Nine black Boston police supervisors are suing the city of Boston in federal court, claiming the test for promotion to lieutenant is discriminatory against minorities. Promotions to lieutenant in the Boston Police Department are based heavily on a writte

[1]Apple CEO Tim Cook (Image by Getty Images via daylife) While most companies today would love to be able to claim growth rates in the high single digits, revenue last quarter grew 73% [2]. How did Apple achieve that? While most people agree that sales

It is just as crazy for Joe Lacob to believe he might land Dwight Howard as it was for Lacob to believe he could outbid Larry Ellison. Yet Lacob and Peter Guber came out of nowhere and slid in front of Ellison to buy the Warriors in July 2010, and now La

Short-attention-span reading, and writing. It is just as crazy for Joe Lacob to believe he might land Dwight Howard as it was for Lacob to believe he could outbid Larry Ellison. Silly. Outrageous. Yet Lacob and Peter Guber came out of nowhere and sl

The recent revelations that some iPhone and Android apps are uploading and storing users' phone address books without permission is very troubling. It not only violates the privacy of the person using the phone but, potentially, everyone in that person's

"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb "Ask GiantPain about my penis" - Billy Beane Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux. If Cain is with us, who can be against us?

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Jonathan Schwartz, the former Sun Microsystems CEO who departed after Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) bought the server systems maker in 2010, is mounting a comeback with a social media startup that promises to make caring for sick loved o

[ABOVE: "You're really well connected," says Apple. So now are Twitter, Facebook and who knows who else?] I've said before that I worry about iTunes. There's a certain hypocrisy to the position that a service which variously chooses to: police political

Apple's promising to close the loophole that allows apps to harvest the content of users' address books without specific permission. A couple of weeks ago, it was revealed that a number of applications - most notably the Path photo-sharing app - were upl

Apple is facing an investigation by the US Congress after it emerged that a number of apps downloaded on to the iPhone will take a copy of the owner's address book - including phone numbers, addresses and other details - without fully alerting the user.

Just how private is your iPhone's address book? That's exactly the question that the U.S. government is asking Apple in light of news that a number of apps are harvesting names, numbers, and email address from your phone's address book and uploading them

The Lexus LF-A is the car that Toyota is hoping will relieve Lexus of its stodgy, boring image. Lexus has spared no expense in building the car; every feature is unique. The V10 is not used in any other Toyota product. All of the carbon fiber used in the

With Apple (AAPL) approaching $500/share and a $500 billion market cap, it is time to look elsewhere for better investment opportunities. As we will show, Apple is so massively overvalued on a relative basis that the same $460 billion that make up its ma

Last week, independent iOS app developer Arun Thampi blogged about his discovery that the social networking app “Path” was accessing and collecting the contents of his iPhone address book without ever having asked for his consent.[1] The information take

Apple received a letter from Congress today, asking CEO Tim Cook to answers questions by Feb. 29 about how its app developers handle the privacy of iPhone users. It’s in response to last week’s news that Path, a social networking app, was caught by blogg

Path scandal raises data collection worries US House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Commerce Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee Chair G.K. Butterfield have together sent a letter to Apple, asking whether "iOS app developer polici

Cloud computing has become an important element of every enterprise IT provider’s business strategy and it is long past time to treat “a cloud [as] water vapor,” as Oracle CEO Larry Ellison famously said in 2009. Even Oracle is now well-entrenched in the

Having been the subject of questions regarding its collection of user locations in the past, Apple has been sent a letter over concerns that developers may be accessing and storing user data on its products. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, the legisla

Ask me about my blog. He would run this place much better. Yeah, that’s right. Not much you can do when I take your obvious, half-kidding material away from you, is there? Assholes. Ask me about my blog. You suck as both a blogger and a human. LOL! Don’t