What Google giveth, Google taketh away, and developers tapping into Google services had better just deal with it.That seems to be the prevalent attitude from Google, as the new update for the Google Maps app for Android begins to roll out today (with an iOS update on the way). At...
The Technical Steering Group is due to release the Tizen SDK 2.2 soon but as with every release it is preluded with a Beta release which is available to download NOW! No change log at hand at the moment but I will update this post once it has been received. Post updated...
American citizens fuming over revelations of digitally-enabled domestic spying by government agencies can take to the streets this 4th of July.Two organizations, StopWatching.Us and Restore The Fourth, have organized rallies in more than 90 U.S. cities this Thursday to peacefully protest surveillance operations undertaken by the National Security Agency and...
Apple today released a statement revealing that it, too, has received requests for consumer data from Federal, state and local authorities in the United States, even as it denied participation in the alleged PRISM program conducted by the NSA.Apple joins Facebook and Microsoft as companies that have made public batch...
Dirk Dallas, a graphic designer currently residing in southern California, downloaded the photo-sharing and -filtering app Instagram the day it came out on October 6, 2010. He then promptly deleted it.“It didn't make sense because unless you follow people or have followers, what is it?” the 30-year-old university professor says...
If Apple is scared of the U.S. Department of Justice, it sure isn't showing it.On Monday, in the opening rounds of the federal government's antitrust e-book case against Apple, company attorney Orrin Snyder called the Justice Department's claim against the company a "bizarre" case based on a "sinister inference," based...
Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL and founder of MariaDB, just came to a surprise revelation: most people use open source for free. What's so surprising, however, is not this fact, but the idea that Widenius wouldn't have learned this 13 years ago when he first released MySQL under the GNU...
The debate about app design largely centers around screen size.What if designers worried about digit size instead?Luke Wroblewski, a respected designer who sold a company to Twitter and more recently founded Polar, an app maker, thinks it's time to reconsider mobile design principles. Instead of worrying about questions like whether...
In the Gold Rush to accumulate and put to use Big Data, we may actually be making it harder to actually glean insights from that data. Yet the prospect of data solving all of our problems is so tempting that even the brightest minds of our generation seem confused.Take, for...
“Only the paranoid survive” – Former Intel CEO Andy GroveThings seem so good in the enterprise technology universe right now it is a little scary. The IT transition to cloud/mobile/social has entrepreneurs and investors salivating, with three significant forces at work:Real, not PowerPoint, multi-billion dollar opportunities are emerging for new...
Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com's hyperbolic CEO, has been telling anyone who will listen that the "sudden convergence of cloud, social and mobile spheres" is forcing - and allowing - companies to connect with customers in new ways, and to listen with an intensity never before possible.I'm sure the benefits of social...
While both Google and SAP shared a 1980's music sensibility at their respective conferences this week - Billy Idol performed at Google I/O and U2's Bono walked the floor at SAPPHIRE - the two companies see the future of computing very differently. Even when the two companies agree on the...
Guest author Derek Brown is a technology executive and analyst who blogs at One Blind Squirrel.Android, it seems, is the worm that eats away at Apple's core.According to Gartner, Android-based handsets outsold iOS-based handsets 4-to-1 on a worldwide basis in the first quarter of 2013, up from a ratio of...
The Internet of Things isn't really an Internet of anything, at least not yet. Sure, devices are connected to the Internet, but they don't communicate with other devices — just with their own home servers. But that may be about to change.A new common cloud platform dubbed Xively Cloud Services aims to...
Barrett Lancaster Brown, best known as the so-called former mouthpiece for the hacker collective Anonymous, is sitting in a jail cell in Texas. For the past eight months, Mansfield Law Enforcement Center has been home for the journalist and activist now known as Prisoner 45047177.Three hots and a cot will continue to be...
Paul Miller, a technology writer for The Verge, performed a curious experiment over the last year: He quit the Internet. Miller replaced his smartphone with a feature phone. He got his news through TV and newspapers. He embarked on what he thought would be a liberating journey to find himself and...
Google is sort of everywhere these days. Between its successful Android platform and the ubiquity of Google services for consumers and businesses, it's getting hard to avoid the big G. Yet when its rivals form an organization like FairSearch.org and start calling out the search giant as monopolistic and anticompetitive, no...
Reports yesterday that Apple had inserted itself into the world of publishing censorship have turned out to be completely inaccurate. Apple didn't ban the sale of a comic; the comic's distributor app did — though apparently only to pre-empt the Apple ban it anticipated.The kerfuffle centered on the banning of...
Three years after WikiLeaks shook up the international community by leaking more than 250,000 diplomatic cables, the organization is at it again. Yesterday, it unveiled 1.7 million documents from the era of Henry Kissinger in the form of a searchable database called PlusD. It's the biggest leak of previously classified...
Do music subscription services threaten music sales? Not if you ask Justin Timberlake.The rise of all-you-can-stream services like Spotify have made some artists nervous about the model's potential impact on music sales. It's why bands like Coldplay have delayed the arrival of new albums on Spotify and others, like the...
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