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iPhone Apps and Ideas: Getting ‘Stached for Movember
Once again Movember is here. You know, the month formerly known as November, when people grow their moustaches for the whole month. Movember is a portmanteau of moustache love and the pending onset of winter. It is a month-long event which started in 1999 when a group of young men from Adelaide, South Australia, decided ...
Twitter Tool Rival Instagram, Facebook Starts Privacy Tours
Would you use a photo filtering app from Twitter? Would you be happy to have a privacy tour from Facebook? Or would you be delighted to see sepia-toned disaster photos? These are just some of the things happening in the social media sphere right now. Let’s take a quick tour of the space to find ...
Database Scaling Explained As Easy As Baking a Cake
In reading tech blogs or talking to people with in depth knowledge of the IT world, you’d often hear phrases such as “scalability is the key to…” or “scaling is important…” or “…and that’s what scaling is about.” But the question is, what is scaling/scalability? According to Wikipedia, scalability is “the ability of a system, ...
BEWARE! Hurricane Sandy-related Scams and Malware
The East Coast is slowly recovering from the havoc that Hurricane Sandy brought upon them. Thanks to AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast and other companies and organizations like them that are making people’s lives bearable through the ordeal by keeping lines open so they can get in touch with their friends and families. Though there are Good ...
Apple Retracts Misleading Samsung Ad
In today’s mobile news roundup: Apple’s new ad regarding Samsung’s products; Samsung boasts 3 million Galaxy Note II sold; and Microsoft tests components in Asia for smartphone plans. Apple’s new ad regarding Samsung’s products The court ordered Apple to put an ad on print and on their website that states how Samsung tablets did not ...
Compaq Turns 30: A Brief History of Texas’ Digital Gusher
The Compaq Alumni Group announced in early October that they will be celebrating the Compaq 30th Anniversary Reunion on November 4th, which also marks the 30th anniversary of the company’s first product, the Compaq Portable Computer, and the public announcement of the company name, Compaq Computer Corporation. The event will be held at Minute Maid ...
What the iPad mini Means for App Developers
“It is meaningless unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one-quarter of their present size.” – Steve Jobs That’s what the late Apple leader thought about smaller tablets. It’s just funny how the Jobs-less Apple seems to be getting further and further away from his ...
AT&T, Comcast: The Good Samaritans of Sandy Recovery
The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to the East Coast is really heart wrenching, but there’s nothing humans cannot overcome, no matter how grim. New York is slowly recovering, pumping out flood water from buildings, clearing up streets of debris, trying to salvage ruined belongings – everything its citizens can do to sort things out. ...
Dotcom Celebrates Anniversary of Megaupload Takedown With New Me.ga
The controversial Kim Dotcom has an interesting plan in commemorating the anniversary of the takedown of the equally controversial file sharing site, Megaupload. On January 20 of this year, Megaupload was taken down and all files were made unavailable to users, concluding in the arrest of Dotcom and some of his colleagues. Via Twitter, Dotcom ...
New Mobile Laws Keep You from Touching your Phone
In today’s mobile news roundup: tough, new mobile phone laws passed; Samsung Galaxy SIII mini launch date; Carriers already testing BlackBerry 10 devices; and AT&T and T-Mobile team up to bring service to Hurricane Sandy affected areas. New mobile phone laws In an effort to keep roads safe, Australia is cracking down on mobile phone ...