iPhone vs. Android
Don Kellogg, Senior Manager, Research and Insights/Telecom Practice, The Nielsen Company — Whether it's checking email on the go, connecting with friends through social networks or using turn-by-tur...
intellectual honesty and html5
OK, this is the post that contains everything that everyone on the inside of the browser market knows, but doesn't say out loud. It's time for someone to expose the emperor. It's a shame that the ma...
How a Silly Phone for Teens Reveals Microsoft's Plan for Us All
Despite its mobile prowess, Apple sucks at the internet. But surprisingly it's Microsoft—not Google—that's best positioned for Our Future in the Cloud. Here's why. — It's common for writers to tro...
Safari 5 to be launched at WWDC with Safari Reader?
MacGeneration reports that Apple is planning on a major update to Safari at this week's WWDC. Safari 5 will apparently include a Reader functionality that will make web page reading easier by extract...
Dark Side Arises for Phone Apps
Security Concerns Prompt Warnings — As smartphones and the applications that run on them take off, businesses and consumers are beginning to confront a budding dark side of the wireless Web. — Onl...
Does the Internet Make You Smarter?
Amid the silly videos and spam are the roots of a new reading and writing culture, says Clay Shirky. — Digital media have made creating and disseminating text, sound, and images cheap, easy and glob...
Join The Cult! Facebook Hoodie With Mysterious Insignia Found On eBay
Earlier this week during an interview at the D8 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did the unthinkable: after finding the hotseat a little too toasty for his liking, he took off his hoodie.
Expensive malware appears for Microsoft's Windows Mobile
Malware embedded into legitimate-looking games designed for Windows Mobile has appeared, automatically dialing up foreign telephone services to rig up hundreds of dollars in illicit charges for users ...
WWDC 2010 banners focus on iPhone OS 4 features, App Store success
Apple has hung even more banners inside the Moscone Center in San Francisco for its forthcoming Worldwide Developer Conference, but they don't reveal any details about what the company plans to announ...
4chan's Founder on Why Anonymity Can Be Valuable
Christopher Poole, the founder of the anarchic website and discussion forum known as 4chan, spoke earlier this year at the TED conference, and the video of his talk has just been posted (it's also emb...
Boxcar Brings Push Notification Management To The iPad — And Goes Completely Free
And Goes Completely Free — As a Push Notification addict, Boxcar for the iPhone is one of my must-have apps. Apple simply doesn't have a good way to corral notifications in the iPhone OS, so this th...
Zero-Day Attacks Hitting Flash, Acrobat
The mainstream 10.0 generation of Flash are vulnerable to an unpatched vulnerability which is being exploited in the wild according to Adobe. The 9.x versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat which incorp...
Airlines Work to Catch Up to the Digital Age
Airlines have made great technological leaps in recent years, allowing passengers to check in from home or download boarding passes on their smartphones. But if you've ever been stranded at an airpor...
Macintosh Project Genesis and History
I was recently looking at some of my father's, Jef Raskin old documents and came across his February 16, 1981 memo detailing the genesis of the Macintosh. It was written in reaction to Steve Jobs tak...
Exclusive: More Droid Xtreme Shots Released
Who wanted a back shot of the Motorola Droid Xtreme? Well here you go. You can see the beastly 8MP camera is embedded in that hump which we all have mixed feelings about. And it indeed says “HD VID...