News An iPad App that Stays in Sync with Your TV The days when TV viewers did nothing else while watching their favorite shows are long over. Instead, many viewers now multitask while watching TV and browse the Internet on their laptops, iPads and smartphones. Now, a new iPad app from ABC (iTunes link) wants to bridge this gap and turns the iPad into an interactive companion to the TV network's… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features Day 2: Intel AppUp Elements 2010 Day 2 of Intel AppUp Elements 2010 included topics to help developers make money with apps, promote apps to increase success, and understand the continuously evolving apps ecosystem. Attendees also had access to Blackbelt level developers and Adobe AIR developers. Let's take a closer look. Hack Jay Cuthrell View comments
Analysis How an iPhone App Got Me to Pay for Music I thought the affair was long over - I'd thrown everything away and I'd changed all of my habits. I'd moved on with my life and everything was going along just fine and then, out of nowhere, it happened. For the first time in nearly a decade, I went and did something I was pretty sure I wouldn't ever do again - I spent money on music...on the… Play Mike Melanson View comments
NYT Twitter Permissions: How Much Do You Trust Your Apps? Earlier this week, a Google engineer was caught spying on users, and a few old emails from Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he had easy access to user profiles in the early days of the service. As we move more and more of our personal information into the cloud and onto social networks, we really have to trust these companies… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
WiMAX 3G, 3.5G, 4G, LTE & WiMAX: Beyond the Marketing Speak Few consumer technologies are as encumbered by arcane acronyms as modern cell phones. Right now, the buzzword in the mobile industry is 4G. The problem, though, is that none of the current networks actually fulfill the International Telecommunication Union's requirements for being called 4G. The technologies that are currently in the market and… Frederic Lardinois View comments