Shops secretly track customers via mobile phone

From Jonathan Richards, Times Online
Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones.
The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they take as they [...]

It’s easy being green

By Brian Won, Ars System
The color green
For years and years, computing was all about performance. Faster CPUs, better video cards, more RAM—all to make sure you had the biggest and baddest box on the block. Recently, we’ve seen a new trend, focused mainly on lower-energy, more efficient computing. The marketing buzz says that a green [...]