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 [...]
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How Web savvy are Romney, Gingrich and Obama?
February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments
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
Finding and cleaning out your smartphone’s Carrier IQ poison
December 1st, 2011 · Comments Off
Isn’t it wonderful? It turns out that a spyware rootkit from a company called Carrier IQ is on hundreds of millions of Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Only Windows Phone-powered smartphones seems to have avoiding this program that reports on almost everything you do with your phone. In the case of iPhones, it appears [...]
Tags: Applications · Infrastructure · Mobile · Network · Network Services · Security · SmartPhone · Tablet · Telecomm/VoIP
Google Music: Your Great Music Locker in the Cloud (Review)
November 17th, 2011 · Comments Off
I’ve been using Google Music since it was in beta. At first, it didn’t interest me that much. Yet another way to save my music to the cloud? How much good really was that? Well, after using it for several months, and now that Google Music is open for everyone in the US to use, [...]
Tags: Applications · Business · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Entertainment · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Media Extender · Mobile · Multimedia · Music · Network · SmartPhone · Tablet · Web browser · Web Services
