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Friday, 29th July 2011

How Will Data Throttling Affect Mobile Users?

AT&T has announced that starting on Oct. 1 it will throttle the data speeds of users with unlimited data plans who exceed bandwidth thresholds on its 3G network. AT&T is following in the tracks Verizon and Virgin Mobile in reducing data throughput speeds of its heaviest mobile data users. With more data-intensive apps being published everyday…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Mobile Health's Potential

Mobile phones could be used to track peoples' physical activity and other health factors, using data gathered from existing community groups to track performance against baseline standards for health, rewarding individuals and groups exhibiting healthy patterns, and changing our relationship with food, exercise, medicine, insurance and general…

Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Infrastructure Gut-Check: Four Questions You Need To Ask

Your startup's early infrastructure decisions are probably the most painstaking and time-consuming ones you'll have to make, for both the technologists and the businesspeople on your team. It is hard to know what your company and product will need (and be) 6, 9 or even 12 months down the line - especially today, in the era of the pivot, and the…

Enterprise Craig Knighton comments

Facebook Bug Bounty Program

Facebook today is launching a "bug bounty" program where it will pay researchers who find bugs and vulnerabilities in Facebook and report it to the company to be fixed. Developers who find bugs and report them to Facebook through its "Responsible Disclosure Policy" will be rewarded starting $500 or more, with no cap on how big a bounty developers…

Social Dan Rowinski comments

Towards a SQL-like Query Language for NoSQL Databases: UnQL

A few months ago we told you about a paper by Microsoft researchers, Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman which argued that non-relational data stores will need to create a standardized database query language in order to achieve widespread adoption. Today a new potential standard for document databases (and possibly other NoSQL databases) was…

Hack Klint Finley comments

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