Technology News

First iPhone 4 Reviews Mostly Sing Its Praises

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2010

Just when you thought a few lucky customers beat the rest of the world to getting an iPhone 4, some technology journalists with early access to the device just published their reviews.

Apple typically handpicks a select group of publications to get early review units, and the first round of reviews comes from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Engadget and others. The reviewers agreed that the iPhone 4s hardware is state-of-the-art industrial design. However, they debated about ...

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Muziic: Over 250 Million Songs Streamed

Source: We All Make Music
June 22, 2010

Muziic, that amazing piggybacker/exploiter of YouTube, recently announced that it has streamed over 250 million videos to its users.

Developed by an Iowan teenager named David Nelson, Muziic is a desktop application (and, as of this March, an iPhone and also a Facebook app) that scours YouTube for song streams which people can basically use like MP3s: users enter song titles or artist names into a search engine, and the results of those searches can be compiled into playlists, cached, ...

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Mixlr: Share Live Music on the Web

Source: HypeBot
June 22, 2010

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Broadcasting DJs and live acts onlinecan besurprisingly hard.Mixlr providesa simple way for musicians to share live music on the web. That means that means no more messing around with IP addresses and ports, or trying to make a video streaming service do something it's not meant to. With the service artists can broadcast live audio, publish live sets to the web,upload prerecorded recordings, and getdirect feedback from their listeners.

The site integrates tightly with Facebook ...

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The Future of Location Data

Source: Michael Ricci
June 22, 2010

Data about the geographic locations of people and things will in the near-term future become a massive flow of sensor, satellite and citizen input made freely available to developers through government and other collaboration programs.

It will be available in real time, to and from mobile devices, and be machine processed to pick out objects and patterns that can be used as hooks for mashups.

That's the vision of geospatial specialist Matt Ball, articulated in a high-value blog post today ...

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First RIAA File Sharing Trial Morphs into Groundhog Day

Source: All About Jazz
June 22, 2010

In a bid two avoid a third trial after two mistrials the Minnesota federal judge presiding over the 4-year-old Jammie Thomas-Rasset case wants the Recording Industry Association of American and the defendant to negotiate a settlement.

But, as Thomas-Rasset's attorney, Joe Sibley, said in a telephone interview Monday, a settlement is not likely to happen. The reason is both sides are a universe apart on what it would take to avoid a third trial. That's why there were two trials: ...

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You've Got Web-Based Gmail

Source: Michael Ricci
June 22, 2010

In the world of mobile devices and slate computers, the difference between a downloadable application and Web application is increasingly blurring.

In many cases the two can look strikingly similar, using homogeneous design and interaction techniques. Sometimes the Web version of applications can also outdo a downloadable equivalent. Google hopes to push that boundary even further with the latest update to its in-browser GMail for the iPad. The previous version of GMail for the iPad already moved beyond the landscape ...

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Targeted Ads Will Let You Spy on Them for a Change

Source: All About Jazz
June 22, 2010

If an advertiser knows you like the artist Jasper Johns, it could use targeted advertising to tempt you with prints of his 'Target' painting; a new standardized mechanism will let you opt-out of such targeted ads later this summer.

Advertisers have grown much more sophisticated since the early days of the web and can now target us with increasing precision using a wider range of behavioral data than ever before. In spite of that or perhaps because of it the ...

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Apple Collecting Sharing iPhone Users' Precise Locations

Source: Michael Ricci
June 22, 2010

Big Apple is Watching. In an updated version of its privacy policy, the company added a paragraph noting that once users agree, Apple and unspecified “partners and licensees" may collect and store user location data.

When users attempt to download apps or media from the iTunes store, they are prompted to agree to the new terms and conditions. Until they agree, they cannot download anything through the store. The company says the data is anonymous and does not personally identify ...

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