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Who’s building the hottest news media technologies in the world? Every year the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation takes on the challenge of judging from hundreds of entrants in the Knight News Challenge and selecting a small number of them to fund with up to $5 million in total backing. This year...
Last week Microsoft issued a blog post stating that Internet Explorer will not support WebGL because WebGL is inherently insecure. The post was based on research conducted by the firm Context, which showed that WebGL could be used for denial of service attacks or use the GPU to run malicious code. Microsoft complained that...
Apple seems to have closed down the ability to create new reviews of Final Cut Pro X on the Mac App Store and removed existing submissions. While it could be a bug or part of maintenance, it appears that the company is trying to control damage after a scathing response to the new version...
Social networks are incredible sources of information about local events and happenings. If you want to know what’s happening in town tonight, you can fire up Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare or Gowalla on your iPhone to see where your friends are at or just to see what people are up to. Unfortunately, you’re going to...
Apple has removed the ThirdIntifada app from the App Store, after the Israeli government asked Apple to get rid of it earlier this week. ThirdIntifada was used to distribute anti-Israeli editorial and announce scheduled protests to Palestinian users. Intifada is an Arabic word that means “shaking off” but can be more accurately translated to...
On the heels of PopCap’s billion dollar acquisition comes some interesting news from the social games front: Game developer Storm8 is today announcing a few impressive stats. Among other things, the company is claiming that it has become the “largest mobile social games developer in the U.S.”, boasting over 210 million downloads across iOS...
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Nearly a year ago, I wrote a post titled “Is Android Surging Only Because Apple Is Letting It?“. Not surprisingly, it fired people up. About 1,000 comments later, there was a full-on fanboy war between the Apple and Google sides. But the point was actually something we can look back on. Was Android surging...
The old days of securing information by erecting virtual barbed-wire fences are over. In the modern era of cloud computing, security aspects have to be incorporated into software applications from the ground floor to ensure safety, according to a Wednesday afternoon panel at the Structure 2011 conference in San Francisco. “When we used to...