More 18,000 Likes and 11,000 Tweets for a media product not created by a big media company. The really, really cool thing about this story is the math underpinning it is easily understandable and, moreover, numbers of this size aren’t beyond what an average person can imagine. Is this enough to kill Universal, Warner or Sony? Probably not, but it’s good news nonetheless.
Only 20 months ago HP paid $1.2 billion to buy Palm, with webOS the apparent reason for the otherwise odd-seeming purchase. Now the company is releasing the system on an open source basis.
What do you want in a smartphone? For many people, “is a phone, does that touch thing and can play Angry Birds” pretty much covers it. If the salesperson adds “free” or “buy one, get one free” to the pitch and the customer’s walking out the door with a bag.
One of the most serious problems in the wake of any tragedy is matching those wanting to help with those in need. Whereas it can sometimes take days for government and NGOs to pull those threads together, one enterprising techie made this happen in a matter of minutes.
There was a time when the Web was an interesting place, with lots of information, the possibilities for numerous virtual relationships, and much more, all in a relatively unregulated place. Say good-bye to all that.
When Gartner talks about tablets, people generally listen, and the latest from this most well-known of all analyst groups says that the tablet computer market is going to stay big, especially for Apple’s iPad.
Android 3.0 also known as Honeycomb was the hit of CES this year. This version of Android developed specifically for tablet computers was found on the tablets of a variety of manufacturers including Motorola’s Xoom that took top honors as best gadget at CES.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed an order to switch the country’s governmental computer systems to open source inside four years. It appears the move is financially rather than politically motivated.
Google’s lack of control over their Android mobile operating system is causing streaming video giant Netflix to delay support for all Android devices and may keep it from supporting some handsets at all.
Well, this apparently is the season for suing rivals. Apple has recently filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Motorola, and lawsuits against HTC and Nokia. And those are just Apple’s lawsuits.
Mozilla had planned to release Firefox 4 late this year, but a number of delays in a variety of production categories have delayed this schedule and there will be no new Firefox until 2011.
The new Passenger Media Unit (PMU), designed by Thales, looks like a cell phone and runs on the Android operating system. The new device would essentially take the place of your SkyMiles magazine, your seat-back controls and your call button.
With the emergence of the smartphone home security technology has come a long way. Recently, a man was able to catch robbers breaking into his home miles away from his mobile phone.
There is a lot of free software available and much of it rivals the quality of software that you have to pay good money for. Here is a list, in no particular order, of some of the best software currently available for free.
Adobe Photoshop is the king of photo manipulation software, but if you don’t have the money to spring for the real deal, what are the best free or open source alternatives to Photoshop, depending on your needs?
A big concern with Google’s Chrome OS has been around its compatibility with software from other platforms. Since Chrome OS will be brand new to the market, existing legacy software will most likely not work out of the box. It appears that Google is hard at work on remedying this issue.
Heralded as a new and better way to build a start-up, and based in the decades-old Japanese concept of lean technology, the lean start-up business process has become popular in recent years as a way to build a tech company.
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