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FTC: Google Agrees to Comprehensive Privacy Program to Protect Customer Data
When Google Buzz came out, everyone expected that it was Google’s first salvo against Twitter—except for the fact that it lived entirely inside of Gmail. Perhaps they hoped it would become just-another-Social-Inbox-app; as opposed to the privacy horror that it grew into. Now, after over a year of having Google Buzz, thousands of complaints, and ...
Microsoft to Bring Near Field Communication to Windows Phone 7
Noticing that they’re losing ground against Google and Apple when it comes to the implementation of Near Field Communication technology, Microsoft is thinking of bringing it to the Windows Phone 7. According to an article published in Business Week, two anonymous sources have come forward with this information. The software giant plans to include the ...
Ex-CEO Mark Hurd Drama Continues, Judge Rejects Shareholder Request for Hewlett-Packard Documents
Back in November 2010, Hewlett-Packard Co. shareholder Ernesto Espinoza requested access to corporate documents with information about ex-CEO Mark Hurd’s relationship with contractor Jodie Fisher. Recently, a judge ruled that he is not entitled to those documents, according to an article in Business Week, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Donald Parsons on March 25 denied Hewlett-Packard ...
Firefox 4 for Android Picks HTML5 Over Flash
Only a week ago, Mozilla released Firefox 4—after a great deal of work on betas for both the PC and Android versions—and now we’ve been graced with the Android release. The biggest feature apparent on the Android Firefox that belongs to recent innovation happens to be that they’ve gone with HTML5 instead of Adobe Flash. ...
Kinect Benefits Surgeons in Toronto via Hands Free Image Manipulation
Medical imaging enables surgeons amazing insights into the inner workings of the body without having to cut into a person—it also permits them to be more precise when it comes time to make those cuts. As a result, imaging in the OR can be an extreme boon. The problem? Germs. Since surgeons need to be ...
Amazon Appstore and the Test Drive Feature
This past week brought us the unveiling of the Amazon app store for Android apps and as it enables people to make purchases both from their smartphones and their PCs (to deliver to their smartphones) this opens up some very interesting capabilities. One of the more interesting features that comes along with the app store ...
Google Teams Up With MasterCard and Citigroup to Extend Android NFC Penetration
Looking to push forward as an innovator and bring the digital wallet to smartphones everywhere, Google Inc. has plans to team up with MasterCard and Citigroup to complete the use of Near-Field Communication for financial transactions—the technology, already embedded in Android phones and enabled through recent OS updates, will revolutionize contact-less point-of-sale payments. And, according ...
Look Out PlayStation Move, Homebrew Hacker Hooks Kinect to PS3
In what must be a particularly funny maneuver in Sony’s eyes, a hacker has managed to make the Microsoft Kinect work with a PlayStation 3. In a video demo he’s shown that he’s managed to get the peripheral to operate on the PS3 to the point where he can log into his account, navigate the ...
NPD Group Believes Shuttering LimeWire has Caused Dip in American P2P Piracy
An NPD Group report is right now making the rounds touting an apparent decline in the illicit use of P2P networks to pirate music since the shutdown of LimeWire last October. The study cites a drop in overall P2P piracy from 16% in 2007 to 9% in 2010—among other statistics—which seems to be a strange ...
MocoSpace Announces First Recipients in HTML5 Mobile Game Developer Fund
Last month, MocoSpace—an HTML5 mobile gaming platform—announced a fund of $1 million to help accelerate the development of HTML5 games for smartphones. The fund would then become a jumpstart for a select few developers who wanted to make their way into mobile gaming space. Developers were invited to submit existing games as well as game ...
