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...choose to hear the instructions through the FM radio in your car's own sound system. Because a road trip could get pretty boring if you had to keep your radio tuned to your turn-by-turn navigator, Alpine included a rudimentary MP3 player. Take any old SD card (sold separately), fill it with MP3s or WMA files, including protected files you download from Yahoo! and other online stores, pop it into the card slot and the music player inside will find it all and blast it through your FM stations. People who use FM transmitters for their iPods will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alpine Blackbird Portable In-Car Navigator | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...mails. “I was a little worried, but only because there was this random person walking around,” she said. “I wasn’t sure what was going on.” Although almost every door in Cabot requires a swipe card, Zhang said that many students enter unchecked through the dining hall. “There are a ton of students who get off the shuttle and go into Cabot. It would be really easy to come in that way,” she said. “You?...

Author: By Rebecca L. Ledford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Intruder Pesters Cabot House | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...come up. Tagging along in the modest swirl of D.C. cocktail parties, I was the half of the couple who watched people's gaze drift during conversation as they searched the room for someone a little more plugged in. No one remembered my name or asked for my card or paid for my lunch. I was unexpensable. My husband twice received handsome engraved invitations to presidential dinners. For those events and many others, I was the perpetual plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lobbyists in Love | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

Clark's allies in Congress drafted a bill to ban the sale of wireless-phone records, but it stalled in the Senate last week. In the meantime, spy outfits pose as subscribers to obtain records, then sell them to private investigators, divorce lawyers or anyone else with a credit card. Verizon Wireless and other carriers shut down one notorious data broker, Locatecell.com "There are thousands of companies doing this," says Robert Douglas, a security consultant and former private investigator. He notes that there are about 60,000 licensed private investigators in the U.S. "Unfortunately, anyone worth his salt knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy in Your Pocket | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...also attended the Cologne Furniture Fair in Germany and sent 80% of his $3 million output to 20 countries. Through a screen of plastic bamboo along his office window, he points out the new factory he's building next door. He shows off a United Arab Emirates health-insurance card, which grants him medical treatment in Dubai, where he just opened his first foreign shop. "By Anji's standards, we have a small business," he says. "We're middle of the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy vs. China: Sitting Pretty | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

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