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Educating Elite Hackers
Rush is on to train,recruit elite hackers. By one estimate the United States currently has about 1,000 elite cyber-security experts. It needs 20,000 to recruit, train, and deploy a new generation of cyber-security experts to protect and defend our digital borders. It started with Michael Coppola taking things apart at the age of five: the remote ...
Five Must-Have iPhone Photo Editing Apps
Taking photos is easy. Taking unique photos, however, requires a good eye, a decent camera, and often some editing skills and patience. Luckily, for many of us who possess none of the above, there exists the iPhone. There were many photo editing applications I was able to find, but here are a few that have now ...
New Rules Sought on TV Retransmission
Trying to prevent the kind of brinkmanship that had ABC removing its affiliate station from millions of New York area homes hours before the Oscar broadcast, a group of television providers asked the government Tuesday to revamp the rules governing the retransmission of stations. In a petition to the Federal Communications Commission and in a letter ...
Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
At long last, Google Maps has routes specifically for bikes. With the click of a mouse, the new feature allows you to plot the best (and flattest!) ride from Point A to Point B. Several cities, including New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, have bike-specific mapping sites. But Google is rolling it out in ...
Mobile Apps That Outperform Web Sites
Since the great app rush began, Web companies have scurried to build mobile apps. In some cases, they have realized that their services are better suited to cellphone screens than computers. Zillows iPhone app has been downloaded by more than one million people.Take Zillow.com, the real estate Web site where people can hunt for prices and ...
Rovi's AMG + Muze = Music Mega Meta Data
Rovi Corporation (the corporation formerly know as Macrovision) has added a new music data offering that combines music metadata from its AMG and Muze services, creating a superset of data from both acquisitions.The combined database includes more than 1.8 million pop and classical music albums and 16 million tracks, The new database, Rovi Music, ...
40% Can't Name a Single Online Music Service
From 7 Digital to Spotify, there are 20 major music servicesin the UK. But a new survey says that 40% of consumers have never heard of any of them. Of the 60% who are familiar with digital music, 85% have only heard of two - iTunes and Amazon. “The music industry is shooting itself ...
Notes from the Net: More Miles Davis Biopic News; Jamie Cullum's Pursuit; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* Via Miles Davis Online, there's a bit more news this week about actor Don ...
Your Computer Really is a Part of You
An empirical test of ideas proposed by Martin Heidegger shows the great German philosopher to be correct: Everyday tools really do become part of ourselves. The findings come from a deceptively simple study of people using a computer mouse rigged to malfunction. The resulting disruption in attention wasn't superficial. It seemingly extended to the very roots ...
Apple's Secret Plan to Control the Universe
The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe. Much has been written anecdotally about the Apple app-approval process, with the words “arcane" and “Kafkaesque" coming up a lot. But the letter (and crimping spirit) of the agreement was a ...
