February 22, 2012
- A selection of smartphone apps allow users to create their own ringtones.
- Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses, but questions have been raised on how privacy will be regulated.
- Smartphones may some day help people take better control of their health by tracking it with increasing precision and convenience.
- Amazon pulled more than 4,000 e-books distributed by the Independent Publishers Group off its site this week after it failed to exact better terms from the distributor.
- The fastest high-speed Internet service is courtesy of OnLive Desktop Plus. The “plus” is a 1-gigabit-a-second Net connection with Adobe Reader thrown in.
- The decline, in Meg Whitman’s first full quarter in charge, cut across all divisions. Dell Computer also reported lower net income.
- Here's how Rick Sammon captured an arresting photo-realistic take on a South Beach streetscape.
- In its filing, T-Mobile, the No. 4 cellphone carrier, told the F.C.C. that Verizon’s acquisition with cable companies would place an “excessive concentration” of wireless spectrum in Verizon’s hands.
- A new app called “The Guitar Collection: George Harrison,” scheduled to go on sale Thursday, offers an interactive way to get close to the former Beatle’s cherished instruments.
- The software maker ratcheted up its battle with Google, which acquired Motorola Mobility last year, by accusing the cellphone maker of making its patents too expensive.