http://www.wiredmagazine.info Get Technology News And The Best Deals On Wired Magazine Subscriptions Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Supreme Court agrees to decide a case concerning "informational privacy." The Obama administration claims the case could undermine how much background data it may collect on the 14-million-person federal bureaucracy. More: continued here http://www.wiredmagazine.info/2010/03/10/supreme-court-takes-informational-privacy-case/ Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches. More: continued here http://www.wiredmagazine.info/2010/03/10/motorolas-backflip-will-make-you-come-unhinged/ Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on ... http://www.wiredmagazine.info/2010/03/10/amazon-is-building-a-better-browser-for-kindle/ For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on ... http://www.wiredmagazine.info/2010/03/10/safe-and-affordable-jetpack-just-90000/ Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy. More: continued here http://www.wiredmagazine.info/2010/03/10/mile-high-mega-kites-could-pull-giant-floating-power-plants/ Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act. More: continued here http://www.wiredmagazine.info/2010/03/10/apples-secret-iphone-developer-agreement-goes-public/ Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales. More: continued here http://www.wiredmagazine.info/2010/03/10/pink-floyd-emi-brawl-over-itunes-royalties/ The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement. More: continued here http://www.wiredmagazine.info/2010/03/10/lifelock-dinged-12-million-for-deceptive-business-practices/ Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second. More: continued here http://www.wiredmagazine.info/2010/03/10/just-how-fast-is-ciscos-new-router-really-freaking-fast/ Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think. More: continued here http://www.wiredmagazine.info/2010/03/10/your-computer-really-is-a-part-of-you/