Facebook’s new app is Android only, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company says it wants the software on “every” device. [Read more]
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Don’t rule out Facebook Home for Apple’s iOS
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on April 4, 2013
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IDC: connected device shipments up 29.1 percent in 2012, smartphones and tablets rule
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on February 22, 2013
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Researchers at IDC have had their ears to the ground keeping tabs on shipments for specific types of devices, and now they’ve painted a bigger picture of the hardware battlefield in 2012. “Smart connected devices” — a category which includes desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones — saw a total of 367.7 million units shipped in Q4 2012, up 28.3 percent from the year before. In total, over 1.2 billion units were shipped last year, marking a 29.1 percent upswing from 2011. Naturally, tablets and smartphones drove the boost by carving out roughly 60 percent of the year’s combined marketshare, while PCs and notebook shipments sank by 4.1 and 3.4 percent, respectively.
While Samsung and Apple each claimed crowns in specific gadget divisions, Sammy came out on top with smart connected devices in 2012 as a whole (and in Q4) thanks to a 20.8 percent marketshare, beating Cupertino by 2.6 percent. Lenovo finished in third place with a 6.5 percent slice, while HP and Dell trailed behind with 4.8 and 3.2 percent, respectively. IDC notes that Cook. and Co. could have come in a more distant second, but the debut of the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini pulled it out of a slump from earlier in the year.
Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops, Tablets, Mobile, Apple, Samsung
Source: IDC
Google’s password proposal: One ring to rule them all
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on January 19, 2013
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In a forthcoming paper, Google engineers float the idea of supplementing passwords with hardware you wear. Or carry. Or slip onto a finger. [Read more]
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Google sees one password ring to rule them all
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on January 19, 2013
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Google thinks it might have found an answer to the vexing problem of forgotten or weak passwords: "physical" passwords, which might come in the form of a piece of jewelry such as a ring.
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Microsoft exec doesn’t rule out Intel-based Windows Phones
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on January 10, 2013
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After Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance during a Qualcomm keynote at International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), some analysts wondered how married the company is to Snapdragon chips and the ARM-based ecosystem.
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Spotify kills new download purchases, won’t rule out comeback
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on January 4, 2013
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The company’s downloading embargo appears to be affecting users in the U.K. today, but other countries are also affected. [Read more]
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European Data Retention Rule Could Violate Fundamental EU Law
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on December 20, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes in with a story about the Constitutional Court of Austria objecting to the EU’s data retention law. “The European Union’s data retention law could breach fundamental E.U. law because its requirements result in an invasion of citizens’ privacy, according to the Constitutional Court of Austria, which has asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to determine the directive’s validity. The primary problem with the data retention law is that it almost exclusively affects people in whom government or law enforcement have no prior interest. But authorities use the data for investigations and are informed about people’s personal lives, the court said, and there is a risk that the data can be abused. ‘We doubt that the E.U. Data Retention Directive is really compatible with the rights that are guaranteed by the E.U. Charter of Fundamental Rights,’ Gerhart Holzinger, president of the Constitutional Court of Austria said in a statement.”
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Obama’s Data Techniques Will Rule Future Elections
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on December 18, 2012
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IDC: Samsung and Apple rule connected device share, those who snooze in mobile lose
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on December 11, 2012
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Most market share studies are broken down by individual categories that don’t tell the whole story of their successes and failures. IDC has stepped forward with a more holistic look that covers PCs, phones and tablets all at once — and paints a very different picture. Samsung and Apple lead the pack in the third quarter of this year with an estimated 21.8 and 15.1 percent share each, based mostly on their mobile dominance. Lenovo’s equal balance between its rapidly growing PC and phone businesses put it at 7 percent. It’s those who haven’t done well outside of PCs that have struggled: IDC is quick to point out that HP’s exit from mobile left it at 4.6 percent and sinking fast, while it’s commonly known that Sony has yet to enjoy a truly blockbuster hit with its Android-based smartphones or tablets. The situation is changing quickly, but the data shows that companies can’t lean solely on traditional computers to thrive in the broader technology landscape.
Filed under: Cellphones, Laptops, Tablets, Apple, Samsung, Sony, HP, Lenovo
Source: IDC
Apple sacks two-per-customer rule for iPhone 5
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on December 5, 2012
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As supply chain issues come under control and unlocked models of the device are available, the tech giant lets customers buy more than just two iPhone 5 smartphones at a time. [Read more]
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Brewster: The Smart Contacts App That Wants To Rule Them All, Now Conquering Europe, Too
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on October 20, 2012
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Brewster, the relationship-centric iOS address book app that went live in the U.S. in July with some fanfare (and a little controversy for good measure), is picking up some more steam. On the heels of an app update earlier this month, this week it is launching across Europe, available for the first time in iOS App Stores across the region.
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Moore’s Law: The rule that really matters in tech
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on October 15, 2012
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In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore foresaw an inexorable rise in chip power that eventually delivered the computer to your pocket. While long in the tooth, Moore’s prediction still has plenty of life in it. Here’s why. [Read more]
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EFF To Ask Judge To Rule That Universal Abused the DMCA
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on October 12, 2012
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xSander writes “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal judge in San Jose, CA to rule that Universal abused the DMCA to take down a video of a toddler dancing to a Prince song. The case in question, whose oral argument will be Tuesday, October 16, is Stephanie Lenz vs. Universal, a case that began back in 2007. Lenz shared a video on YouTube of her son dancing to ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ on a stereo in the background. After Universal took the video down, Lenz filed a suit with help of the EFF to hold Universal accountable for taking down her fair use. The court had already decided that content owners must consider fair use before sending copyright takedown notices.”
