Texting While Driving Up 50 Percent Despite Warnings
It's bad enough that drivers talk on their cellphones while operating a motor vehicle, but the number of drivers turning to texting while driving is dramatically on the rise. With that rise, the number of highway deaths associated with phone distraction also increased. The laws in 35 states that make it illegal to text while driving are having little or no effect on the trend.
The NHTSA also held a separate telephone survey of 6,000 drivers and found that 18 percent of adults admitted to texting while driving, and about 50 percent of drivers aged 21 to 24 said it was part of their repertoire.
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FreedomPop to Offer Free Mobile Internet Access
Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype announced that his new company FreedonPop, along with partner LightSquared, will be offering free access to mobile broadband internet and phone service. Details are at a minimum at this point other than the service is scheduled to go live nationwide in the second half of 2012. Sound too good to be true? Well, you know what they always say about that
FreedomPop will initially target underserved markets. "The Internet is a right, not a privilege," said Matt Ingrid, COO of FreedomPop.
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NBA Fans Trade Twitter Accounts for Season Tickets
A couple of 76ers fans were just trying to help out their favorite team pick out a mascot when they ran afoul of the organization they were trying to help. The two had set up Twitter accounts for prospective mascots and received votes for them before they were contacted by the 76er organization and told to cease and desist. No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.
The team failed to set up Twitter accounts for the mascot nominees. So Rizzo, 23, and Coleman, 22, did just that. On Tuesday they registered the Twitter accounts @PhilEMoose and @BFranklinDogg..
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Verizon is Abandoning Its FiOS TV & Internet Service
Bad news for high speed internet in the US. Lowell McAdams, Verizon's CEO, announced that Verizon will end its active development of FiOS television and internet services. Verizon will maintain its existing markets, but will no longer be investing in expansion of the FiOS network.
Verizon would rather spend its money expanding its wireless business instead of the expensive costs associated with building out the FiOS infrastructure.
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Chrome Is Most Secure of the Top Three Browsers
Google Chrome seems to be finding its stride in the browser wars, first by passing Firefox as number two and setting its sights on Internet Explorer in the near future. To add to the accolades, Chrome has now been named the most secure browser of the top three by Accuvant Security.
Chrome's plug-in security and sandboxing architectures, meanwhile, are "implemented in a more thorough and comprehensive manner," making it "the browser that is most secured against attack," Accuvant says.
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Hewlett-Packard to Release WebOS as Open-Source
In a surprise move, Meg Whitman, the Chief Executive of the month for Hewlett-Packard has released the beleaguered WebOS into the wilderness of open-source. This will be the ultimate test of the viability of WebOS in what basically becomes a sink-or-swim situation for the software.
Why ever would a company want to release a once-valuable asset as open-source software that anyone can use for free?
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Today Amazon Will Give You $15 to Use PriceCheck
Amazon is offering up to a $15 discount on purchases today only for using the company's PriceCheck mobile app. This is good news for the consumer, but leaves the brick and mortar stores standing out in the cold.
There's little that brick-and-mortar stores can do to stop this. If they berate people for scanning their products with PriceCheck, they'll just push them right into Amazon's clutches
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Red Cross: Gamers Safe from War Crimes Prosecution
The International Red Cross has debunked the report that the organization would be applying war crimes rules to video games. Gamers everywhere can relax now, not that many took the report seriously anyway, but it's good to know that the International Red Cross has better things to with its time and donations.
The Swiss-based humanitarian group assured gamers Thursday that "serious violations of the laws of war can only be committed in real-life situations."
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Gaming Industry Hauls in $3 Billion in November
After what could be called a dismal summer season for the gaming industry, November sales have topped $3 Billion, an increase of 16% over last year's sales according to the latest marketing research from NPD. Software purchases were responsible for the rise in sales with the release of Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim, Battlefield 3 and Assassin's Creed leading the way.
"…..but hardware sales are down by nine percent due to slowing Wii sales and accessory sales are down approximately 34 percent over November 2010 ."
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10 Gifts Any Nerdy Couple Will Love
Christmas time is almost upon us and gift buying is in the crunch stages for most shoppers. The guys over at Digital Life have put together another one of their gift lists for Nerds. Some of these are pretty cool and would make great Geek gifts. The Hobbit House would be a bit on the lavish side, but hey, it's a Hobbit House after all and it is Christmas.
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University of Kansas Spends $3,000 on XXX Domain Names
In a pre-emptive strike against use of the school name in shady enterprises, the University of Kansas has shelled out $3K to buy domain names that could be associated with the school. The .xxx domain names went on sale to the public this week and sales so far have been brisk.
The AP also says Indiana University, Purdue University and Ball State University have snatched up their self-titled .xxx territory.
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Xbox LIVE Gold Features Free This Weekend
To kickoff the new Xbox 360 Dashboard introduced this week along with recruiting new Gold memberships, Microsoft is unlocking all of the Gold features this weekend for all to use. So make a beeline to your console and login to Xbox Live to get all of the free goodies.
That means for this weekend only, everyone will be able to play their games online, as well as connect with Facebook and use exclusive features like Lovefilm and Video Kinect.
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