big brother

Spotlight GPS is Big Brother for your pets (in a good way!)

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/spotlight-gps.jpg" alt="spotlight-gps" title="spotlight-gps" />Do you have a dog that constantly gets away from you? Do you hate chasing

New service enables total control of factory workers

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dss_ankle_sensor.jpg" /> In principle, any advance in any field of technology is welcome, but I have my doubts about this new service de

Big Brother takes taxi to Beijing Olympics

Just add it to the list. Hotel rooms, offices, residencies and now taxi cabs. Visitors to China will be closely watched, monitored and recorded. As the U.S. State Department has said: All visitors sho

RFID services moving closer into the retailing mainstream

The EU-funded SMART project is looking to finalize the technological hurdles that have hindered the widespread acceptance of the data containing tags. Utilizing radio waves, the information can be sha

Spyware company Gator sheds its skin yet again

So there’s this new startup called NebuAd. I know, sounds promising already, right? Well, NebuAd does packet inspection, tracking users, the sites they go to, the ads they click, and so on. Not

Comcast testing technology to watch you watch it watching you

[photopress:130_126big_brother_is_watching_you_posters.jpg,full,center] Not to frighten everyone, but word is Comcast is going to put cameras on its set-top cable boxes to know who in your house is wa

NTT DoCoMo Releases 3G Big Brother Mobile

Watch out Japan, your healthy unhealthy addiction to porn is being curbed by NTT DoCoMo’s 3G FOMA F903iBSC(wtf) “business-use” mobile phone. The mobile is being launched in response to i

SnoopStick: A Big Brother for the Only Child

If you’re one of those stern parents worthy of being called a fascist, then allow me to direct your attention to the SnoopStick. This USB device comes imbued with software that allows you to mon