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Tuesday, 31st January 2012

PhoneGap Build Support Comes to Version 1.4.0

When it comes to the pace of mobile app innovation, there are a couple leaders in the field that need to be watched on a regular basis. Foremost among them is the PhoneGap, also known as Apache Cordova these days. Call it the leader of the leaders. Today the company announced the newest version of its platform, PhoneGap 1.4.0. In addition to fixing…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

EFF Tries to Get Megaupload Data Back

In the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown that unfolded nearly two weeks ago, the story has splintered into a few interesting directions. One of the more controversial issues is the fate of the personal data stored on the now-defunct service's servers. Yesterday, news broke that the data could be at risk of deletion as early as this week, if…

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Internet of Things

Top Tech Video of the Day: The Ultimate Way to Stalk Your Boss

The creator, Michael Shirley, describes it like this: "The device is triggered by a reed-switch sensor that monitors magnetic proximity. The signal is sent through an Arduino board to a Processing sketch, which tells the computer to snap a webcam photo of Peterson and upload it to Twitpic with a saying chosen from a pool of prewritten zingers…

Social Abraham Hyatt comments

SGI Crams 2.37 Petabytes Into One 19-inch Rack

The "G" in its name used to stand for "Graphics." A few decades ago, the most delightful room for one to be in during a computer conference was the one where Silicon Graphics was showing a demo. It was like one of those dreams where you knew you weren't really on-board the Starship Enterprise, but you forced yourself to ignore that fact and…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Gaze into Your Virtual Facebook Mirror

If you feel compelled to curate more of your Facebook life, there's an app for that: Timeline Movie Maker. Go to TimelineMovieMaker.com and click the green button. As with most Facebook apps, this one asks for your basic info, email, profile info and your Timeline stories. Then Timeline builds a one-minute movie for you. It's similar to Intel's…

Social Alicia Eler comments

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