There’s a lot of talk about the democratization of data, but simply making data sets publicly available leaves unresloved a couple of key problems. One is that users have to know the data is available, and the other is they have to know how to work with it to get the information they want....
The Facebook engineering bootcamp is a unique new joiner initiation program that the company is very proud about, and well know for. The latest video from Facebook gives more insight into the program shedding light on what it is like to join the company as a new engineer. A selection of former bootcampers discuss...
Good Technology has already enabled companies to extend security and management to a fleet of mobile devices that consumers are bringing to their IT managers. However, the underlying structure has worked primarily with some basic applications such as email, contacts and calendar. Now, the company is looking to extend its technology to independent software...
Image: Apple Steven Cook Steven Cook is former Samsung Electronics SVP, CMO, North America; former PG and Coca-Cola global brand marketer, and CMO Council Advisory Board Member. Recent Posts Jim Rogers Jim Rogers is Vice President of Marketing at Neustar, Mobile Registry Services. Recent Posts While it was once merely difficult to communicate the...
Image: Sachin’s Posterous See Also: A Survival Guide For Eating At Sketchy Restaurants If You’re Stuck On T-Mobile, The Galaxy S II Is Your Only Hope Big, Beautiful Photos Of Facebook’s iPad App One of the countless people influenced by Steve Jobs was former Apple engineer and Posterous founder Sachin Agarwal. Agarwal talked...
Adobe is developing an upcoming feature for Photoshop that could end the problem of blurred photos forever. The new feature was demoed at the company’s MAX 2011 event, drawing gasps of amazement from a crowd that witnessed a blurred photo, retouched and perfected in seconds. Advanced algorithms calculate the movements of the camera at the...
Well if it isn’t my old friend the new Facebook app developer page … Yes that mysteriously up-to-date Facebook Mobile Developer page from a couple of weeks ago has finally gone officially live with its explanation of how the synchronized Facebook mobile platform will work across its iPhone, iPad, web apps and eventually Android apps (sometimes...
As network service providers continue to explore ways to monetize new value from their networks, systems and marketing assets, two key points have emerged: First, network service providers can add value to new applications and services by securely exposing their network capabilities through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs); second, understanding which network capabilities hold the...
Seems rather bizarre that Twitter doesn’t own the trademark to the word “tweet” doesn’t it? Well in fact, it doesn’t. The word is a registered trademark of a company called Twittad. Twittad says it’s “the largest and most effective form of sponsored advertising on Twitter.” And, smartly, in 2008 the company trademark the word...
Gmail users got a hefty dose of reality today when it was revealed that Google handed over one user’s private data to the U.S. government, who requested it without a search warrant. The contacts list and IP address data of Jacob Applebaum, a WikiLeaks volunteer and developer for Tor was given to the U.S....