On Friday, Google’s Motorola Mobility unit filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington. So far, Motorola has only confirmed that this lawsuit has indeed been filed. The details of the lawsuit remain elusive, as the actual documents won’t be available on the ITC’s website until Monday...
If you’ve been to cities and you’ve had enough, have you been to Paris, France? Paris is defined by a few magical characteristics – the street signs, the architecture, the street features – and a new system at Carnegie Mellon identifies cities based on their special traits. The project describes a fairly complex algorithm...
Oracle is holding back test cases in the latest release of MySQL. It’s a move that has all the markings of the company’s continued efforts to further close up the open source software and alienate the MySQL developer community. The issue stems back to a recent discovery that the latest MySQL release has bug fixes...
Mobile carriers are like feral cats. Throw them in a bag and they’ll fight with one another rather than work together to escape. That attitude has been one of the biggest obstacles toward carriers coming together to offer a set of common network application programming interfaces (APIs) to developers. And that’s why developers have...
Just hours after Jailbreak developer Pod2g highlighted what may have been potential flaw in the way Apple’s iOS messaging platform interpreted incoming text messages, Apple has commented on the matter, warning of the limitations of the SMS protocol and reinforcing the security of its iMessage service. In a statement provided to Engadget, an Apple...
Emilie Kim on Path Emilie Kim left Apple to join Path. See Also After Selling His First Startup To Apple And Then Flying Jets, This Guy Has An Awesome New Company Facebook Is Trying To Copy Path—It’s Just Not Doing A Very Good Job Yet Mobile Social Network Path Has A Beautiful New Product...
Seven finalists pitched on stage at the EGADE Business School, Mexico City, at the Startup World pitch competition, Thursday. The winning startup with the highest score, as picked by the judges, was Modebo. Modebo designs wireless M2M devices communicated with advanced algorithms to predict energy consumption and temperature behavior. Passive architecture is used to have energy...
In the mid-1950s, economist Harry M. Markowitz first described how investors could reduce their overall risk by filling their portfolio with securities that do not usually move in the same direction. As with all significant economic research, Markowitz (who was later awarded a Nobel prize in economics for his work in portfolio theory) proved...
Rather than making the case for App.net in vague generalities, I want to tell you why I made the decision to to back the project, as someone who helps run a startup focused on adding value to your existing social networks. For those that don’t know me, I’m co-founder and head of tech at...
The Gillmor Gang — Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — huffed and puffed but could not blow Twitter’s house down. The social startup is betting we’ll still keep tweeting no matter how gated the community becomes, and with Facebook only worth some 40 billion, Jack and Dick may...