Games And Business Get Friendly
I always get a chuckle when someone is "surprised" that video games can offer value and lessons to business and tech. What a surprise! After all, video games have only been doing that since they first came into existence.
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Finding Your Company's Social Data
So you've decided that some form of enterprise social networking application would be a good fit in your business and help keep employees connected and improve collaboration? Great, but once you've done this, you should make sure that you have some view into how well your employees are embracing social networking.
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Keeping Facebook In Its Place(s)
I know what you did last summer! And last Tuesday afternoon. And last night. OK, I don't actually know this, but Facebook Places does
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3D TV Must Be Stopped
Of all the bad ideas on the technology scene -- and there are plenty -- 3D television is one of the worst. Like the gasoline-powered turtleneck sweater that comedian Steve Martin extolled decades ago, it's an unnecessary invention.
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Virtualization Is IT Journey That Begins With Consolidation
As IT shops look at their gains from consolidating servers, they realize this was just a first step brought about by implementing virtualization. Once you've consolidated, you realize how many more steps are both possible and necessary if virtualization is going to lead to more payback.
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Computing's Next Gesture
Touch based interfaces have become all the rage, with the intuitive interfaces of the iPhone and iPad leading the way. But a new type of interface is starting to gain momentum, and it doesn't need a mouse, keyboard or touch screen, just the user's hands and face.
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Viacom Appeals YouTube Copyright Ruling
Viacom last week fulfilled its promise and appealed the summary judgment granted to YouTube in June. If Viacom wins, companies allowing users to submit content could be forced to take a more active role in watching out for copyright infringement.
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The Failure Of The Digital Cafe
As human beings we are social creatures, most people find it enjoyable to be out in social situations with groups of friends. But are modern technologies destroying the "social" aspect of social situations?
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Outrage Over U.S. Plan To Train Offshore Workers
Many InformationWeek readers are against outsourcing; many are for it. But for once we seem to have found consensus on at least one aspect of this divisive issue—it's not something U.S. taxpayers should be funding.
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Privacy Gets A Senate Hearing
A recent Senate hearing showed some well-informed congressman making intelligent comments about the problem of privacy and the Internet today. But while the attention to privacy was promising, any actual privacy legislation out of Congress would probably make privacy issues worse, not better.
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Google Docs Gets Smartquote Controls
Google on Tuesday is adding two new features to Google Docs: The ability to translate documents into one of 53 languages and the ability to remove smartquotes.
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Rolling Back The DMCA
Probably one of the most damaging things to happen to technology in the last twenty years was the passage of the DMCA. But a recent decision by the Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress has rolled back some of the reach of the nefarious DMCA.
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The End of Closed iPhones?
Go ahead and pick the iPhone's digital lock. The U.S. Copyright Office says that's okay. In a surprise decision, the Copyright Office granted the Electronic Frontier Foundations' request for three exemptions from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions.
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Regulating Google Search
The New York Times on Wednesday proposed that the government should regulate Google's search algorithm. It's such a baffling bad idea that it's hard to know where to start criticizing it.
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Death Knell For Software Patents
Could it be that software patents, which in my opinion have mainly been a drain on innovation, are finally on death’s door? A recent decision could point to the answer being yes.
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Google Launches Ultrafast Broadband Community Site
Google isn't yet ready to announce which community or communities will receive the gift of ultrafast broadband -- that's coming later this year.
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The New 3D Wave Of Computing
There’s a new wave coming in computing, one that will change the way you look at the Web and at applications. What is it? Let’s just say, Coming Soon! This Blog! In 3D!!
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New But Familiar Look In Firefox 4 Beta
The recently released beta of Firefox 4 shows off some new features and boosted HTML 5 support. But the biggest surprise is how much the redesigned Firefox interface looks like Google Chrome.
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Did Twitter Miss Their Goal-den Opportunity?
As the World Cup nears the final championship game, did Twitter miss an opportunity to kick the winning goal for the messaging service?
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Wikileaks: An Enemy Of Open Society?
Steven Aftergood, who runs the Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy News site, on Monday dropped the hammer on Wikileaks, a Web site now infamous for exposing documents that countries and other powerful entities wish to keep secret. "WikiLeaks must be counted among the enemies of open society because it does not respect the rule of law nor does it honor the rights of individuals," declared Aftergood in a blog post.
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There's No (New) Internet Kill Switch
The Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill passed out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday to await consideration by the full Senate. But not everyone is satisfied with what it says.
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Mobile Apps Are Watching You
The Police famously (and creepily) sang “every step you take, I’ll be watching you”. Now, many people are worried about just how much their mobile devices and applications are watching where they go and what they do.
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Google Launches Web Site Promoting HTML5
Google has launched a new Web site called HTML5 Rocks to help educate developers and designers about HTML5. And it's not just HTML5 as a technology that rocks: The Web site rocks too.
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Adobe Can Win The 250 Million Flash Bet
So Adobe says that Flash will be running on 250 million smart phones in two years? Given the amount of help Adobe will likely get from smartphone makers, it could easily happen.
