Tag: DEVICE

When Mattel's 'Puppy Tweets' opened up Twitter to the entire canine community, cat owners everywhere were outraged over what they saw as overt discrimination -- and with good reason. Why, pray tell, should a dog's inner thoughts be valued higher than a cat's? Would the animal kingdom really sit on its hands and allow Twitter to refuse service to an entire population, simply because of the size ...

America's largest movie theater chain wants to make rats out of all of us. This week, Regal Entertainment Group is greatly expanding its pilot program, which puts wireless "tattle" devices in the hands of frequent customers. The cell phone sized transmitters (photo) have four buttons -- "picture," "sound," "piracy" and "other disturbance." When pressed, the buttons activate a silent alert that ...

Junior's iPod is helping him do more a lot than go deaf at an early age -- it's also helping him cheat his way to better grades. According to the Associated Press, schools all over the world are banning iPods and other digital media players from the classroom because they are increasingly being used to cheat. The latest iPod ban came out of Mountain View High School in Meridian, Ohio, which found ...