October 23, 2007
“There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment…. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” –George Orwell, 1984
It used to be that troublemakers could lounge […]

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Video production is exploding and sites such as You Tube are driving the market.
Pure Digital Technologies CEO Jonathan Kaplan had a simple idea: Video cameras were too hard to use. Last year, this 6-year-old San Francisco-based company introduced a $129 point-and-shoot-style camcorder, initially sold just at Target stores. Recently, the company unveiled […]

Company Will Monitor Phone Calls to Tailor Advertising
Big Brother Is Listening?
September 25th, 2007
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This has to be one of the wackiest business ideas I’ve heard of in years (and there’s certainly been some doozies). Companies like Google scan their e-mail users’ in-boxes to deliver ads related to those messages. Will people be as […]