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Update on 02/22/2012
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AP - Mobile applications seeking to collect personal information will have to forewarn users as part of an agreement reached in California. |
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Update on 02/22/2012
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 AP - Hewlett-Packard Co., the maker of PCs and printers, on Wednesday said its net income fell, while sales fell 7 percent in the first full quarter under new CEO Meg Whitman.
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Update on 02/22/2012
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AP - Microsoft on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the European Union's competition regulator against Motorola Mobility and its soon-to-be owner Google, saying Motorola's aggressive enforcement of patent rights against rivals breaks competition rules. |
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Update on 02/22/2012
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Yahoo! News - Smartphones are here to stay, and it's no surprise why. They connect us to Facebook, help us find directions to the office, take pictures, and can even let us connect our laptops to the internet from the side of the road. But … |
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Update on 02/22/2012
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Yahoo! News - Japan may have gotten the early jump on some PlayStation Vita love, but the U.S. launch is finally here and the system is now available for all who desire it. We've already spent some serious time with the new handheld, and if … |
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Update on 02/21/2012
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Mashable - Calling all supertaster space nerds: NASA wants your help to improve the bland food astronauts would have to eat while on a mission to Mars. |
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Update on 02/22/2012
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Reuters - Internet service providers need to work harder to prevent hacks, data theft and other fraud, including contacting customers whose infected computers have been hijacked by organized crime and helping them clean out viruses, the head of the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday. |
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Update on 02/22/2012
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Appolicious - Today’s most innovative comedians are not necessarily telling jokes in front of a live audience, on TV, or in the movies. A new golden age of comedy is playing out online and via mobile applications for smartphones and tablet computers. There are apps that showcase the funniest satirists on Twitter, broadcast interviews with newcomers and comedy legends, and make classic publications like The Onion and Cracked come alive. |
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Update on 02/22/2012
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 Reuters - Sony Corp's Vita hits the United States on Wednesday, the latest in a long line of mobile gaming gadgets in the spirit of Nintendo's Game Boy and Atari's Lynx. But with gaming habits rapidly changing, it may also be the last of its breed.
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Update on 02/22/2012
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Appolicious - Are you sick of the way your Android phone organizes your text messages? The innovative and free Powow: Text Messaging app for Android is a fabulous new way to organize your text messages just by downloading this modern and fun text app. |
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Update on 02/22/2012
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | According to U.S. News & World Report, the Department of Education wants students, teachers and administrators to use Twitter to provide feedback about education policies and the state of education. Since I do not have a Twitter profile, I would like to provide some opinions of a group of educators who recently lunched together after spending time working on standardized test revisions. |
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Update on 02/22/2012
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 AP - Authorities are using a court order to determine if a serial cabin burglar in the southern Utah wilderness is using a cell phone to call his family.
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Update on 02/22/2012
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Appolicious - Twitter has rolled out a bunch of new updates for its Android app, mostly aimed at making it work better on the newest tablets and newer versions of Android. |
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Update on 02/22/2012
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Digital Trends - A new study from Nielsenâs upcoming United States Digital Consumer Report states that 29 percent of all smartphone users utilize their mobile devices to aid in shopping-related activities, whether online or in stores. Are we surprised the numbers seem relatively low even though numerous apps have been created to help consumers do everything from compare prices, scan barcodes and read product reviews with just a tap and a swipe of a finger? |
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Update on 02/22/2012
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ContributorNetwork - Ubuntu is an African word that roughly translates to "humanity to others." It's also "the third most popular desktop operating system in the world," behind Windows and OS X, according to its developer outreach page. And it might be coming to an Android smartphone near you, turning it into a home desktop PC as well as a media center. |
