Technology News

Effort to Widen U.S. Internet Access Sets up Battle

Source: Michael Ricci
March 13, 2010

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nations media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the countrys dominant communication network.

The plan, which will be submitted to Congress on Tuesday, is likely to generate debate in Washington and a lobbying battle among the telecommunication giants, which over time may face new competition for customers. Already, the broadcast television industry is resisting a proposal to give back spectrum the government wants to ...

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A Battle for the Future is Getting Personal

Source: Michael Ricci
March 13, 2010

Three years ago, Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, jogged onto a San Francisco stage to shake hands with Steven P. Jobs, Apple's co-founder, to help him unveil a transformational wonder gadget -- the iPhone -- before throngs of journalists and adoring fans at the annual MacWorld Expo. Google and Apple had worked together to bring Google's search and mapping services to the iPhone, the executives told the audience, and Mr. Schmidt joked that the collaboration was so ...

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Apple's iPad Would Read Out Loud...I SAID.. ..Oh never Mind

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2010

When it began taking pre-orders for the iPad this morning, Apple also published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader. It turns out the iPad will read books out loud to you with audio dictation, a controversial feature that caused some trouble for Amazon's Kindle last year. Also, Apple indicated that you'll be able to use the iPad to read EPUB titles from sources outside of the iBooks store. The new features are ...

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Orders for Apples New iPad Start Today

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2010

It's iPad Day in America -- at least Apple hopes it is. The company began taking orders online Friday for its new tablet computer, with delivery scheduled for April 3, the same day the iPad goes on sale in stores in the United States.

The company said on its site that buyers who order the iPad online can have it delivered “free to your door on April 3." Those who order the iPad to be shipped should check whether they ...

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Apple Pushes for Quality in Apps

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2010

Apple's recent purge of sex-tinged iPhone apps and its lesser- known ban of “cookie- cutter" apps signifies the company's new focus on quality in its App Store, rather than quantity. Last month, Apple removed about 5,000 apps with “overtly sexual content" from its App Store. And this week Apple told Mobile Roadie, a company that provides templates for clients to build iPhone apps, that the App Store would no longer accept “cookie-cutter" apps -- apps made with app-generating services that ...

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Barbican Launches "JazzEast" Website jazzeast.org

Source: Michael Ricci
March 12, 2010

The Barbican has announced the launch of a comprehensive new tool for jazz musicians, students, educators, journalists - and fans. The JazzEast website is a unique resource that offers a user-friendly and informative guide to the burgeoning jazz scene in the eastern half of the capital. The website, commissioned by Barbican Contemporary Music, gives 'one-click' information on venues, arts organisations, live events and big bands in the ten East London boroughs. Users can select which particular aspect of the scene ...

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Twitter Wants to Know Where You Are

Source: PC Magazine
March 12, 2010

Facebook may not be quite ready to commit to location-based services (at least not until April), but Twitter is making no bones about jumping onto the super-hot trend. The site today added another question to its long-standing “What's Happening" prompt: “Where Are You?" Twitter today rolled out the feature for number of users. Logging onto the service brings up a dialog box reading “Tweet your location." Once enabled, the site will attempt discover your location using Google Gears. Then a ...

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Superglued: The Can't-Miss Live Music iPhone App

Source: Michael Ricci
March 11, 2010

If you've ever done SXSW before, then you know about the music here in Austin. If you haven't, let us tell you now - there's a lot. But how do you find it all? And how do you find out which show is best? And how do you share blogs, photos, videos and tweet about it all at once? SuperGlued, which has integrated with both Foursquare and Twitter, will be your your one-stop shop for the more than 1,200 bands ...

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