For years now, it’s been drilled into our heads that good security is an important part of a desktop computer. While we know that the same holds true for mobile devices, there seems to be some disconnect between this fact and the way we use our devices. Whether the wireless nature of the technology gives […]
Zombie cookies aren’t dead yet! Over a year ago, lawsuits were filed against Disney, Warner Brothers, MySpace, ABC, and NBC Universal for using persistent tracking cookies able to defeat most attempts to disable, block, or purge them. These zombie cookies were originally spawned using Adobe Flash technology, but Adobe promised to update their software to […]
If you listen closely, you can hear real game designers all around the world laughing in Zynga’s face. Zynga, the Vanilla Ice of the gaming industry, was hit by yet another patent suit last Wednesday. According to a press release by Agincourt Gaming, “Agincourt, a recent entrant into the social gaming space, owns foundational patents […]
Music Beta by Google has a great set of features for listening to your music collection on the go when your storage is limited, but leaves users with no way of finding any music they don’t already own. Yesterday, Google launched the first step in solving this issue, and they’re calling it Magnifier.
Like the various uprisings of the Arab Spring, the London riots have led to a surprising amount of talk about the technology people use when operating en mass against the government. Text messages, Facebook, Twitter, and now Blackberry Messenger have all been targeted by governments as the sources of uprising.
The headlines exploded earlier today as Google announced its plans to purchase Motorola’s mobile phone division, Motorola Mobility, for $12.5 billion. The news is still sending shockwaves through the mobile tech industry, with many wondering what this all means and what the ramifications of it will be. First off all, this doesn’t mean that Google’s relationship with […]
Can we find immortality? It looks like technology might be catching up to this long sought-after goal of not kicking on to the afterlife (or absence of one).
You know what I just cannot stand? Apps that are just shortcuts to a company’s mobile site. For every site that makes an app that brings something even slightly different to the table, you have a dozen that are basically glorified browser shortcuts. I think a lot of this stems from the old days of […]
One look at the official Facebook page for the English Defence League (EDL) would give most people more than just pause. “I see the bbc [sic] have removed all non white faces from there coverage and just show burnt cars now,” says one commenter of the riots consuming parts of London and Manchester as of […]
The world’s most popular website for, what a professor of mine once called “largely unreliable,” online reference material is facing a dilemma: fewer people are interested in contributing to it and editing it. Wikipedia is considered largely reliable by the online community and tends to have a lot of self-monitoring. However, those numbers have been […]
