No WiFi Zones: Oasis in the connected city?
When your city has an abundance of free WiFi signals it can help tourists navigate different parts of the city and connect residents with local businesses that might have not come across otherwise. Both are good for the local economy. But free WiFi seems to be all around us. In…
Apple’s CEO comments on rumors of a forthcoming HDTV.
During today’s Q1 quarterly earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook commented on the company’s efforts in the TV space, including sales of its Apple TV set-top box and rumors of a forthcoming HDTV. Cook said the company has seen significant growth in sales of its “hobby project,” the Apple TV….
And when we say urgent, we mean…
This public library provides a particular model of netbooks for patrons to use while they’re in a library branch, says a pilot fish on the support end. “Occasionally, the wireless network card driver crashes and Windows displays a blue screen with the filename of the driver that crashed,” fish says….
Court: Sex offender Facebook ban unconstitutional
Facebook has updated its privacy settings to make it easier for users to control what is shown on their pages.(Photo: Joerg Koch, AP)Story HighlightsInd. law banned registered sex offenders from accessing social networking sites accessible by kids7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals said “blanket ban” was too broad and didn’t protect…
Ex-Foursquare Engineer On Why Employees Are Leaving
A hot topic on question-and-answer site Quora recently: Why are so many employees leaving Foursquare, the New York-based check-in startup? Justin Moore, a former director of engineering at Foursquare who joined Facebook a year ago, offered his own take. Moore didn’t buy the premise that a lot of people were…
Apple Smartphone US Share Over 50% According to Kantar
Kantar’s Worldpanel ComTech survey released its latest smartphone market share data, which shows Apple’s smartphone market share at 51.2% with Android at 44.2% for the twelve week timeframe ending on December 23. Windows phones moved up to third place with 3.6% share while RIM slipped substantially from 7.5% to 1.6% Kantar Worldpanel ComTech analyst Mary-Ann Parlato…
Facebook admits it is powerless to stop young users setting up profiles
Facebook: has a rule that under-13s are not allowed to have profiles. Photograph: Paula Solloway / Alamy/Alamy Facebook has admitted that there is almost nothing it can do to stop young users setting up profiles and potentially being exposed to explicit content, online bullying and grooming. The world’s biggest…
If it wants to be a media company, Twitter should get better at distilling …
We’ve been arguing for some time that Twitter is becoming a media entity in its own right, and some of the company’s moves around the Summer Olympics and other events have helped flesh out that theory. John Battelle of Federated Media argues much the same thing in a new blog…
Australian parliament trials Windows 8 tablets
The Australian Department of Parliamentary Services has begun a trial of Windows 8 tablets with MPs and parliamentary staff, following a successful trial of iPads between 2010 and 2011. Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) CIO Eija Seittenranta told ZDNet in an interview that there was a small pilot of the tablets currently underway…
UC Browser now allows iOS users to download and store files in the cloud
Mobile internet company, UC Web, has enabled cloud downloads in the latest update of the iPhone version of its web browser, UC Browser. This essentially means that users can opt to download files on UC Web’s server and retrieve them at a later point in time. This function is particularly…