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Avaak Offers An Easy Vue To Video
For a while now, people have been using Internet-connected video cameras to keep a remote eye on businesses, vacation homes, pets, and kids. But setting up these online video systems is often complex and time consuming. That’s where Avaak Vue comes in.
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A Simple Way To Protect Your Online Privacy
The Facebook CEO took to the stage yesterday to discuss how the current health of the company and to answer questions about how Facebook handles privacy. Here's one way to easily handle privacy related to sharing content online.
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Google's 'Screw Up' Looks Expensive
Google's Street View snafu may end up being one of the more costly copy-and-paste mistakes in recent memory. In the past ten days, there have been six lawsuits filed against Google in the U.S. for alleged illegal data interception.
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Search, Social, And Aggregation
Google all but admitted last week that the dominant forms of content discovery -- search and social networking -- aren't enough.
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Google To Sell Music Through Android Market
Google isn't merely taking aim at the iPhone. It has set its sights on iTunes, the technology that Apple relies on to control the flow of data on the iPhone and to limit the interoperability of competitors' devices.
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Two Services Creating Interactive Weddings
Two new companies are aiming to help couples create interactive weddings and involve guests like never before.
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Google's Sergey Brin: We Screwed Up
Following the keynote presentations on Wednesday at Google IO, the company's annual developer conference, Google hosted several press briefings to delve deeper into some of the announcements of the day.
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How To Use Social Lending
If you are having trouble obtaining a loan from your local bank, social lending could provide an alternative way to obtain the funds you seek.
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Adobe vs. Apple: Pray Both Lose
Adobe's ad campaign proclaiming "love" for Apple is the most ill-conceived publicity stunt in recent memory, excluding perhaps the balloon boy hoax.
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My Favorite Transit Apps
I love public transportation and would like to share some of my favorite web and mobile transit applications with you.
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Web 2.0: IBM's Experimental iPhone E-Mail Client
Among the various interesting keynote presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo earlier this week was one by IBM mobile computing researcher Jeff Pierce.
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Web 2.0: Curtailing Platform Power
The theme of the Web 2.0 Expo this year was "the power of platforms." There's power in owning a platform, alright. Just look at Apple: With the stroke of a pen, it can revise its developer agreement and disallow the use of Flash and any number of other third-party development tools for creating iPhone apps.
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Web 2.0: Apple's Fetish For Silence
At the Web 2.0 Expo, Apple is everywhere without actually being present. Last month, Web 2.0 co-founders John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly published an open letter to Apple asking the company to participate in the conference. To no one's surprise, Apple did not respond.
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Suggestions For Twitter Anywhere
At the Twitter Chirp developer gathering last month, Twitter launched their new, "@Anywhere functionality." I'd like to share my first experience using the service and some suggestions for improvement.
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What Apple Owes Developers
When the little people make enough noise, Apple CEO Steve Jobs switches his mode of public interaction from terse e-mail replies to open letters. That's what happened on Thursday when Jobs finally articulated his disdain for Adobe's Flash technology in a rare public post.
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NYC And Philadelphia Transit Goes Real-Time
Earlier this week, the NYC transit authority announced their first real-time content. Both NYC and Philadelphia are testing real-time transit information that will help take transit into the future.
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Advantage Android
Apple's iPhone is the favorite smart phone platform among mobile developers, according to a recent survey conducted by Ovum.
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Microsoft Kin Marketing Goes Overboard
Microsoft's new commercial for its Kin mobile phone is so obviously provocative that it could only be planned. It's as if someone in the company's marketing department said, "We have to make sure this phone is not ignored."
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Testing Apple's iPad On The Road
I recently took a business trip to San Francisco. I took the Apple iPad with me and put it through its paces as a potential laptop replacement. How did it fare?
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Five Reasons The iPad Amazes
Despite its shortcomings, the iPad is still a really interesting and amazing piece of technology. Here are five things about the iPad that make it the game-changer that it is.
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Apple Says It Moved 300,000 iPads On Saturday
A press release from Apple hit the wires this morning, trumpeting the company's first-day sales of the iPad. It says on Saturday alone, 300,000 were delivered to those who pre-ordered in addition to those that were sold in Apple stores.
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Is Your Car The Next Platform?
We are already familiar with a variety of developer platforms including the iPhone, Android and now the iPad. After the demo I received from Ford last week, I started to wonder if the car is the next developer platform.
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Google Leads In Laughs
Google has something that too many other organizations don't seem to value: A sense of humor.
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iPad Apps Store Goes Live In iTunes
Even though the iPad isn't yet available to most people, Apple has launched the official list of iPad-optimized applications in the iTunes Apps Store.
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iPad Encouraging New Levels Of Tech Obsession
Techies, geeks and Apple fanboys alike are exhibiting alarming symptoms of obsession over the iPad. Apple is doing its own part, too, to fan the flames of excitement with its controlled mitigation of minutia.
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Apple Updates iTunes Ahead Of iPad Launch
Today Apple made iTunes version 9.1 available via its software update tools. The new version of iTunes offers just a handful of new features, mostly geared toward Saturday's launch of the iPad.
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