Your cheating phone (02 Dec 2004)
Jakob Nielsen, a specialist in computer interfaces, worries that all this technology has made its users too accountable. “You don't want your phone to start squealing on you,” he says. “Sometimes you might want to take a call by the pool, or in your pyjamas.” He need not worry: there is a constant stream of new ways to facilitate phone-based deception.
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