“Between Page and Screen” is a digital pop-up book that contains nothing but elegantly rendered QR codes on its printed pages says C/Net. Readers go to the book’s Web site, hold a page in front of their Webcam, and watch onscreen as a poem pops out of the quick- response code (and moves along as [...]
In its IPO filing Facebook mentioned the word “mobile” 123 times, says GigOM. But in most cases Facebook didn’t use the word mobile in positive ways. Of Facebook’s 845 million monthly active users, 425 million accessed Facebook in December alone through a smart-or feature phone app or through its mobile-optimized website. In 2011, 85 percent [...]
On Saturday, the FCC announced a request for comments (pdf) on the LightSquared situation. Comments are due by Feb. 27, and responses promised by March 13. LightSquared applauded the move. Lightsquared filed a petition for declaratory ruling to the FCC last month. The request is for input on LightSquared’s request for a finding on the [...]
A new bill being introduced by Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey would require cell phone makers and network operators to inform consumers about any location-tracking or information-sharing software/services that are installed on the device. Rep. Markey (D-Mass.), co-Chair of the Bi-Partisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, today released a discussion draft of “The Mobile Device Privacy Act,” legislation [...]
First responders in the San Francisco Bay Area may use a dedicated LTE network beginning next year, after a regional authority approved a 10-year deal for Motorola Solutions, funded primarily with a federal stimulus grant. The dedicated 700 MHz public service LTE network will enable first responders to use broadband applications on a private LTE [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled today that police must first obtain a search warrant before using GPS devices to track a suspect’s vehicle, agreeing with an earlier appeals court ruling but rejecting the Obama administration’s position on the case. The decision (pdf) in what is arguably the biggest Fourth Amendment case in the computer age, [...]
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