When Mobile-Phone Payments Go Social
Your cell phone could soon tell your friends what you're buying and where.
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Tom Simonite
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I’m MIT Technology Review’s IT editor for hardware and software and enjoy a diverse diet of algorithms, Internet, and human-computer interaction with chips on the side. Working in our San Francisco office, I cover new ideas about what computers can do for us, whether they spring from tech giants, new startups, or academic labs.
My journey to the West Coast started in a small English town called Wantage and took in the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and five years writing and editing technology news coverage at New Scientist magazine.
Tom Simonite's Stories
Connecting Credit Cards with the Social Web
Twitter's founder talks about his new business, and getting people to share details of their purchases online.
Needed: Apps for Google TV
After tepid reviews for the first Google TV products, Google's hoping a flood of apps will generate excitement for the platform.
App Organizes the World Inside Your Smart Phone
Aro goes through the clutter of texts, calls, and e-mails on a device to make sense out of a chaotic social network.
Using Twitter to Track Dropped Calls
Unhappy customers often tweet their gripes—now AT&T is mining those complaints to improve its service.
One Login to Rule Them All
Facebook makes a bid to be the bedrock of all mobile and location-focused apps.
Corporations Going Totally Wireless
Mobile broadband services are becoming competitive with fixed data links—which means businesses should be able to cut their wired connections.
Power to the People
A new search engine, Blekko, uses human editors to promote quality pages and block spam content from its results.
Someone's Watching You
New software can track workers' activities in great detail to improve communication, but is it too much information?
