Hello HTML5
If you've wondered why there haven't been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it's because we've shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards...
The New App Store Rules: No Swimsuits, No Skin, And No Innuendo
Over the last few days we've been tracking Apple's recent decision to remove all sexual content from the App Store. It's an alarming move on Apple's part, if only because it shows that the company is...
Rumor: The iPad To Go On Presale Next Week
It's time to warm up your credit cards folks. Despite the fact that you won't have it in your hands before March 29th (or 60 days after the announcement, according to Steve Jobs), you should be able ...
Subpoena issued in L. Merion webcam case
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the Lower Merion School District for documents related to the controversial use of remote-control cameras on students' school-issued computers, The Inquirer has lea...
Skype-Verizon Deal: More Details
Skype and Verizon announced a partnership earlier this week that would embed the Internet calling service on Verizon's smartphones. The partnership, at least to me, was driven by Verizon's fear of th...
WhoseTube?
MY band is famous for music videos. We direct them ourselves or with the help of friends, we shoot them on shoestring budgets and, like our songs, albums and concerts, we see them as creative works a...
New iPad Tidbits
We have compiled a bunch of new iPad tidbits with screenshots for your viewing pleasure below: — Lots of settings pop up if you know where to look: — YouTube Videos can play in HTML5 (this looks r...
The Myth of the Techno-Utopia
It's fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom. Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the ...
Can You Trust a Facebook Profile?
Do people display their actual or idealised personalities on social networking sites? — There are now over 700 million people around the world with profiles on social networking sites like Facebook ...
Twitter phishing attack in progress — don't click on “lol, is this you??”
don't click on “lol, is this you??” — If you receive a direct message on Twitter that says, “lol, is this you,” don't click it. The link will put up a fake Twitter login page, potentially tricking y...
Speaking Of Creepy Location Features: Google's Opt-Out Latitude Alerts
The past couple of days have seen some brouhaha over location privacy issues. Please Rob Me brought up the potentially troubling issue of tweeting out your location updates (and Foursquare responded)...
Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why?
Facebook has acquired its third company, Malaysian startup Octazen Solutions. Facebook says this is largely a talent acquisition, according to GigaOm. Octazen has a slightly different story on their...
Hello HTML5
If you've wondered why there haven't been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it's because we've shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards...
Couple marries in Apple store, quotes Steve Jobs in their ceremony
“Just had an unauthorized wedding in the apple store. Priest dressed as Steve Jobs. Read vows from iPhone.” So tweeted my friend Raygan Sunday night. Apple wedding? On Valentines Day? Indeed:
Wiimote-Controlled Robot Drum Circle Makes Human Hippies Obsolete
Robot or human, Berkeley residents still have to put up with the noise — A musician has harnessed the power of two Nintendo Wiimotes to become a cyborg percussionist with the robo-band Jazari.
Inside Apple's iPad: Adobe Flash
Apple's new iPad is being criticized for lacking the capacity to render interactive content built using Adobe's Flash platform, but the company shows no sign of reversing course. — Since the iPhone ...
Musicblogocide 2010: The Blame Game
Last week Google shut down a series of music blogs running on their popular Blogger service. All of the blogs were shut down for alleged copyright violations but at least six of the blogs were popula...
NY Times executives discuss plan to charge online readers
NEW YORK (AFP) - Top New York Times executives expressed confidence Friday that a plan to start charging readers of the newspaper's website from next year will not result in a significant loss of traf...
Beware the rogue Wi-Fi access point in Windows 7
SoftAP feature in the new OS could threaten enterprise security … The consumerization of IT is alive, well and causing all sorts of enterprise security challenges in the mobile arena. But highly visi...
Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told
WASHINGTON, D.C. Public access to research is “inevitable,” but it will be a slog to get to it. That was the takeaway message of a panel on the role libraries can play in supporting current and futur...
Software patents are the problem not the answer
Nathan Myhrvold and I have exactly the same goal. We'd both like to promote useful innovations that have a positive social impact. But we have very different opinions about how to do it. Nathan bel...