One of the biggest worries for parents in giving their young ones mobile devices is the lack of real parental controls. You can lock some phones down so that they can only contact certain numbers, but this is a far from ideal solution. Hence, Apple’s new patent for an anti-sexting system.
The official title of the [...]
According to WSJ, Walmart will get Apple’s iPad just in time for the holiday season. This Friday, Oct 15th, they will begin selling the iPad in “hundreds” of stores through the United States. Competitors like Best Buy have already been selling the iPad since it’s launch and Target began selling the Apple tablets just this [...]
The Root has pulled together another list of 100 individuals who are “impactful, creative, iconoclastic, innovative, committed to community and, in many instances, defiant of any restrictive definitions of what it means to be black in America in 2010.” While the entire list is definitely worth a look, there are a some who made it [...]
Windows Phone 7 has a number of features not currently matched on any other platform. These make it a target for customers interested in gaming and entertainment, areas where Android is somewhat lacking and iPhone is just getting started.
Netflix on Phone 7 gives you much more than simple queue management. As we found out early [...]
Windows Phone 7 is finally here. At an event this morning in New York, NY, Microsoft went into details about the Windows Phone 7 interface and features. As an Android fan to the heart, I must admit it’s pretty slick. As Ballmer puts it:
“Microsoft and its partners are delivering a different kind of mobile phone [...]
iPhone Apps Put User Privacy at Risk
Using a custom software program called Taintdroid, researchers at Duke, Penn State, and Intel Labs found Android apps sharing private user data without explicit authorization. According to research from Bucknell University, it seems that iPhone owners have the same problem. A majority of iOS apps transmit user data back [...]
A new phishing scam is on the rise and is targeting well-meaning people just trying to get right with the IRS. According to McAfee, the scam targets individuals using the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) to pay their taxes. This system has been in place since 1996 and was established by the U.S. Department of [...]
According to WSJ, Apple is still working on a CDMA version of the iPhone for the Verizon network. This isn’t a new rumor. We talked about a potential January launch for a Verizon iPhone back in June. In August, it seemed that Apple had tipped their hand by ordering millions of Qualcomm CDMA chipsets, which [...]
At Facebook’s event today in Palo Alto, we got two major announcements to the Facebook platform. The one that most are excited about is the ability to download your Facebook data. The second is a redesign of the Groups feature, which I think is powerful enough to attract some users back to Facebook.
Download Your Information
A [...]
According to Ben Metcalfe, the Libyan government is cracking down on their .ly domain space. On September 23rd, NIC.ly (the domain registry and controlling body for the Libyan domain space .ly) deleted the ‘vb.ly’ domain with no notice or warning. This domain was co-owned by Ben and his partner @violetblue. You’ve probably seen the .ly [...]
While the Droid Pro has been blogged about before, it looks like the rumors were all wrong. It was originally thought to be a world edition of the Droid 2, which simply means it would support cell networks around the world.Not a very exciting prospect for a new mobile phone, but Verizon has somehow [...]
Google has just made Google Goggles available to iPhone users. To refresh your memory, Goggles allows you to do a visual search. Normally, when you want to know more about something, you go to a search engine and type in a query. You tell the search engine what you want with your words. But what [...]
At long last, Skype is available for Android. Skype Mobile was initially introduced on the Verizon network and has remained exclusive to Verizon for some time. Now, you can download the free app from the Android market to make Skype-to-Skype calls for free and send/receive free Instant Messages. IM’s work on a one-to-one basis or [...]
In a rather shocking announcement, Twitter CEO Evan Williams has asked COO Dick Costolo to step in as the new CEO of Twitter. While we’ve seen restructuring going on at major companies like HP and Yahoo, this seems a bit more benign and mostly a strategic move on @ev’s part.
As Twitter’s growth has exploded, Evan [...]
Microsoft and, more specifically, CEO Steve Ballmer are having a seriously tough time succeeding in the mobile market. First, we witnessed the launch and later failure of the Microsoft Kin after only a couple of months. Then, in a regulatory filing last week, we find out that Steve Ballmer got docked on his bonus. Mostly [...]
