What is a tablet and who needs one anyway? Are tablets a fad and will they soon fade into irrelevance like Netbooks? Will tablets replace traditional PCs? Is there a tablet market or just an iPad market?
Google has earned a reputation of late for releasing troubled iOS apps. Gmail was so buggy in its initial state that Google had to pull it from the App Store. Google+ was temperamental too, and even now it lags behind its Android counterpart in getting new features.
Today, as millions of Americans flock to the malls in pursuit of Black Friday deals, some of those malls will be tracking customers by their cellphone signals.
There’s little to make you feel as out of touch with what’s happening with “the kids today” as discovering that there are all manner of words that apparently have double meanings that you were entirely unaware of. For example, “Kmart.” Or “hobo.” Or “murder.” All of which were contained on a list of obscene words that the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority recently attempted to have banned from text messaging within the country.
Once upon a time, the name “Windows” stood for something. Several things, actually. It was (and is) the world’s dominant personal-computer operating system–a huge, powerful, feature-rich, messy, often infuriating and largely unavoidable piece of software. Windows’ market share has been so overwhelming for so long that there are adults who don’t know what life was like before it.
A new poll finds 60% of Americans spend between one and six hours a day viewing content on electronic devices.
Here’s a novel way to ensure that porn spammers don’t create websites based around your products; own all of the pervy variant domain names up yourself. That seems to be the logic behind a recent complaint that ended with Apple taking ownership of seven iPhone-related domains, four of which are clearly not safe for work from their names alone.
If you’re wondering what the most active account in the history of Twitter is, and just how many tweets it’s managed to send, prepare to have your mind blown.
What would it look like if some mad Dr. Moreau combined an anteater, a cockroach and a bounce house? You’d get the Ant-Roach, the 15-foot inflatable walking robot.
–A senior FCC official, speaking to the New York Times on condition of anonymity. The FCC acted yesterday to thwart AT&T’s proposed $39 billion merger with T-Mobile. F.C.C. Seeks Review of AT&T Merger With T-Mobile [New York Times]
Wave goodbye to Google Wave and a bunch of others stuff, says Google, listing a full seven services due to sign off permanently over the next few months.
