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Google reaches agreement with FTC over Buzz (via Fortune Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine)
Google has agreed to receive an independent review of their privacy procedures once every two years as well as a user opt-in requirement before privacy changes are enacted. In a blog post today, Google (GOOG) outlined an agreement with the FTC over privacy concernes connected to the release of Google … Read More via Fortune Tech: … Continue reading
How Amazon will lead the way to cheaper tablets (via Fortune Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine)
By busting up the Open Handset Alliance with its Appstore, Amazon will make cheaper Android tablets more desirable and perhaps cut Google out of the loop. Today's Amazon/Woot! is a $285 10-inch Android tablet by display-maker Viewsonic. While $285 for a 10-inch tablet from a name brand seems surprisingly inexpensive, it is a sign of … Continue reading
Can I get out of my T-mobile contract? (via Fortune Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine)
Now that it’s set to become part of AT&T, many T-Mobile customers are wondering, “Will they let me get out of my contract?” It’s the question T-Mobile doesn’t want to answer yet. By Daniel Roberts, reporter It seems anyone with a cell phone contract has had the thought, whether due to owning an antiquated phone, … Continue reading
Hard freezes in new MacBook Pros (via Fortune Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine)
Reports of overheating under heavy loads are piling up in Apple's discussion forums "The fans revved and suddenly I could use nothing but the cursor. Had to hold down the power switch to kill all and then re-power & startup. I wasn't doing anything unusual, but I had 7 apps open and was amid an … Continue reading
AT&T-Mobile: Merger brings efficiencies, but will consumers see the benefit? (via Fortune Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine)
T-Mobile and AT&T say they won't have to raise rates to make more money after the merger, but it's hard to see how they could resist. At a recent investor conference, T-Mobile's top executives made a point of belittling data plans for smartphone users offered by rivals AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ). T-Mobile's entry-level data … Continue reading
AT&T Buys T-Mobile, Deprives Desperate Sprint (via 24/7 Wall St.)
Just days after rumors that Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile would merge, AT&T (NYSE: T) bought the Deutsche Telekcom US division of $39 billion. The deal dashes Sprint's hopes to challenge AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless. DT and AT&T said "they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA from … Continue reading
Belonging Matters: Researchers Halve Racial GPA Gap with Brief Exercise (via TIME Healthland)
The racial gap in achievement between African American and white college students has been stubbornly persistent — but an hour-long intervention conducted during freshman year can halve the GPA lag by graduation time while simultaneously improving health, according to a new study published in Science. The research has implications for all students facing social transitions … Continue reading
If Charlie Sheen were Black. . .
Writer’s Indecision I’ve been trying to decide what to write about for the past week. I had a severe case of writer’s indecision. I just could not settle on one topic. For one thing, anything I wanted to write about had to have my Black person‘s point of view. With that in mind I started … Continue reading
Do We Really Control Our Society?
A friend posted on his Facebook wall a link to a disturbing trend in local communities. It turns out that the Affordable Housing program is having the opposite effect that it was designed to do. I wrote a comment, to cheer him up letting him know that even though he is a politician, there are … Continue reading
Bobby's World 
5 Things That Make Me Question My Blackness
Before I get started on this slippery slope of what’s acceptable behavior for Black people and what’s not, let me make one thing clear. I know who I am, I don’t question my ethnicity one iota, what I do question is the overwhelming acceptance by the wrong people who don’t understand that Black people are a … Continue reading →
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