A 1991 news report about parents angry over Super Nintendo shows little has changed in 20 years. For one thing, the video, recently unearthed by Reddit, shows that many parents have always been confused and upset by the popular electronic medium. They're still worried about their kids playing too much today. Parents also...
Soon, Spotify will be joining us all where we hang out the most: the World Wide Web. The wildly popular streaming music service is breaking free of its app-only confines and launching a browser-based version, the company confirmed. This is great news. An Awkward Relationship?To date, Spotify's relationship with the Web...
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The launch event for Google’s new Nexus 4 phone and Nexus 10 tablet was supposed to be in New York. That was canceled at the last minute, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. So instead, Google announced the devices in a blog post Monday morning. Isn’t it a pain when real life...
News.me just announced that its amazing iPhone and iPad news reader apps have been pulled from the App Store. The app draws the best articles from your Twitter feeds, but it displays them in ways that violate Twitter’s new display guidelines. News.me will still support the apps for existing users...
The privacy freakout sparked by hacker group AntiSec's leak of Apple user identification numbers last week turned out to be unwarranted. But the Anonymous offshoot taught us some things about the culture of paranoia that has become a feature of our digital lives.The group claimed that it had pilfered millions of iPhone/iPad...
Yesterday we outlined why topic pages are becoming increasingly popular on the Web, as a way to organize social or news content. As daily consumers of such content, we're used to the chronological (and often real-time) ordering of updates from Facebook, Twitter, blogs and more. But the latest wave of...
Facebook calls its new pilot program to put more advertising in your newsfeed a “small test.” But that small test could lead to a big gamble.The new program, for the first time, lets marketers display ads in the newsfeeds and mobile feeds of people who have not liked, or whose friends...
Well, the experiment worked. A Swedish design firm called Day4 set out to demonstrate how easily false information could turn into news online, and boy was it successful. The company produced a mock-up image of a screw with an asymmetrical head, ostensibly designed by Apple to prevent users from tinkering...
Despite notching its first-ever quarterly loss, Microsoft’s fourth-quarter results beat analyst expectations, giving the software giant some breathing room as it heads into a year of major change.The loss comes due to a $6.2 billion write-down for one of its acquisitions in early July and a deferral of $540 million...
A Web design studio built the first news site I’ve ever read from top to bottom two days in a row, and it did so as a side project. Mule Design is not in the journalism business. It builds sites to solve all manner of client communication problems. But it...
At a swanky launch party last week, Huffington Post unveiled a new iPad-only magazine called simply Huffington. It's a new outlet with a new business model, an upscale departure from the loud, lewd, unavoidably popular website. The click-driven, sensational approach was burying HuffPo's serious journalistic efforts, so it's trying a...
The Knight Foundation has announced six winners of the first round of this year's Knight News Challenge. Past winners have been ambitious projects, broad in scope, many of them as part of major parent organizations in journalism. But at least in Round One, this year's crop proposes fairly obvious ideas....
Sports news website Bleacher Report (B/R) was mentioned twice in Mary Meeker's 2012 Internet Trends report: as an example of re-imagination of both sports news and TV. Bleacher Report, founded in 2006 by four sports fans from Silicon Valley, has become so influential that Time Warner is rumored to be...
The Following story was published at Oreilly Radar: A couple weeks ago, MIT Technology Review's editor in chief and publisher Jason Pontin wrote a piece about killing their app and optimizing their website for all devices with HTML5. That same week, Lonely Planet's Jani Patokallio predicted that HTML5 would...
It all started with a pack of diapers. Ted Mann, then a regional digital director for Gannett and a new dad, was waiting in line to pay for diapers when he realized he hadn't brought the coupons. Like so many coupons clipped from the local paper, they sat in what Mann...
Today, Google announced two new computers, the latest Chromebook laptop and a new desktop machine called the Chromebox. After reading Jon Mitchell's thorough review, it became apparent that there's now very little difference in user experience between the Chromebook and a traditional laptop (for example, one from HP that runs...
Even as all sorts of questions swirl around last week’s initial public offering and this week’s release of a camera app that looks a lot like the camera app it paid $1 billion for last month, Facebook has taken its usual quiet stance, issuing as few public statements and offering as few public answers as possible...
Data transfer speeds have been getting faster and faster, but that doesn't mean that we're actually reaping the full benefits. A few years ago, Jim Gettys put his finger on the "criminal mastermind" behind poor networking performance. Dubbed Bufferbloat, the problem was not a simple one to solve. Not simple,...
The Wine development release 1.5.3 is now available. What's new in this release: Support for graphics bounds tracking. A number of fixes to the builtin Internet Explorer. Support for displaying ARM code in the Wine debugger. Various DirectMusic improvements. Better namespace support in MSXML. Various bug fixes. The source...
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