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Is Apple Getting Ready to Boot "Cookie-Cutter" Apps out of the App Store?
Is Apple prepping a heavy hand to combat lookalike applications on its App Store? That's the rumor being put forth by sharp-eyed readers who took note of a rather interesting blog post by Mobile Roadie founder Michael Schneider. Mobile Roadie is a service based on one simple tagline, “The simple and inexpensive way for anyone to ...
China Will Punish Hackers if Complaint Filed
China has pledged to punish hackers who attacked Google if there is evidence to prove it, but said it has yet to receive any complaint from the world's top search engine. Google sent shockwaves across business and political circles in January when it declared it would stop censoring Chinese search results, and threatened to pull out ...
New Google Chrome Beta Instantly Translates Web Pages
Google on Tuesday introduced new language translation and privacy tools for its Chrome browser. Chrome now includes a beta feature that will instantly translate Web pages that are in a language different from your preferred language setting. “Chrome will display a prompt asking if you'd like the page to be translated for you using Google Translate," ...
Skype Gives Up on Windows Mobile App
Making free Skype calls on a cell phone without using up minutes is certainly appealing. But the reality hasn't always lived up to the promise. Nowhere has this been more true than with the Windows Mobile version of Skype--which we found in two separate reviews to be, shall we say, less than desirable. It turns out ...
Facebook Awarded Patent for Its News Feed
Facebook has secured a patent to a feature that many of its competitors have adopted in recent years the news feed. The patent, officially granted on Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, governs a “method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment." Facebook applied for the patent back in August 2006, ...
Google Begins Indexing Facebook Pages
It took a while, but Google is now indexing Pages from Facebook, Google said today via a tweet on its official account. Unlike individual profiles, Facebook Pages were designed for organizations, businesses, celebrities, and bands to provide updates. Now, those will be part of Google's real-time search results, which were first announced in December at its ...
In Defense of Adobe Flash
Flash is going through a pretty tough time right now. Apple's Steve Jobs, reportedly, hates it. Consumers seem to think it's bloated and unsafeat least that's the commonly held wisdom. For me, though, Flash is one of the Web's more sublime technologies, one I've known and used for more than 15 years. It was 1994 or ...
U.S. Broadband Plan Now Due on March 17
U.S. communications regulators will unveil on March 17 a blueprint aimed at bringing fast affordable Internet access to more than 90 million Americans being held back by fees and technology. The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that the long-awaited National Broadband Plan will try to help connect 93 million Americans to high-speed Internet to find ...
Future of the Phone Lies Beyond the Processor
As I left the Mobile World Congress, I couldn't help but think about where mobile devices are going in the future. Today's devices are pretty amazing themselves, but the phones we're likely to see over the next couple of years should take things to a whole new level. The phone of the future will be a ...
Adobe Photoshop Celebrates 20 Years
Hard as it may be to believe today, once upon a time you had to take your pictures carefully and develop them with even greater care; a lost memory then was truly lost. But all that started to change 20 years ago on Friday, when the first version of Photoshop was released, and began to usher ...
