Facebook announced Facebook Home today. It’s an application layer that takes over Google‘s Android, pushing the traditional design with third party applications into the background. Mark Zuckerberg says the goal of the Facebook Home design is to put people people first, applications second. To put people first, Zuckerberg has images of your friends, and...
Daily Archives: April 4, 2013
HP Will Launch Its Pride-And-Joy Moonshot Servers On Monday (HPQ)
HP See Also Goldman Sachs Tells Investors To Sell HP’s Stock, Says It’s Worth $16 A Share Michael Dell Promises Employees That Big Changes Are Coming To The PC Business 15 More Tech Skills That Can Instantly Net You A $100,000+ Salary HP is holding a press conference on Monday to officially launch the...
HP Will Launch Its Pride-And-Joy Moonshot Servers On Monday (HPQ)
HP See Also Goldman Sachs Tells Investors To Sell HP’s Stock, Says It’s Worth $16 A Share Michael Dell Promises Employees That Big Changes Are Coming To The PC Business 15 More Tech Skills That Can Instantly Net You A $100,000+ Salary HP is holding a press conference on Monday to officially launch the...
CHART OF THE DAY: People Say They Don’t Want A Facebook Phone (FB)
This means almost nothing. But, what the heck, we’re going to toss it out there any way. According to an online survey of consumers from Retrevo, people didn’t want a Facebook phone, or a Facebook phone service. Luckily for them, they’re not getting one! But, Facebook wants to take over your phone creating a...
CHART OF THE DAY: People Say They Don’t Want A Facebook Phone (FB)
This means almost nothing. But, what the heck, we’re going to toss it out there any way. According to an online survey of consumers from Retrevo, people didn’t want a Facebook phone, or a Facebook phone service. Luckily for them, they’re not getting one! But, Facebook wants to take over your phone creating a...
Firefox for Android beta adds custom fonts Charis and Open Sans, brings more HTML5 optimizations
Firefox 20 was released just two days ago, but Mozilla has already debuted a new Firefox for Android beta. This new release adds open source custom fonts and HTML5 compatibility optimizations. The Firefox beta for Android comes with the custom open source fonts Charis and Open Sans. They will replace the default Android fonts...
Amendment to CISPA proposed requiring ‘reasonable efforts’ to strip personally identifying information
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, is back, as you well know by now. It was reintroduced whole-cloth this legislative session. Previously, it passed the House and was ignored by the Senate. In its prior and current form, the two being the same, CISPA is a controversial bill, fraught with grave privacy...
Irreverent Hacker’s Jail Cell Amplifies His Activism
Wikimedia Commons/Weev Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer in 2010 Andrew “weev” Auernheimer, the hacker who released hundreds of thousands of iPad owners’ email addresses, is live-tweeting his 41-month jail term. Auernheimer has remained unapologetic about the offense, telling Business Insider that all he did was access a public and unsecure Web server — an action which,...
Facebook Home doesn’t impress, but its potential as a data collection powerhouse does
By now you know that Facebook has released its first-ever ‘Facebook phone’. Starting April 12, users can download the social network company’s new Android launcher software called ‘Home’ onto one of several Android devices to help make the experience more about the people instead of the apps. We attended Facebook’s press event today at its Menlo...
Facebook Home doesn’t impress, but its potential as a data collection powerhouse does
By now you know that Facebook has released its first-ever ‘Facebook phone’. Starting April 12, users can download the social network company’s new Android launcher software called ‘Home’ onto one of several Android devices to help make the experience more about the people instead of the apps. We attended Facebook’s press event today at its Menlo...