Mellisa Tolentino
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Firefox 14, Chrome and Others Address Browser Security
As more people use the internet, their lives are like open books to the public, with many disregarding the security and privacy features being implemented by the online services they use. But browsers are the main portals we use in connecting to the interwebs, so no matter how secure online services are, if your browser ...
Apple-Samsung Secrecy Bid Rejected By US Judge
Today’s mobile news roundup features a US judge’s refusal to keep Apple-Samsung case info a secret, HTC filing a countersuit against Apple, AT&T may soon charge for Face Time, and more. Secrecy bid rejected U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh rejected the claims of both Apple and Samsung to keep some parts of their key documents ...
Amazon’s Game Connect Squares Off in the Free-to-Play Mobile Gaming App Market
Amazon just announced GameCircle, a new set of services designed to make it easier for developers to create more engaging gaming experiences and grow their business on Kindle Fire, yesterday. As I’ve said in my article, Amazon should’ve put multiplayer and game invite features to GameCenter so it can pass off as Apple’s Game Center’s ...
Microsoft Confuses Itself, Confesses Sins. Another EU Investigation Ensues
In 2009, Microsoft Corp. made a commitment to European antitrust regulators to provide “browser choice screens” (BCS) in their operating systems. Now, the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, announced that they will see if Microsoft kept to their word, stating that the punishment would be severe if they failed to do ...
Can Marissa Mayer Bring Focus, Morale and Mobile Innovation to Yahoo?
Yahoo! may have struck gold in the hiring of Marissa Mayer as their new chief executive officer. Experts in the business know Mayer’s capabilities: whatever project she was put on at Google, she turned it to gold. She was the first female employee on Google and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt recalled how Mayer was ...
Is Viacom Raising The White Flag?
Last week, Viacom pulled 26 of their channels from DirecTV to instill anger in the hearts of DirecTV subscribers, but now, they’ve put back The Daily Show and The Colbert Report back online. So is Viacom surrendering? Viacom is demanding DirecTV pay a higher fee, as much as other distributors are paying Viacom for their ...
Marissa Mayer “Passed Over” at Google: Ambition Trumps Loyalty
Yahoo! surprised everyone yesterday when they announced their new CEO – Marissa Mayer – a former Google executive. Mayer was responsible for a lot of the design aspects, as in the look and feel of Google and its products throughout the years, and that’s what Yahoo is banking on when they hired the former Google ...
iPhone 5 Already in Production, BitCoin Caught in Apple’s In-App Hack Wars
Today’s mobile news roundup features word of Apple’s next gen iPhone already being in production, Symantec’s update across its entire mobile portfolio, and the new Twonky Beam button now available for download. Apple iPhone 5 in production The Wall Street Journal reports that the iPhone 5 is already in mass production. Apple commissioned Japanese liquid-crystal-display ...
Breaking Bad 5th Season: Online Alternatives for Dish Customers
Fans of AMC’s Breaking Bad were pretty ecstatic when the premiere of the fifth season aired last night. Unfortunately, Dish Network subscribers weren’t able to catch the premiere of the meth-dealing life of Walter White because the network dropped three AMC Networks channels — IFC, WE and AMC earlier this month. Dish said that AMC’s decision to ...
Is Apple Releasing An iPad Mini or a Bigger iPod Touch?
I was browsing a gag site the other day and saw a post regarding the rumored iPad mini. I just had to laugh when someone commented that Apple was running out of new ideas that their upcoming, bigger iPod Touch would be called iPad Mini so Apple can charge more for an iPad and not ...