Last week, Apple passed Microsoft in market capitalization. Microsoft is still the most profitable company in the segment, and as Jobs himself would point out, it is all about profit. However the one saying I’ve made famous is that “perception is 100 percent of reality,” and the perception is that Apple did and continues to [...]
Contrition is not something you normally see from Facebook. What are they going to do, say sorry for trying to squeeze a profit out of all that data everyone’s willfully throwing at them? Sure, they have their fun over at Facebook HQ. Everyone gets naptime, there’s a kegerator next to every computer, and most clothing [...]
The One Laptop Per Child project announced Friday that it has teamed up with semiconductor manufacturer Marvell to offer kids in developing nations a computer for under $100. This time, the project will offer Marvell’s Moby tablet computer. Previous attempts by the OLPC to provide children in developing nations sub-$100 computers hit various snags and [...]
Thanks to advances in computer-generated technology, the images simply jump out at you from the TV screen, as all good commercials should: massive sheets of orange fabric covering up the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles and unfolding down the sides of buildings on the Las Vegas Strip, dropping from the top of the Gateway Arch [...]
One of the early predictions of a Verizon iPhone goes back to 2007, when ZDNet’s Russell Shaw predicted the iPhone would be on Verizon within a year. Since then, there have been countless other stories offering predictions or circulating rumors that inside sources had disclosed a Verizon iPhone would “definitely” be coming in the next [...]
To the average user, Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platforms are two variations of the same thing — they’re just software that runs smartphones. Both offer touchscreen capabilities, and both offer third-party applications that enhance the experience. The differences, however, are significant, and they go far beyond hardware, which Apple typically claims as its chief [...]
The new privacy controls Facebook announced Wednesday were met with criticism the following day from privacy groups that called the new policies inadequate. In a conference call on Thursday, representatives of the groups insisted on a Federal Trade Commission investigation of the social networking giant and regulatory oversight. They also questioned Facebook’s commitment to privacy [...]
Symantec is planning to introduce two mobile apps and a Software as a Service security application under an initiative dubbed “Norton Everywhere.” The two apps are Norton Smartphone Security for Android Beta and Norton Connect Beta. The third product, Norton DNS Beta, is a cloud-based service through which users are able to configure their routers [...]
Amid all the controversy over online privacy, one thing has been treated as an almost universal given: Young people don’t care about privacy the way their cautious, conservative elders do. As it turns out, the meme is kind of wrong. Younger Internet users are just as likely as many adults to worry about the amount [...]
You might think that someone at Microsoft is a big fan of Dr. Seuss; naming the new Windows Phones the “Kin One” and “Kin Two” certainly conjures up images of critters that would assist the Cat in the Hat in wreaking havoc on Sally and her brother’s house. But it’s really Kin as in kinship; [...]
