Warner Bros. has confirmed it will no longer be beholden to rights that would see its movies disappear from streaming sites while those titles are available on HBO and its HBO Go web and mobile applications. The closing of this so-called “HBO window” could go a long way toward making digital ownership of UltraViolet...
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The SUP system is designed to work with enterprise applications to generate RESTful Web services. Those services are exposed as APIs, and are generated for use by one of the three leading mobile platforms. There’s a reason for this: SAP wants its mobile apps to look like they belong on the platforms on which...
Amazon in late September launched new Kindle devices including Kindle Fire, a tablet that makes content a centerpiece of its tablet strategy. It also announced a new browser, Amazon Silk, that proposed to use cloud to offer a blazing fast experience. Silk’s hybrid browser architecture quickly triggered some privacy concerns. Amazon weighed in on my...
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The SAIcast covers news, new and old, on this podcast. The common thread, however, has to do with big leadership decisions. First up, Netflix and their rapid back-pedal away from Qwikster, then iPhone 4S and the reasoning behind why its not iPhone 5, and finally Yahoo, Jerry Yang and their search for a path...
In a move that is sure to brighten the face of every Windows Phone fan, Acer is set to release a very inexpensive handset for the platform later this year, before Christmas, perhaps opening a new avenue for the WP7 line to finally post some worthy sales numbers. After all, nearly every reviewer finds...
Two-year-old social network enhancing service Friend.ly has been acquired by Facebook, announced the Friend.ly blog earlier today. Friend.ly is a place where people can get to know each other based on random questions you might have in common. Answer a question posed by the service, and you’ll be able to see how other people...
The Kenbak-1 apparently predates the Altair and is the earliest “personal” microcomputer in existence. To use it you flipped a bunch of switches and watched the lights. A PS3 this definitely wasn’t. A tinkerer named Mark Wilson recently rebuilt a mini version of the Kenbak using an Arduino board, timing chip, and some memory,...
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