We Welcome Our New Robot Lifeguard, E.M.I.L.Y.
It’s a toasty summer day. You finally managed to slip away to have some fun on the water with friends and family. As you float, basking in the sun, something suddenly goes wrong and you find yourself struggling to swim. Just as you’re about to go under, something appears beside you to offer assistance. You […]
Live Vicariously Through This Rampaging T-Mobile Customer
Until recently, I lived in New York City, a town whose general stance on customer service is “death before helpfulness.” This sentiment was particularly true in the various Verizon stores I visited over the years, where the employees seemed to take a special joy in actively destroying their customers’ hopes. I’m told other carriers’ retails […]
Adobe Slows Down Flash Support On Android
Adobe announces today, via their blog, the discontinuation of support for its Flash video player for new Android devices. As of August 15, the Flash application will no longer be available for downloading from the Google Play store, except for Android devices that already have a previous version of the player on them. Adobe warns […]
Run Android Apps On A Mac With BlueStacks
BlueStacks has released a public alpha test version of its App Player for OS X at the Google I/O conference. The product was originally announced as a beta release for Windows users in March, allowing users to run any Android app without modification. The current attempt to extend this functionality to Mac OS X users […]
Wyndham Resorts Draw FTC Ire When Too Much Data Checks Out Early
Only weeks after the FBI warned travelers of an increasing risk of data theft while using hotel internet connection, the FTC files a complaint against the Wyndham hotel chain for alleged failures in data security. Wyndham hotels had three security breaches within less than two years’ time, ultimately leading to hundreds of thousands of customer’s […]
Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet Revealed At Last
There have been rumors for some time that Google will release it’s own tablet. Recently it became more and more evident, and now the device is here. Except it’s not exactly what I was expecting. Rather than compete with Apple in the 10″ category, Google has firmly aimed the Asus-built Nexus 7 at a category […]
Apple Gets Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Pulled Off U.S. Shelves
Apple’s been doing well in the lawsuit department lately. Sure, Apple’s patent case against Motorola was thrown out of court, but the company that Jobs built managed to seriously delay HTC’s recent hot phones earlier this month. Now, it’s struck a major blow against Samsung. A federal judge in California has ruled that the Galaxy […]
FIRST! CNN Blunders With Obamacare Ruling Coverage
Dan Gillmor, author of the book Mediactive, wrote an increasingly relevant post in 2009 after botched reporting of the shooting in Fort Hood, Texas, in a call for what Harvard University’s Ethan Zuckerman calls a “Slow-News Movement.” Like many other people who’ve been burned by believing too quickly, I’ve learned to put almost all of […]
Eyeona: A New Way To Save Money
Like a shopping mall that destroys local mom and pop shops, internet shopping has wreaked havoc with brick and mortar retailers. I can admittedly speak up as part of the mass exodus to almost exclusive online shopping. The majority of non-grocery items I buy are, by a wide margin, from Amazon. I order groceries from […]
Chiclet Keyboards Become New Classic For Notebooks
It seems like only yesterday when Apple announced its new line of notebooks with unibody aluminum cases and a dramatic change to chiclet keyboard keys (first seen in the MacBooks and then adopted across the product line). While this keyboard design wasn’t an Apple invention by any means, it’s rarely seen on modern computers. I […]