It wasn’t enough for Adobe to put the kibosh on the mobile version of its Flash media plugin—a group riffing on the Occupy Wall Street movement wants to see Flash buried six feet under.
Good morning and happy Friday. Here’s what’s going on in tech so far…
Where’s my iPhone 4S? Well, that all depends on which wireless carrier you’re buying the latest version of the iPhone from. Not surprisingly, some carriers are facing shortages as people line up for the coveted devices.
It’s every man for himself on Black Friday, so why not call on some smartphone apps to give you a hand? Armed with a smartphone and these holiday shopping apps, you might actually stand a chance against frenzied shoppers and dubious discounts. Here are the best Black Friday and holiday shopping apps I could find:
In the next few weeks, you’re going to have to make a decision: switch over to the new Facebook Timeline or keep your current profile. While there is plenty to like about Timeline, there are also privacy concerns galore. Luckily, you can protect yourself if you just spend some time going through your profile.
This is what it looks like when a crawling, 35-foot electro-mechanic snake meets a walking, 1,700-pound mechanical arachnid.
Hitting newsstands shortly, TIME’s “50 Best Inventions” issue spotlights some of the most amazing new ideas and innovations from the past year. If you’re a TIME subscriber, you can already see the article online right here. Of course, many of the inventions highlighted are infused with a heaping helping of technology and, as such, have [...]
Now that Amazon’s in the tablet business with the Kindle Fire, the rumor mill is starting to make noise about a Kindle Phone to follow.
The Galaxy Nexus is a new pure-Google phone which, like the Nexus S before it, is a collaboration between Google and Samsung. It’s the first handset to feature Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Google’s ambitious new upgrade. Judging from the brief time I’ve had with a unit loaned to me by Google, Ice Cream Sandwich makes the Galaxy Nexus a bit of a breakthrough. This phone lives up to its potential in ways that even the Nexus One and Nexus S did not.
How much damage can one man cause the National Aeronautics and Space Administration? If the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism’s charges against the newly arrested Robert Butyka are to be believed, the answer to that is “somewhere over half a million dollars’ worth.”
In short, SOPA, if passed, would allow the U.S. government to blacklist any website found to have infringing material, inhibiting access to those sites using DNS filtering techniques similar to those employed by China and Iran.
