RIM, the company behind the iconic Blackberry line of smartphones is rumored to be hiring YOU i Labs, an Ontario-based design firm that helped develop the front-end user experience for Taiwan’s HTC. My sources in the mobile design industry have indicated that a deal was in the works between the two companies. Initially it seemed that...
Just when you thought it wasn’t possible to waste even more time with YouTube, here comes Interactive Tic Tac Toe, a game that makes use of YouTube’s annotation feature to bring some interactivity to the video site. Users can play against the game’s producer Rutter Jared, who appears on-screen to comment on each and...
Steve Coast of OpenStreetMap wrote a blog post recently about his view that Ruby on Rails is moving away from its focus on simplicity. He complains that several new features in Rails have made it too complicated for beginners to get started quickly. Part of Coast’s argument is about the rate of change in...
It’s easy to take Twitter’s deep integration on iOS 5 and go nuts with speculation surrounding its symbolism; “Twitter is the new Facebook,” whatever that means! “Apple chose Twitter over Facebook!” Well as this video of a test build of iOS 4 from this April brings to light, perhaps the choice wasn’t necessarily Apple’s...
Is this just Airbus being wishy washy and sucking us in with a pipe dream? If the last 40 years can be a judge (where nothing much has changed – except me being more cramped than ever) I’m willing to bet it’s all a pipe dream, but then again who can resist a transparent...
The U.S. government has created what it is calling an “Internet in a suitcase” to cheat the switches on the filtering regimes of repressive countries. A kit of hardware, the suitcase creates a “shadow Internet” within a country that allows users to communicate with each other and the outside world despite electronic censorship. The...
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Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn about five real-world tactics to enhance mobile security in this report from Qwest: Avoid the Mobile Blind Spot: Five Real-World Tactics to Protect Your Enterprise Networks. VMware announced that it will acquire Digital Fuel, an IT...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. There were a few updates to Google Docs last week. Discussions, a new...
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