With Google's takeover of Motorola, a lot of the focus has been on how it will affect the Android ecosystem. Google claims that nothing will really change and that Android will remain open and free to its partners. The major Android partners seemingly agree that the Google is doing the...
Microsoft announced today that it will discontinue its Microsoft Reader e-book service. New e-books in its LIT format will be discontinued on November 8, and the app itself will be unavailable effective August 30, 2012, although existing customers will still be able to access it.Reader has been around since 2000,...
Runkeeper, one of the most popular new apps for tracking exercise data, this morning launched its ambitious Health Graph API wide open to the public. The platform for integrating apps and hardware with the fitness data tracking service had been tested in private alpha for several months by a select...
There is a middle ground in Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility that is not just about just patents. It is not all about Google controlling its own original equipment manufacturer. Nor is it about solely defending the future of the Android ecosystem. This is about Google's standing in the mobile...
The most open thing going on in the Android realm today may be warfare. Today's announcement of Google's intent to acquire Motorola Mobility, the producer of many Android phones and a prominent contributor to the Droid brand, points to a new and severely altered landscape for mobile apps where absolutely...
Google and the Associated Press have joined forces to offer a scholarship program for student journalists administered by the Online News Association. The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will offer six undergraduate or graduate students $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 school year.From the press release:"The program is targeted to...
Since its launch at South By Southwest Interactive this year, Yobongo has been a quiet startup. It hasn't made best-thing-since-sliced-bread pronouncements or it's-the-x-of-y elevator pitches; it has just quietly kept working on its simple promise to, in the words of co-founder David Kasper, "help people communicate with new people around...
Editor's note: This morning news broke that Google has acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. The move is a fork for Google in that it is getting into the device business on a large scale for the first time in its history. The big discussion surrounds the fact that part...
As anybody who's had to purchase college textbooks in the last several years knows, they can be quite the hassle. Not only do their already-steep prices keep rising, but getting rid of them at the end of the semester isn't always easy. Amazon Student, a new iPhone app that launched...
Ever since Google's latest social platform, Google+, began limited testing in late June, the question among both prospective developers and prospective members has been, how will it compare to Facebook with respect to privacy? Although Facebook has taken incremental steps to help its users protect the data they may intentionally...
Google and Motorola Mobility announced this morning that Google will acquire the mobile handset manufacturer for $12.5 billion. Android will remain open and Motorola will remain a licensee of Android. Google will run the Motorola as a separate business. Across the world, there are Android-based original equipment managers that feel...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is software that comes with a license that gives users certain rights. In particular the right to use the software, to modify it, to obtain its source, and to pass it on. Nokia has a vast range of open source projects under it. Some...
The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise.This week we look at a...
Experian Hitwise reports that YouTube just had its biggest month of traffic ever in the UK. In July, YouTube accounted for 1 in every 35 UK Internet visits, period. The boom in traffic is due to massive growth in mobile viewing.Since January, mobile visits to YouTube have doubled in the...
Tablet computers running Android have collectively begun to challenge the dominance of Apple's iPad, stealing 20% of the iPad's market share in the last year, according to ABI Research. While no individual tablet, be it the Motorola Xoom or Samsung Galaxy Tab, comes close to challenging the iPad directly, all...
How do you deal with all those Web analytics snippets, header tags for authenticating with various services (like Google Webmaster Central and Quantcast), A/B testing tags, etc.? Are you unsure which tags you still need, or what tags added by other collaborators actually do?Several services have sprung-up to try to...
On Monday, 34 American Civil Liberties Union affiliates across the U.S. sent 379 records requests to local law enforcement agencies seeking to know when, how and why they are using cellphone location data to track American citizens. The ACLU wants to know if law enforcement is going over the heads...
New data from comScore show that 14 million Americans, 6.2% of all mobile users, scanned QR (quick response) codes or bar codes with their mobile devices in June 2011. Users who scanned QR codes were more likely to be male (60.5%), between ages 18-34 (53.4%), and have a household income...
This week, Nokia's North American president Chris Weber went on a bit of a press tour to tout the upcoming Nokia Windows Phone 7 release. He told AllThingsD that the much-anticipated Nokia N9, based on MeeGo, will probably never reach U.S. shores and that Symbian would get phased out of...
If you are an Apple MobileMe customer, now is the time to start planning your transition to Apple's iCloud service as some parts of MobileMe are going away. While the move from MobileMe to iCloud is bound to be rocky, the good news is that there are third-party alternatives. However,...
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