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  Most Don’t Password Protect Their Smartphones – Here’s Why You Should

  If your smartphone fell into the wrong hands right this very moment, imagine the types of information that person would have instant access to. If you're like me, that unthinkable list includes things like your personal email, work email, Mint.com account, Google Docs, and all of the data you have...

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  What Are Developers’ Options for Tracking Actionable Data in Mobile Apps?

  Analytics company Claritics has announced a new version of its "social intelligence suite" with full HTML5 support to help developers analyze data from mobile Web apps, iOS and Android platforms from a single framework.There are a variety of companies that are trying to capture actionable data for developers to use...

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  Facebook Is As Big As The Internet Of 2004

  Facebook's population is currently at 800 million users, which is slightly more users than the Internet of early 2004, based on data from InternetWorldStats.com. Check out a chart chronicling the growth of the Internet after the jump.To put this into perspective, keep in mind that the Internet population of Europe,...

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  One Thing Facebook Can Never Do: Flickr Hits 200m Creative Commons Photos

  Yahoo-owned photo sharing service Flickr may have been eclipsed by Facebook as the world's most popular photo sharing site, but there are some things Facebook is probably never going to be able to pull off. For one thing, the creation of a giant public repository of rights-liberal photos available for...

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  Amazon S3: Hundreds of Billions Served, Now with Encryption

  If you ever wondered whether Amazon S3 would be successful, I think we have the answer. Yesterday, Amazon provided an update on S3 growth, stating that S3 now stores 566 billion objects. To make S3 even more appealing, the company announced today that they're adding server-side encryption to S3.Amazon isn't...

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  Kuwait Arrests Social Media Users: This Week in Online Tyranny

  Two Twitters and one YouTube user have been arrested recently in the Gulf country of Kuwait. Kuwaiti Twitterers Nasser Abul and Mubarak Al-Bathali and YouTuber Lawrence Al-Rishidi have all been arrested in the last month or two. Abul had issued "insulting tweets of the Sunni sect and severe criticism and...

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  Google Docs for Android Gets 3-Column Redesign

  Google has just announced a redesign for Google Docs on Android. The new interface uses a three-column view displaying filters and collections on the left, the document list in the middle and document details on the right.The Google Docs Android app launched in April, enabling mobile uses of the software...

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  Maine Was the Top State for Tablet Lovers in September

  Targeted mobile advertising firm Jumptap has released its MobileSTAT market share report for September concerning tablet and smartphone usage trends across the United States. The big surprise? The state of Maine had the highest tablet use in the U.S. in September, followed by other vacationland spots like Hawaii, New Hampshire...

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  Entertainment

  REAMDE: A Review

  Neal Stephenson's latest novel, "REAMDE," brings black hat hackers, MMORPG gamers, virtual gold miners, Russian organized crime figures, dope smugglers and the flotsam of post-Cold War intelligence organizations into a super freaky all-night disco dance party, evocative, in terms of its well-orchestrated spectacle and cast-of-thousands, of Cecille B. Demille (or...

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  Sparrow Rethinks the Email Attachment in Latest App Update

  The latest version of Sparrow's Gmail client for Mac users is now live in the Mac App Store. Although it's not a major release of the product, it does attempt to take a new approach to an old idea: email attachments. Sparrow 1.4 integrates with quicky-and-easy filesharing service CloudApp to...

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  Oracle Pushes Its Idea of JavaFX, Replaces Script with XML

  Is HTML5 a common platform for rich Internet applications, or a common toolkit for building rich applications on varying platforms? Oracle's response to that question came yesterday, and in typical Larry Ellison fashion, it essentially boiled down to, "We don't give a rip."When Sun Microsystems produced the first go-round of...

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  Ixonos supports the Tizen Linux Operating System

      Ixonos a member of the Linux Foundation and a creative mobile solutions company has announced its support for the Tizen Operating System. The company has experience of device software, connected devices and mobile applications. They join existing systems integrators such as EB, Nomovok, Cybercom and TDi in backing...

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  The Multiple Truths of Big Data

  Last week, Forrester Research tries to grok Big Data with a report entitled, Expand Your Digital Horizon With Big Data. And while it is somewhat amusing to see how they approach the topic as they would a new network router or new version of Office, ultimately the report falls somewhat...

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  iPad As A Notebook Alternative, Part 2 of 2

  The iPad comes with a dozen or so built-in apps. But if you want it to serve as a passable substitute for a Windows or MacOS notebook, you'll need some additional ones. Here are some suggestions, based on polling a number of business colleagues and other research. (Disclaimer: I haven't...

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  Big Question (Answered): “You’ve Seen the iPhone 4S… What Do You Think?”

  Following today's iPhone event, ReadWriteWeb writers took you through the paces. From Siri, snail mail cards, facebook integration and iCloud to what everyone expected, and why that was dead wrong, you know what we think about today's Apple event. You saw our take, now we want yours...You've Seen the iPhone...

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  Nokia Link now available for the Nokia N9

      Previously their was only a holding page for Nokia Link, but now the software is available for download. Nokia Link is compatible with Windows and Mac and performs a similar job as Nokia Synch and is used to synchronise and transfer files to the Nokia N9. Move your...

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  Adobe Acquires Developer of HTML5 Mobile App Framework PhoneGap Nitobi

      Adobe has acquired Nitobi Software, the creator of HTML5 mobile app framework PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. PhoneGap’s open source platform allows developers to build cross-platform mobile applications with HTML5 and JavaScript, and distribute these applications to a variety of platforms....

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  Chasing the Raspberry pi Dragon OpenGL ES2 Accelerated Qt PI

    The raspberry pi initiative is very compelling and (forgive me for the hype) just got even more compelling now that we have Qt 5 running with full acceleration on the target. A tagline of “An ARM Linux box for $25. Take a byte!” sums it up rather nicely and should...

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  20 Great Uses of HTML5 Techniques

    As one application programming, HTML5 is widely used in some platforms script based. One of the functions that can be optimized is the use of the HTML5 web design to application development. Some of the techniques that you can try are to do some modification of the script code...

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  How to Make All Browsers Render HTML5 Mark-up Correctly – Even IE6

    HTML 5 provides some great new features for web designers who want to code readable, semantically-meaningful layouts. However, support for HTML 5 is still evolving, and Internet Explorer is the last to add support. In this tutorial, we’ll create a common layout using some of HTML 5′s new semantic...