Drake Martinet in AsiaD on October 20, 2011 at 8:36 pm PT
Image2Play, which demoed today at
AsiaD, attempts to bring images taken from movies back to life by reconnecting them with the movies from which they originate — all in your Web browser.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 9, 2011 at 10:17 am PT
Cupertino issues the OS update ahead of its original plan, which would have had it out on Friday.
The update brings faster Web browsing and improved media streaming to the iPad and recent iPhone and iPod Touch models. For iPhone 4 users, it will also add the ability to act as a portable hotspot–a feature already present on Verizon models.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 3, 2011 at 3:17 pm PT
The Canadian phone maker heads to San Francisco to sell press and analysts on its developer strategy, not to mention give the press another brief glimpse at the forthcoming PlayBook tablet.
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Joe Light, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 31, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
imes are good for Web- and mobile-application developers.
The number of online listings containing the keywords “HTML5,” “Mobile app,” and “Android,” have skyrocketed over the past year, making them the fastest growing keywords in jobs posted online, according to data tracked by jobs search engine Indeed.com.
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Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on December 2, 2010 at 4:00 am PT
Friction: It keeps our shoes on, it’s a buzzword at product meetings and UX conferences and it’s the sticking force that keeps money in people’s pockets. So, reducing it can mean changing the game for an entire arena–just look at eBay’s PayPal and Netflix.
Minus, a sharing service currently limited to images, mixes some HTML5 and cutting-edge Javascripting to lower the friction in online image sharing about as far as it can go without eliminating the drag-and-drop.
John Paczkowski in News on November 16, 2010 at 9:15 am PT
Research in Motion hasn’t yet launched its new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and won’t until 2011, but it’s already kicked off the campaign to position it against what’s likely to be its archrival: Apple’s iPad. And–no surprise–in RIM’s side-by-side comparison, the PlayBook comes out on top.
John Paczkowski in News on October 22, 2010 at 4:15 pm PT
For Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, co-directors of Palm’s developer program, Hewlett-Packard was a nice place to visit, but not one in which they particularly wanted to live. And so the two are leaving the company, evidently to start a new software development consultancy, with HP among the first clients.
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Beth Callaghan in News on September 21, 2010 at 12:48 pm PT
Twitter has
posted an official explanation of the “onMouseOver” security flaw that hit users of the Web site this morning and has since been resolved: “The security exploit that caused problems this morning Pacific time was caused by cross-site scripting (XSS)…In this case, users submitted javascript code as plain text into a Tweet that could be executed in the browser of another user.” Security team member Bob Lord said that the issue had been discovered and patched last month, but a recent site update resurfaced it.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 17, 2010 at 11:47 am PT
Your identity as a dog may still be safe on the Internet. Everything else about you, though, is looking increasingly like an open book.
Latest data point: No matter what you do to stay anonymous, there’s a good chance your Web browser is betraying your identity, by leaving a unique fingerprint every time you visit a site.
