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Apple Ejected Sony E-Reader App Because They Want a Cut of Sales
Now that Apple has responded in relation to nixing the Sony E-Reader app on iOS devices things have gotten a little bit weirder from the initial coverage. This particular row started on Tuesday morning when The New York Times published a story about how Apple had rejected Sony’s app while leaving other e-readers alone—such as ...
Apple Tightens In-App Purchase Policy, Shoulders Out Sony E-Reader
Reports of what Apple just did with their policy tightening and how that affected Sony’s e-book Reader seem extremely sketchy right now, but the gist of it is that Apple has tightened its rules on in-app purchases. Sony has appeared to say that Apple has rejected their e-book app for the iPhone—the Android version, however, ...
Real-time Translator Device: How We Could Do It
Francis Tan over at The Next Web has picked up on a concept device from Samsung called “The Real Translator.” It supposedly works by holding up the device equipped with a transparent AMOLED while facing the person you are talking to. The device will then interpret whatever is spoken in real time and give a ...
Holographic Airport Staff Introduced at London Luton Airport
Well, not holograms per se, but it’s the buzzword being bandied about by every media outlet discussing the innovation so it’s in the title here. The actual technology rolled out at London Luton Airport is a sort of back-projection onto a translucent surface, providing a free-standing appearance of a 3D image. In this case, a ...
Microsoft Brings the Cloud Out of the Internet and Into the Home
It’s the stuff of science fiction, but personalizing our environments and living spaces using our technology is the mast that we hoist our civilization on. The cloud has been big on virtualization and separating our data from our home computers, divorcing it from big hardware and allowing any computer terminal to become a window into ...
Nokia Takes Yet Another Blow, Android Outshines Symbian in Q4
Right now, Symbian OS is staring down the barrel of a loaded Android smartphone. It looks like the record in total mobile sales that Nokia’s Symbian once held has been overwhelmed by Android sales. The last quarter of 2010, Android shipped just 6% more handsets, beating the record by a nose. According to some research, ...
Stanford Researchers Bring NFC into Reach of Social Apps
When Google first introduce Near-Field Communication (NFC) it has been lauded as a platform for financial transactions and advertisement; but these two business-practical applications only represent a sliver of how the technology could be used. Researchers at Stanford’s MobiSocial lab have brainstormed other ideas of what they could do with the technology and now there’s ...
MPAA Bulldog, BREIN, Brags About Shuttering "a Dozen" US Torrent Sites
I came to this news expecting there was something of a witch-hunt going down over torrent sites. Instead, I discovered a serious amount of blowhard bragging in press release form by BRIEN, a Dutch anti-piracy outfit who work with the MPAA out of the Netherlands. Right now, they’re bragging that they’ve gotten 12 torrent sites, ...
Preview SDK Tools for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, a Focus on User Interface and Design
Now that we’ve been waiting for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) for quite a while every little thing is magic, especially when it comes to preparing for the eventual release. Thus, when we heard about the release of a preview SDK for the system, we figured we’d introduce it to everyone. Developers will especially be curious about ...
BlackBerry PlayBook Looking More like an Android Capable Platform Every Day
This particular rumor has been in the wind for quite a while now: that RIM might open up its upcoming tablets and smartphones using the QNX OS architecture to allow Android apps to run on their platforms. In fact, one of our contributors, Anton Wahlman opined about this exact same watershed event taking place last ...