Swype has been blowing minds since it first launched at TechCrunch 50 back in September of 2008. For those unfamiliar, Swype is the maker of an awesome app that allows users of touchscreen mobile devices to type messages with one swipe of the finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard. The alternative (and...
Apple’s Highly Objectionable App Store Censorship When Jobs introduced the App Store in June 2008, porn was at the top of the not-allowed-here list of content. Some apps containing nudity snuck into the App Store, and were later pulled. Now only partial nudity seems to show up (e.g. Beautiful Boobs, Asian Boobs), especially if...
This little-known video was put together by Apple employees to celebrate Steve Job’s 30th birthday back on February 24th 1985. Given the tragic news this week, the video and its collection of memories is all the more poignant. As Harry McCracken notes, the film contains a number of photos and events that are not...
Sites across the Web created some amazing tributes to Steve Jobs over the last day. One of our favorites was our friends at Boing Boing, who overhauled the theme of their front page with a touching, nostalgic classic Mac look. The team at WordPress loved it, too, so they worked through the night to...
Yahoo is rumoured to be considering the sale of its stake in its high-performing business in Japan to help simplify a potential sale of the struggling firm. The company may offload its 35% stake in Yahoo Japan, the entity it launched with operator Softbank in 1996, according to Reuters. In contrast to its troubles...
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“‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.’ It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want...
Google Maps is an incredible technology. Built by acquired startups and licensed commercial data, it’s refined, repaired and extended by thousands of everyday people around the world using Google’s Map Maker editing service. Just today a big batch of new citizen contributed roads and landmarks went live in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. But what...
While mobile operators are increasingly relying on Wi-Fi to augment their cellular networks, it’s still a lesser tool in their toolbox. But in the coming year, Wi-Fi is going to play a more vital role for carriers turning operators from providers of cellular voice and data to purveyors of connectivity. That’s the prediction of...
If you were having trouble streaming dubstep remixes hosted on SoundCloud lastnight, you’re not the only one. The site fell victim to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the company confirmed on its status blog today. The social audio-sharing site experienced several hours of intermittent downtime yesterday as SoundCloud’s engineers fought off the...