A Rundown of Facebook's Places For many, location-based smartphone tools are odd -- and potentially creepy. But now that Facebook has joined the fray with Faces, users are more likely to jump on board. How does privacy fit in? |
Why Use Location-Based Apps? Facebook's news that it plans to drag its 500 million users into the location-sharing craze raises an important question: Why in the name of Ferdinand Magellan would anyone want to do such a thing? |
Wal-Mart To Roll Out 'Smart Tags' Wal-Mart is putting electronic identification tags on men's clothing like jeans starting Aug. 1, trying to gain more control of its inventory. But the move is raising eyebrows among privacy experts. |
Software Takes Texting Off the Road Technology is emerging that could solve the growing menace of texting while driving, including software that disables the texting, e-mailing and web-browsing functions of a cell phone in moving cars. |