Tag archive: hearing

Deaf since birth, 29-year-old Sloan Churman had been wearing hearing aids since the age of two. Eight weeks ago, she had a Esteem hearing implant surgically placed behind her ear. After allowing the implanted area to heal, Ms. Churman went into the doctor's office to have the device turned on. After a bit of calibration, she was able to hear her voice for the very first time and her husband captured the moment of the first moments on… Read More

Sen Al Franken (D-MN) and other members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law took Apple and Google to task on Tuesday for the companies' collection of mobile users' location data. While nothing definitive was accomplished, the hearing provided another opportunity to learn more about why the two tech companies collect user location data, and what exactly they are collecting. To kick off the hearing,… Read More

The Free Press—which runs the Save the Internet campaign in favor of network neutrality—has accused cable provider Comcast of hiring people to fill the hearing room at the Harvard Law School where the FCC yesterday conducted a hearing looking into complaints Comcast blocks traffic from peer-to-peer file sharing applications. At the hearing, the FCC acknowledged that ISPs have a right to engage in reasonable network management,… Read More

Apple Computer has released a software update for its fifth-generation video-capable iPods and the iPod nano which, along with fixing a handful of bugs, enables users to set a maximum volume limit for their portable music players. In addition, users can assign a password-like combination to the setting

A lawsuit filed this week in San Jose federal court (PDF) on behalf of John Kiel Patterson of Louisiana alleges Apple's now-ubiquitous iPod music players are “inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss.” The suit does not say whether Patterson personally suffered hearing loss from an iPod, but he is pursuing certification of his lawsuit as… Read More

Starkey Laboratories, a maker of hearing aid technologies, entered into the wireless Bluetooth space today as it unveiled the ELI, or Ear Level Instrument. To be available through Starkey's family of companies, the ELI is what the company is calling the first ever device to turn hearing aids into wireless headsets. The ELI is designed to provide wireless Bluetooth connections between hearing aid wearers and the array of Bluetooth… Read More

The issue will get a high-profile hearing next week, when the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to convene a workshop on the dangers of spyware. In a common scenario, such programs might bombard victims with unwanted ads or, more rarely, allow hackers to snoop on Web surfing activities and steal confidential data such as passwords to on-line bank accounts. Monday's FTC hearing, which will draw technology executives, lawmakers,… Read More