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Everything is an accessory as smartphones rule
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on October 5, 2012
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In the race to create slicker products, mobile phones are the new brains for hire.
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One Radio to Rule Them All
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on June 13, 2012
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A new cognitive radio demonstrates innovations that enable smarter use of wireless spectrum.
With a rising tide of smart-phone data threatening to drown the airwaves, a White House advisory panel is poised to suggest that wireless carriers and research labs ramp up efforts to use computing to far more efficiently tap spectrum.
Do intelligent dinosaurs really rule alien worlds?
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on April 13, 2012
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The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents
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on April 5, 2012
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Fluffeh writes “Can a farmer commit patent infringement just by planting soybeans he bought on the open market? This week, the Supreme Court asked the Obama administration to weigh in on the question. The Court is pondering an appeals court decision saying that such planting can, in fact, infringe patents. Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled, as it had on several previous occasions, that patent exhaustion did not cover second-generation seeds. The Supreme Court has now asked the Solicitor General, the official in charge of representing the Obama administration before the Court, to weigh in on the case.”
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Blog – One eBook Platform to Rule Them All
Posted by Gsurface
on January 23, 2012
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DOJ Drops FOIA Rule To Permit Lying
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on November 4, 2011
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schwit1 writes “The Department of Justice has canceled a controversial revision to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) rules that opponents said would have allowed federal agencies to lie about the existence of records. In a letter to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley on Thursday, the DOJ wrote that the proposed rule ‘falls short’ of its commitment to transparency, and it ‘will not include that provision when the Department issues final regulations.’ The concern now is that the DOJ has been lying for some time and this rule was an attempt to provide cover for past denials concerning the existence of documents.”
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myPlex makes streaming your media simple, gives you one queue to rule them all
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on October 30, 2011
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Plex is one of the more popular solutions to the problem of how to get all that (legally downloaded, of course) media sitting on your home PC to your various devices for consumption. But, like many of its competitors, getting the whole shebang set up isn’t always the easiest task. The company’s new myPlex platform aims to solve this conundrum, and adds a few welcome features along the way. Now, setting up a server or a client is as simple as logging in to your Plex account — no matter how many of either part of the media-streaming equation you may have. As an added bonus, your account is also now home to a queue that is shared across all devices. Stopped watching a movie half way through on your commute home? You can pick up right where you left off on your Roku. You can even add web clips from sources like YouTube to the list. Check out the source link for a few more details.
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NH Supreme Court To Rule On Bigfoot Video Shoot In Public Park
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on October 23, 2011
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alphadogg writes with this excerpt from the Boston Globe: “On a whim two years ago, performance artist Jonathan Doyle paraded around the bustling peak of New Hampshire’s Mount Monadnock in a $ 40 Bigfoot costume from iParty. He thought his deadpan video interviews with hikers describing their Bigfoot sightings would be worth a few chuckles on YouTube, and might boost the profile of his other artwork. But the staff at Monadnock State Park found the Yeti act abominable. When Doyle returned with friends to shoot a sequel, the park manger quashed the production and ordered Doyle off the mountain, insisting he needed a state permit to film a movie in the park. Bigfoot stepped up with a lawsuit, alleging that the park’s permit regulations are unconstitutional. The New Hampshire Supreme Court next month will hear Doyle’s complaint. Though many elements of the dispute border on the absurd, the case raises some serious free speech issues.”
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IT 2012 Predictions: For One, Social Networks Rule
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on October 22, 2011
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The evolution of social-networking capabilities in corporate systems, and technologies that dramatically boost productivity and reduce risk, are themes that dominate the "Top Ten Predictions 2012" from one IT research firm.
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U.S. judge to rule on Samsung tablet sales
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on October 14, 2011
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Attorneys for Apple and Samsung Electronics gave arguments before a U.S. federal judge on Thursday in a patent infringement suit over Samsung's Galaxy tablets, and the judge is now set to issue a written order on Apple's request to have sales of those tablets blocked.
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One App To Rule Them All, Facebook Unifies Mobile Experience With Focus On Developers
Posted by Gsurface
on October 11, 2011
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Well if it isn’t my old friend the new Facebook app developer page … Yes that mysteriously up-to-date Facebook Mobile Developer page from a couple of weeks ago has finally gone officially live with its explanation of how the synchronized Facebook mobile platform will work across its iPhone, iPad, web apps and eventually Android apps (sometimes these things are so anticlimactic). And, unlike the simplistic three-step tutorial (below) I was given when downloaded the new Facebook iPhone app, this developer fact sheet has a bit more information about the motivation behind the changes.
“The Jimmy Buffet Rule”- “If you ask the bottom 98 to sacrifice, that’s a prudent fiscal policy. If you ask the top 2 percent to sacrifice, that’s class warfare.”
Posted by Gsurface
on September 20, 2011
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