Many moons ago, a developer’s attempt to recapture the glory of youth and technology in the 980s was blocked by the arcane rules of the App Store. Manomio had created Commodore 6 for iPhone, an iPhone application that ran classic games from the computer platform, like Dragons Den and Jupiter Lander, complete with the required licensing for the material from Commodore Gaming.
Alas, the iPhone SDK agreement prohibits programs from running their own code interpreter, and so it seemed
From the breathless media coverage, the casual observer might think that Motorola’s Droid handset and Google’s Android operating system are the same. They are not.
Android is much bigger a phenomenon than any handset. The operating system is capable of running the same applications on phones, netbooks, and tablet PCs. It is also suitable for specialized devices, such as remote controls.
Because applications are resolution independent, they transition easily from one type of
Two weeks after announcing a business version of its Google App Engine application building and hosting service, Google is acknowledging that the performance of the product’s datastore has been chronically deficient for weeks. To make up for the recent string of outages, slowdowns and errors, Google is waiving datastore CPU costs retroactively effective to the… (read more)
The worldwide server market grew by unit shipments and revenue in the third quarter this year, but the downward spiral of RISC and Itanium servers continued on the gains of x86 servers, Gartner said on Monday. Worldwide server unit shipments totaled 2. million during the third quarter this year, growing by 7.2 percent compared to… (read more)
Microsoft ‘s idea that the fight against malware could be funded by an Internet tax is “horrible,” an analyst said Thursday as other experts weighed in on a recent comment by the company’s security chief. Earlier this week, Scott Charney, Microsoft’s vice president for its Trustworthy Computing group, said that while there are plenty of… (read more)
Let’s be honest. Most of us could do a better job handling our money. When times are good, we probably spend too much. When times are bad, too many of us stick our heads in the sand. Both, of course, are bad ideas. The Web has a wealth, indeed a surfeit, of tools and information… (read more)
The Apple iPad was only released 8 months ago, but the swift proliferation of the tablet PC is already changing the way businesses think about user productivity. The iPad has obviously made consumers swoon, indicated by the 2. million units sold in fiscal year 20. But enterprise adoption of the iPad has also been higher… (read more)
Had enough of products involving magic yet? No? Good, because Mobee Technology hopes to amaze and delight owners of Apple’s latest wireless input devices with the power of inductive charging and its new Magic Bar. As the members of the audience can plainly see, there is no rabbit in Mobee’s hat, and there are no… (read more)
An uptick in sales for bellwether vendors and rosy forecasts for the rest of 200 have continued to fuel the recovery in technology stocks, which finished the first quarter in positive territory for the year. On Wednesday, the last day of the quarter, Nasdaq computer stocks were up 2.5 percent and telecom stocks were up… (read more)
Given everything from the “Craigslist killer” to Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal’s campaign against the site to the escalating battle over prostitution ads, you’d have to live under a rock to miss Craigslist’s sensational presence in the media. Lost in the discussions of illicit or criminal activity, though, are the everyday scams–and every category on… (read more)
