Outside the Beltway

In other news, this week we learned that AIM still exists.

Previewing the next term of the Supreme Court, which starts today.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court accepted a case that will determine whether the Fourth Amendment allows law enforcement to obtain location data without a search warrant.

A Super Bowl ad will cost you a cool $5,000,000 for thirty seconds.

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

Nude photos of hundreds of students in one Colorado high school are being distributed.

Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.

Most managers work beyond 9-to-5.

Another case of teenagers ‘sexting,’ another dumb overreaction by law enforcement.

The head of Blackberry thinks he can save his company by getting the government to force others to make content for Blackberry phones

With major theater chains having pulled out, Sony bowed to the inevitable, but now there appears to be proof that a foreign power is behind the Sony hacking attacks and threats of violence.

Adapting a relic of the 20th Century to the 21st Century.

WaPo’s Emily Wax-Thibodeaux reports that, “At CIA Starbucks, even the baristas are covert.”

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are pushing back against Apple and Google’s efforts to provide greater privacy to users.. They’re wrong.

Freedom Of The Press, if you can afford to pay the fee.

A recent change by Apple is good news for advocates of privacy and civil liberties in the Internet Age.

A nation known for adopting new technology is behind the rest of the world in one interesting way.

Dedicated reading improves our brains and our health—unless it’s on a computer screen.

In some sense, justice has prevailed.

The law’s insane over-reaction to teen “sexting” has gotten even more insane in one Virginia County.

Another area where the law has not caught up with technology.

Modern devices are more fragile, frustrating, and resource intensive than those of a decade ago.

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A unanimous Supreme Court rules that the Fourth Amendment bars police from searching your electronic device without a warrant.

A committee of journalists who work in the “traditional” media has once again denied press credentials to SCOTUSBlog.

Some thoughts on Amazon’s new smartphone: Fire

The news gets worse.

Vladimir Putin wants to put the Internet genie back in the bottle.

Today’s oral argument before the Supreme Court on the issue of police searches of cell phones and smartphones left much up in the air.

The Justice Department thinks police should be able to search the smart phones of anyone arrested for anything.

Massively faster wireless internet service should be available in early 2015.

Politics, media, and the attention span of the average American haven’t really changed as much as we think.

Can you still buy batteries there, though?

Seven years ago, Steve Jobs showed us that we could literally hold the world in the palm of our hand.

A bunch of people talking on cellphones during a plane flight would annoy the heck out of me, but the government shouldn’t be involved in deciding if it should be allowed.

Some signs from Silicon Valley seem to indicate that the heady days of the 90s Tech Bubble are returning.

Imagine all these people talking on the cellphones during a long flight, or even a short one.

Finally, the FAA acts to end a pretty dumb rule.

Once dominant atop the smartphone market, Blackberry seems to be counting out the days until its demise.

Apple’s new fingerprint sensor. A cop’s best friend?

Managers want their employees to get off email and pick up the phone.

Every piece of mail you send and receive is being logged by the Postal Service.

Cellphones have achieved near complete market penetration, and the smartphone is leading the way.

Will drivers really be okay with Google tracking everywhere they go in their self-driving car?