woman $2,250 for picturing her with “part of her breast exposed” in a Street View image. The woman was sitting in front of her house, and although her face was blurred out, she was still identifiable by her coworkers, especially as her car was parked in the driveway without the license plate blurred out.
October 30, 2014 at 05:54PM
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Twitter Mobile Ad Shop Using Verizon’s ID to Track Users
Twitter is using a newly discovered hidden code that the telecom carriers are adding to every page you visit – and it’s very hard to opt out.
October 30, 2014 at 04:48PM
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Is the traditional metal key becoming obsolete?
Since the Pharaohs, people have been using keys to lock things up. The metal key has proved remarkably resilient, but as electronic locking devices become ever-more popular, are the days of the humble key numbered?
October 30, 2014 at 03:37PM
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Ford develops a ‘black box’ for cop cars
The long arm of analytics is coming to law enforcement. Ford has announced a new technology co-developed with Telogis that will monitor the driving behavior of police officers. In fact the little black box will be like a humorless traffic cop in every patrol car.
October 30, 2014 at 03:37PM
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Google must pay Canadian woman $2,250 for showing her cleavage in Street View
Google is in trouble over Street View again, after one of its cars took a photo of a woman on her stoop, and showed “part of her breast.”
October 30, 2014 at 10:22AM
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Prepare for the part-time self-driving car
Within the next five years, you’ll be able to buy a car that can drive itself (and you) down the highway, although transforming into a Decepticon-battling robot or crime-fighter may take a while longer.
October 30, 2014 at 10:22AM
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Why So Many American Retailers Are Fighting to Freeze Out Apple Pay
MCX — the coalition of retailers at the heart of recent decisions to block Apple Pay — says it could eventually embrace that technology that drives Apple’s brand new payments service. But it seems that coalition will continue to freeze out Apple Pay.
October 30, 2014 at 09:14AM
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The guy behind Google Wallet is back to change payments all over again
Poynt is the coolest credit card reader you’ve ever seen.
October 30, 2014 at 08:08AM
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