Online Detective Work Helps Nab Bad Guy With Stolen Laptop
- June
- 11
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The guy who ended up with Kim Lingel’s stolen MacBook and iPhone wasn’t counting on Joey Carenza III.
“When he gets the scent of something and it really intrigues him, he’s on it,” says Lingel, 25, who counts Carenza as one of her best friends. “He’s tenacious.”
You don’t want Carenza on your trail. He is a [...]
Kindly doctor advised patient wisely
- April
- 13
Many years ago, in the spring when the grape hyacinths were pushing up through the crunchy dead vines and debris not yet swept up from winter, I lay in a hospital bed, my mother standing by my side as a surgeon held my hand and told me I had endometriosis. I knew this meant I [...]
PODCASTThe World’s Smartest End Table, Smoking Your Phone, Document Standards Gone Wild
- April
- 11
Smoke Your Phone?
Sure, if you chop your cell phone into little pieces, roll it up and smoke it, it probably won’t be good for you.
However, one Australian neurosurgeon says your mobile phone is more dangerous than cigarettes, even if you just talk on it.
Vini Khurana reviewed several studies, as well as a number of articles [...]
Church is a guide not a bully
- April
- 8
Sometimes words poke at me like the spiny protrusions of a fat puffer fish poke, poke, poke. Many people have written about Barack Obama and the pastor of the church he chose to attend for 20-plus years. I read a lot of it, all interesting, and some of it irritating. My column today has [...]
Harley event to include cars auction
- April
- 6
Trash and treasure sale The Woman’s Club of Eustis will have a trash and treasure sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 12 (rain or shine) at its clubhouse, 227 N. Center St., Eustis. To rent a space to sell crafts, treasures or yard-sale items, call [...]
PODCASTApple’s ‘Malware’ Tactics, Motorola’s Split, BitTorrent’s New Friend
- April
- 3
Motorola Calls It Splits
Having watched its shares lose nearly half of their value in the last year while its cell phone business languished, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has decided to split into two publicly traded companies, separating its mobile devices business from its broadband and mobility solutions group.
With no successful follow-up to its popular Razr [...]
TECH BLOGLive From the Tech Policy Summit: The Communications Explosion
- April
- 3
Opening Up
Today’s highlights included a keynote by FCC Commissioner
Robert McDowell, who opened up his address by noting that the summit
reflects “the wonderful reality that we are privileged to live in the
most exciting time ever in the history of communications.”
Half of the world’s population now has a cell
phone, he observed. “No technology has ever penetrated this [...]
TiVo Sells More, Loses Less Than Expected in Q4
- March
- 18
Red All Over
The Alviso, Calif.-based company has never had a profitable quarter, but CEO Tom Rogers assured investors in a conference call Wednesday that it would continue to narrow the gap toward profitability as it creates partnerships with cable and satellite TV providers.
Cox Communications announced Wednesday it is launching a trial in New England markets [...]
TiVo Sells More, Loses Less Than Expected in Q4
- March
- 18
Red All Over
The Alviso, Calif.-based company has never had a profitable quarter, but CEO Tom Rogers assured investors in a conference call Wednesday that it would continue to narrow the gap toward profitability as it creates partnerships with cable and satellite TV providers.
Cox Communications announced Wednesday it is launching a trial in New England markets [...]
A Journey Into the Automated Abyss
- March
- 14
Testing, Testing
Depending on which study you read, customer call centers have improved a bit. However, we hate to take anybody’s word for it. So we conducted a very small and wholly unscientific study.
I rustled up some guinea pigs (i.e., begged friends and family) to help make calls. We chose obvious companies like the cable and [...]
