Tampa Bay Times

But thermostats collecting personal data is not a hypothetical. In fact, by 2017, more than half of the thermostats sold in the United States will be of the "smart" variety, according to market research firm Parks Associates.

From the article "Can You Place A Price On Privacy?" by tampabay.com

It's been a few years, but this holiday shopping season again features a pair of brand-new video game consoles for consumers to quibble over in the form of Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One.

These are the first new consoles from either company since 2005, when the Xbox 360 came out a full year before the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii. That time window broke the traditional five-year development cycle, thanks in part to the Great Recession and life-extending ge ...read more