Amid Privacy Concerns, Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs
Amid extra scrutiny from Congress around privacy issues, Apple this week has started rejecting apps that access UDIDs, or identification numbers that are unique to every iPhone and iPad.
Klout and PeerIndex Don't Measure Influence. Brian Solis Explains What They Actually Do
Whether you like it not, Klout, Kred, PeerIndex, and Radian6 are measuring your social capital — not your influence but your potential for it. Altimeter Group's principal analyst Brian Solis today re...
Yahoo Appoints Three New Directors in a Smack to Activist Shareholder (Like I Said!)
Updated: 3:59 p.m. with comments from Third Point. — Yahoo said it had appointed three new directors today, a move that is a direct strike back at activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point and hi...
MOG for iPad quietly makes its debut
It would appear that MOG's not the sort of company that lets some sales chatter stop it from shipping products. In addition to the native Windows app the company introduced Friday, it has now release...
Two US senators ask the Attorney General to investigate employers asking for Facebook logins
US senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have both requested that Attorney General Eric Holder investigate claims that some employers have started asking job applicants for their...
Card Case Adds More Merchant Discovery, Social Features To iOS And Android; Becomes ‘Pay With Square’
Square's consumer-focused loyalty and mobile payments app Card Case, which debuted in 2011, has been pushing the envelope when it comes to the future of payments, allowing for hands-free …
Factual's Gil Elbaz Wants to Gather the Data Universe
AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, “I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart.” That, he figured, would help him “discover things like time machines, robots and machines that can answer any qu...
Sean Parker And Shawn Fanning's New Social Video Startup Airtime Staffs Up For Launch
A few weeks ago at SXSW, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning briefly mentioned — during a talk about another company they co-founded, Napster — that they were working on a new social video startup called Ai...
Google charts a careful course through Asia's maps
(Reuters) - Google rushed out its panoramic Street View maps in Thailand on Friday as part of the country's efforts to show tourist hot spots have recovered from last year's floods. — But it also ma...
The Google Play problem: paying for ‘Angry Birds’ with battery life instead of money
Earlier this week, a report came out showing that some apps on Android use more than twice the power they actually need because they're running ads. Angry Birds in particular was called out …
Feds Will Require Contractors to Recycle E-Waste
The U.S. government is about to bar contractors who use computers bought with federal dollars from dumping the devices in landfills, an official said on Wednesday. — The new rule, which has not yet ...
Draw Something Changes the Game Quickly for Omgpop
At a cocktail party on the second floor of the expensive Bowery Hotel in Manhattan on Thursday night, as trays of stuffed mushrooms and thinly sliced filet mignon circulated, Charles Forman was marvel...
Twitter reportedly chooses Berlin for its German HQ
According to a report from Focus today, Twitter has chosen Berlin as the location for its German HQ. — In January, the company's Executive Chairman, Jack Dorsey said at the DLD conference in Munich ...
The Future Of The Virtual Personal Assistant
Norman Winarsky is the Vice President of Ventures and Bill Mark is the Vice President of the Information Computing Sciences Division at SRI International. Norman and Bill helped found the Siri ventur...
Tough times in the U.S.-China iPad smuggling game
(Reuters) - Early on the morning of March 16, Wong Tat joined a line of about 100 people waiting for the launch of the new iPad in a chilly rain outside an Apple store on the outskirts of San Francisc...