Just as Sony’s settling its lawsuit with PS3 root-key hacker George Hotz, developer Jaimes Laird says he’s managed to crack the private keys for Apple’s AirPlay wireless streaming protocol.
Laird’s girlfriend moved and was having issues getting her music to stream properly, so he popped open her Airport Express, “dumped the …
For once, here’s a smartphone app that does something more productive than knocking over pig-built structures or killing time in a waiting room: A team of grad students across the country have adapted a Samsung Focus phone running Windows 7 to allow it to instantly diagnose malaria.
The student, led by 25-year-old University of …
Adobe rolls out subscription pricing
Adobe’s powerful-but-expensive Creative Suite of design products have just gotten a more wallet friendly pricing structure: monthly subscriptions.
Starting with the new Creative Suite 5.5 product line, you’ll have the option of buying the full or upgrade versions of various pieces of software such
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If you use Pandora’s Android app, beware: Pandora’s channeling your personal info to third party advertisers, including your birthdate, gender, Android ID, and GPS information.
Evidence for this first appeared in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, which reported that the company was one of many smartphone app manufacturers …
The ongoing fight between Time Warner Cable and Viacom over whether the former has the right to include Viacom channels on their iPad app is getting more serious…and more litigious. TWC has filed a request that a New York District Court rule its existing carriage agreement with Viacom allows it to stream Viacom’s channels on the …
Android users can celebrate with another victory. After a long-awaited wait, the LinkedIn app has finally become available for the Android Marketplace. Now it’s possible to schmooze and network on the go.
Although the beta app launched back in December, the functionality was limited to very few features. Thankfully, the official …
TweetDeck is accepting sign-ups for a beta version of TweetDeck Web, an in-browser adaptation of the Twitter and Facebook client.
TweetDeck Web will be quite similar to the existing app for Google’s Chrome browser. Like the TweetDeck desktop application, it allows the user to view several Twitter and Facebook feeds at once across …
Chrome OS notebooks won’t arrive until later this year, but Google is already planning for tablets.
CNet’s Stephen Shankland found lots of tablet evidence among the Chrome OS source code, including a virtual keyboard and touch-optimized tabs. Google then confirmed that it’s “engaging in early open-source work for the tablet form …
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Grooveshark became a rare victim of Android Market policy on Tuesday, when Google removed the streaming music app without explanation of which policies were violated.
Unlike other streaming music services, such as Rdio and MOG, Grooveshark doesn’t license …
A cloud-based, streaming music service from Google is almost certainly an inevitability now, as a freshly leaked version of the Android Music player has been making its way around the tubes.
The app looks similar to the music player found on the new Android Honeycomb tablets but works on Android smartphones as well. I took it for a …
Want to FaceTime a bunch of people at once? Boo hoo. Skype for iPhone can’t do it either. Fring, another VOIP service, just started offering free group video calling – but it’s limited to a private beta build. Which means perhaps in a few months, it might get to tantalize the public with its video wiles.
The feature lets you …
In today’s digital age, our sense of reality is often hardened by the different forms of media pelting us from every angle, especially when it comes to conflict overseas.
Danfung Dennis — an award-winning mixed-media storyteller — wanted to undue our collective numbness with an innovative new iPad app that seeks to blend …
