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Google’s Cloud-based Postini Service Offering Exchange Safety Net
Google has been generating a lot of cloud-based services news lately, but this one really shows some interesting business logic on their end. Google Message Continuity will provide a service that will permit offices to continue working with Microsoft Exchange even when their servers have gone down for the count—either due to an actual hard ...
Facebook, Twitter Kill Accounts Belonging to pro-WikiLeaks Hackers
In the wake of the WikiLeaks release of U.S. diplomatic cables a lot of political fallout has been occurring, and no less in the world of cyberspace. Amid the first to cast out WikiLeaks was the Internet retail giant Amazon.com, who leased them cloud-storage space, then financial institutions such as Visa and Paypal discontinued their ...
Snapstick Brings the Web Video to Your TV with a Flick of the Wrist
The mysterious Snapstick is coming to bring web video from your laptop, iPhone, or other web-enabled device to your television set. I say mysterious, because this startup intends to produce a product that will compete with Apple TV and Google TV and it hasn’t taken a distinct form yet. It’s not a set-top box and ...
Google, Microsoft Executives Scathe Over Mobile Code
Andy Rubin and Joe Belfiore—Google’s Android chief and Microsoft’s VP for the Windows Phone Program respectively—verbally sparred over the state of mobile software at the All Things Digital: Dive Into Mobile Conference. However, after reading the quote-by-blow report from Wall Street Journal it seems that they’re actually talking about slightly different things. While Mr. Rubin ...
Tweets About Places About to Become Searchable
Some months ago, Twitter enabled the ability to pin a place to tweets—in this case the location the user happened to be at—but there were rumors circulating about a capability called “Points of Interest”. Now they’re rolling out an API enhancement that will permit people to search those place tags to reveal tweets sent about ...
IE9 Introducing “Tracking Protection” to Enhance Browser Privacy
In semi-recent news the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has been pondering a “Do Not Track” registry for the web and Microsoft has responded by attempting to shore up the blocking provisions in Internet Explorer 9. Although dubbed similar to a “Do Not Call” list, the new privacy protection in fact works a great deal more ...
Google Android Chief Unveils New Android Tablet
Amid the roar of the crowd and the unveiling of Gingerbread, Google appears to have taken a multipronged approach to the market and they’re revealing an Android tablet. The prototype tablet, made my Motorola Inc., would add itself to the already varied (but not well marketed) line up. Details are extremely sketchy, but according to ...
Apple’s Patent May Bring 3D-TV into the Living Room
Science fiction has brought us visions of holographic visualization right in our living room but the current technologies to deliver this sort of experience have been somewhat unappetizing. Either they require an annoying set of glasses or produce a surface effect with an extremely narrow viewing range. Both of these make current 3D technology onerous ...
Google Maps on Android Brings Us 3D and Offline Access
Google Maps combined with GPS happens to be a powerful flagship product that weds both an excellent direction and mapping service on the Internet with location finding on mobile phones. And it’s about to get better for Android users. Google is working to upgrade their mapping offering for mobile phones with much cleaner data structures, ...
Loopt Updates Location Sharing with Application Re-design
The last time we heard about Loopt, they just launched an update that enabled a massive integration with Facebook—and then they fell off the radar with Facebook Places and Foursquare dominating the social location scene. Not to get left behind, Loopt quickly sprang forward to re-design their application and make location and check-in the center ...