It’s not a Kodak moment for many owners of the HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 handset as reports of camera issues on the phone are beginning to mount. According to owners and press alike, the HD7, a popular phone in the WP7 line, has camera issues that lead to the camera application failing to load, repeatedly. This leaves users opening the app time and time again, to little avail, as it will close before it finishes launching....
Windows Live has been in the process of rolling out a number of updates over the past several days, one of which was a revamped sign-in page that dramatically altered the previous design. In the old view, accounts were listed in vertical rows, and each had the options to have its username and password saved. This was convenient for a family computer, or any PC that had several different people using it throughout the day....
While I’ve oftenlamented about my hatredfor any task management software, I have to admit that I might have stumbled over something that even I can’t argue against. It’s a tiny little app calledTaskBadges, for Mac, and it truly is beauty in simplicity. TaskBadges is a TextEdit-based to-do list. Fire it up, add some tasks and you’ll see an icon showing you how many you still have yet to complete. It ships with a couple of example lists, so you can select whichever you’d like and see how the system works:...
Prisoners across the US could soon be subjected to a high-risk application of automated surveillance. A congressional committee is pressing the Department of Justice to explore the federal use of AI to analyze inmate’s phone calls. The panel has called for further research into the tech’s potential to prevent suicide and violent crime,Reuters reports. The system transcribes phone conversations, analyzes the tone of voice, and detects certain words or phrases that are pre-programmed by officials....
A few months ago I received an email from Vodafone. It was addressed to 1000+ Vodafone subcontractors. I know, because they were all listed in the CC field. I can imagine several of those subcontractors going through the list, finding out who their competitors were and maybe giving them a call to discuss and coordinate their upcoming negotiations with Vodafone. Last night at 1am, I received an email addressed to every technology blogger and journalist in The Netherlands....
