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The Carrier IQ stuff just proceeds to get freakier. Yesterday it was revealed that the FBI is using the data collected by Carrier IQ for “law enforcement purposes.” Initially people thought it was just about phone carriers wanting detailed marketing info; by now it seems the trail of breadcrumbs leads to something potentially more...
When I want to read about a product I’m considering buying, I always read the bad reviews on Amazon. As a person who rates products and software professionally, I know that no product is perfect, so people who write five-star ratings are usually fanboy idiots, employees or shills paying their “good review dues” for...
I know what you’re thinking, grinches be grinchin’, so I’ll clarify: I love holiday music, have collected hundreds of seasonal MP3s, and I still rejoice every time “Last Christmas” comes on the radio. I would even go so far out on the Christmas tree limb as to say that there’s actually not enough pop...
The following excerpt is adapted with permission from Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time, now available from Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2011.The book arrives in stores December 13. After graduating from culinary school and working at Gramercy Tavern in Manhattan,...
You win some, you lose some, as the saying goes. Well, it seems that these days, Apple’s losing more battles than it’s winning in the great patent war of many fronts. Today the High Court of Australia dismissed Apple’s appeal, an overturning of the company’s initially successful ban on the sale of the Samsung...
The market for i-device docks has tended to favor smaller, more portable solutions for music on the move. But audio specialist Behringer stuck two fingers up to this trend and created an iPod dock the size of a car. The iNuke Boom (see what they did there?) is a four-foot tall, eight-foot long, 700-pound...
The name Speedo is a funny one. On the one hand, it’s the “I just got sand kicked in my face” swimsuit of nerd lore. On the other, Speedo is all about the advanced science of swimming and making athletes faster. The U.S. swim team is now getting an upgrade, courtesy of the brand,...
Almost 15 years ago, “girl power” was a term of female empowerment made popular by the lovey-dovey Spice Girls, who were constantly on MTV. Nowadays, that phrase has faded out on the network, and the MTV girls have a different type of spice: catty and competitive. A new study by the Parents Television Council found...
Click here to follow AskMen Fashion on Twitter.One of the fastest ways to ward off winter dreariness is to take up a cold-weather sport. Snowboarding is a top choice for thrill-seeking guys, and if you take to it, you’ll suddenly find yourself whooping with joy when the forecast says snow. To prepare you for...
People hoping the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was going to be the perfect Android phone will be saddened to find out that Verizon is cockblocking Google Wallet from the device. The awesome NFC (near-field communication) based payment system was presumably stripped from the phone’s app set because it competes with Verizon’s Isis NFC payment system....
Just as we were about to tell the Motorola Droid RAZR to step aside to make (little) room for a new, ultra-skinny Android mobile, we saw the specs and decided not to. Today, Fujitsu announced the Arrows ES IS12F, a cryptically named phone that is only 6.7-mm thick, 4-mm thinner than Motorola’s wafer-thin offering.The...
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“It’s A Man’s World” is a column on anything and everything related to the modern man, by Ian Lang. If there are any topics you’d like to see addressed here, send them to us at editorial@askmen.com or let us know what you think in the comments section.I was in my neighborhood CVS the other night, and I...
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