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eBay Gets More Local with WHERE
Online auction company eBay has just announced its deal to acquire location-based service WHERE. Details on the deal are currently under wraps, but it will certainly fill out their portfolio. The deal is expected to close later this quarter. “As a first step, we plan to integrate PayPal into the WHERE mobile app to make ...
Researchers Catch iOS 4 Secretly Recording Everywhere You Go (Again)
Our smartphones know a lot more about what’s going on and what we’re doing than we’re entirely aware. In fact, the more services that we enable the higher the chances that the information gathered could fall into the wrong hands. As users of a multitude of social networking services we already spin off huge emissions ...
Google Seeks Crowdsourcing of “Citizen Cartographers” for U.S. Maps
Is there any place in the world that you know better than your own neighborhood or haunt? How would you like to aid Google in making their knowledge of the area smarter? That’s what’s happening right now as Google is inviting its own users to help them curate their vast maps of United States neighborhoods ...
Latest Developments in Kinect Human Technology Interface: Triage Simulation, “Self-Portrait” Statues, and Painting with Light
Latest Developments in Kinect Human Technology Interface: Triage Simulation, “Self-Portrait” Statues, Painting with Light, and Triage Simulation The Microsoft Kinect has become something of a cult thriller amid a multitude of tech savvy communities. It’s become the center of attention for human computer interfaces from training people in American Sign Language to playing video games. ...
Verizon Bundles to Lower High Speed Internet Pricing with Reduced Contract Concerns
In a move that puts their high speed Internet offerings alongside cable networks using the concept of bundles to combine multiple services into one with reduced costs for all. In a press release on PRNewswire, Verizon pretty much markets their new idea to provide both Internet and voice together over their copper for less—but the ...
HP’s webOS 3.0 Aids Leap into the Personal Cloud with Music, Movies
The new Hewlett-Packard TouchPad—and thus it’s webOS 3.0 on that device—will reportedly include apps to connect it to a service that will deliver movies and music to customers. According to the website, PreCentral, HP has released a PowerPoint presentation to subscribers of e-mail notices about the HP Touchpad that includes some interesting revelations on what ...
Reported Vulnerability in Skype for Android Exposes Personal Information
A vulnerability in Skype’s app for Android has been discovered that exposes names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, contacts, and chat logs. Justin Case over at Android Police published the exploit after downloading a leaked version of Skype Video. He discovered an easy exploit for information stored in the app and then applied the methodology to ...
Microsoft Gives Augmented Reality a Booster Shot with Windows Phone OS and Kinect Updates
Executives from Microsoft Corp. at MIX11, the 2011 Microsoft developers conference in Las Vegas, took their keynote and multiple panels to speak about augmented reality developments in their devices. Specifically, I’m interested in covering innovations built into the upcoming next-gen Windows Phone OS and the PC SDK for the Microsoft Kinect peripheral. Not really or ...
Facebook Finds Safety in Kerry-McCain Privacy Bill; Do-Not-Track Doesn’t Make Cut
Seeking to “establish a framework to protect the personal information of All Americans” Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and John McCain (R-AZ) have proposed privacy legislation that will affect corporate America. The bill will include opt-outs for all information and an opt-in for some sensitive information, requirements on data minimization, increased authority for the federal government, ...
Microsoft Sneaks Internet Explorer 10 Preview onto the Web Even Before IE9 Cools
Barely a month after striking the mint on Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has prepared a demo of their next-generation browser IE10—and they’re inviting you to download and try it out. “Explore a more beautiful web,” says the teaser banner atop the site, beckoning visitors to the download button. The new browser from Microsoft appears to ...