When I first read that homeless people were being used as mobile Wi-Fi hotspots at Austin Texas’ South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) festival, I didn’t believe it. Believe it. BBH Labs, a self-proclaimed skunkworks innovation branch of the marketing firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty brought Homeless Hotspots, to SXSW they claim, as a “charitable experiment.”It works [...]
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Homeless and wireless at SXSW
March 13th, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: Internet · Mobile · Network
Google Chrome Web browser finally comes to Android
February 7th, 2012 · Comments Off
I love the Chrome Web browser. I like the Android operating system. Both belong to Google. So like peanut-butter and chocolate these two good things should be great right? Well, we’re finally getting a chance to find out. At long last, Google has released the beta of the Chrome Web browser for Android. One of [...]
Tags: Business · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Linux · Mobile · Network · Operating System · SmartPhone · Tablet · Web browser
How Web savvy are Romney, Gingrich and Obama?
February 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off
President Barack Obama recently held a Google+ video Hangout; Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich promised to have a permanent U.S. moon-base by 2020; and fellow Republican Mitt Romney, along with Gingrich and Obama, are against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA). So, as politicians go, these guys are all pretty tech-savvy [...]
Tags: Desktop · Infrastructure · Internet · Mobile · Network · SmartPhone · Tablet · Web browser · Web Services
HP open-sources WebOS, but will anyone develop for it?
December 9th, 2011 · Comments Off
You know those HP TouchPads that are sale right now, the ones that didn’t look that interesting after Amazon and Barnes & Noble released their Android-powered tablets? Well, you may want to get one anyway. WebOS, its operating system, isn’t dead after all. Today, HP announced that webOS would live on as an open-source project. [...]
Tags: Business · Development · HP · Infrastructure · Linux · Mobile · Network · Open Source · Operating System · Tablet
Android’s Revenge on Apple’s iPhone & iPad
December 9th, 2011 · Comments Off
I wonder if Apple is beginning to regret its world-wide war on Android and Samsung? After all, Apple’s just been hit in the chops by a German court injunction that blocks the sale of all iPhones and iPads in the European Union. In yet another chapter in the mobile patent wars, this time around Android-power [...]
Tags: Apple · Business · Google · Legal · Mobile · Motorola · Network · Network Services · SmartPhone · Tablet
