Quora rolled out a new feature today that will let you embed content from the popular QA site onto your web page. The move is intended to entice media companies to use the service as a resource for reporting. Quora’s embeddable quotes are very similar to Twitter’s embeddable tweets introduced late last year. If you...
Let’s talk mobile apps. Chances are good that you need one, and chances are better that the technology, price or requirements to build them have driven you away. Sure, you could use any of the copy/paste, drag and drop mobile “app” creators out there, but what you’re doing is building a Web page wrapped...
![[Infographic] Pay Attention to Mobile App Permissions!](/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/e4594_mcafee_android_permissions.jpg)
When you download an app from the Android Google Play store, it will prompt you to accept the permissions it requests from your device. Most people do not pay attention and simply download the app. This is a bad idea. Left unchecked, app permissions can open your device to possible data theft, spam and malware....
There’s more off grid clean power devices popping up on Kickstarter (I covered the ReadySet last month). Peppermint Energy, a startup in South Dakota, has developed a “utility in a box” solar power gadget called the Forty2 that collects, stores and distributes solar power. The team turned to Kickstarter recently to raise money to...
Facebook is notoriously unavailable in China, having sat on the government’s blacklist since 2010, but that isn’t stopping little known Chinese social network L99.com from plotting a US lawsuit against the Menlo Park-based company. Apple has become synonymous with legal cases in China — it paid $60 million to settle an iPad trademark dispute...
There’s news all around today about how Apple is the most valuable publicly-traded company of all time. The record was previously held by Microsoft, with a total market cap of $618.89 billion, but today Apple surpassed that figure, totaling $620.66 billion as of the time of this writing. The only problem here is that nobody seems...
Over the weekend, cloud gaming company OnLive went through a sort of quasi-bankruptcy, selling off its assets and leaving its investors, employees, and stockholders out in the cold. The only possible winners? OnLive’s very small number of users. Early Friday, Mashable reported that OnLive might be shutting down. Later in the day, OnLive’s Director...
Get behind the wheel for one last road trip before summer ends. But first check out our pick of GPS apps! If your ride still sports a clunker of a window-mount GPS unit, it’s high time to switch to your smartphone. GPS apps have come a long way in the past few years, and...
Anyone concerned about protecting personal data has to feel like their firewall is more of a pasta strainer right about now. You even leak data when you download apps. Here’s an app desiged to help you understand what you’re giving up when you download. Every time you download an app, you pass a stream...
New technologies are exciting. Entrepreneurs and innovators scramble to see what they can do with the next big thing and the media proclaims that everyone will be using it within months. In the real world, technology takes time to develop, bring to market and gain adoption. One such technology, near field communications (NFC), has...