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Thursday, 22nd December 2011

Apps Are For Android, Games For the iPhone

The iPhone is the domain of the game. Android is the land of the app. 2011 showed some very distinct trends in user activity on the two major mobile platforms. A study done by Xylogic shows that of the top 25 app publishers for iOS, only one does not produce games. On the flip side, of the top 25 for Android, only about half are game…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Jack Goldman (1921 - 2011), Materials Scientist, IT Pioneer

We call it "IT," and the reason is because a physicist first realized that information, like any other subatomic phenomenon, was both a particle and a wave. It was a product unto itself, and Dr. Jacob "Jack" Goldman created the environment for the concept to take root. I know you're thinking Xerox PARC. Actually, I was thinking the Ford Motor…

Enterprise Scott M. Fulton comments

New Kik API Allows Users to Send Apps Over Messenger

One of the few things that Research In Motion has done well in recent years is it implementation of BlackBerry Messenger. RIM specifically has excelled at BBM's ability to send data and software, such as apps, to create a truly mobile app-sharing ecosystem. Rival messenger system, Kik, has announced a new API that will create much the same…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

What is Wrong With Today's CMS

I started using my first content management system around 1997, when things were crude and clumsy. You would think in the past 15 or so years time would heal all and improvements would be made, but you would be wrong. The modern CMS is still in a state of flux. In the early days of the CMS we had major players such as OpenText (which didn't really…

Enterprise David Strom comments

What Makes It Art? You Decide On ArtOrNot.info

ARTorNOT is a user ratings-powered knock-off of trashy meat market site HotOrNot.com. Acting as both parody and social commentary, ARTorNOT asks its users to decide if the content they look at for maybe three seconds is "art." The site itself raises more philosophically inclined questions about who ultimately decides what "art" is - the Internet…

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