Month: January 2013

Apple Business

Apple has a porn problem, and it’s about to get worse

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As reported on The Verge. By Joshua Topolsky Adult content in Vine and Twitter apps raises questions only Cupertino can answer On Sunday, a number of news outlets ran stories covering the rise of easily-accessible pornography on the new video sharing app Vine, causing a firestorm of debate online. The New York Times’ Nick Bilton tweeted that pornographic material was discoverable thanks to simple hashtags such as #porn.   VINE DOESN’T HAVE A PORN PROBLEM — APPLE HAS A POLICY PROBLEM But the truth…

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Mobile

Backed Or Whacked: Smartphones That Light Up Your Life

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ROSS RUBIN Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals. Follow him on Twitter @rossrubin. Last week’s Backed or Whacked focused on devices that can remotely provide input to smartphones; this week, we venture beyond the bounds of simple information retrieval and toward illuminated products that can actually be controlled by one’s pocket companion, particularly in the…

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Article

Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEXIA TSOTSIS In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. While excerpts of that interview made it into the post, the transcript of the entire interview was so good it deserved to be published in its entirety. ************************ Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our…

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Apple

Help Key: Put Display Settings Back In The OS X Mountain Lion Menu Bar Where They Belong

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON I like my Retina MacBook Pro, in part because I have the option to switch to extremely high-resolution display modes when I’m way from my home Thunderbolt monitor and want as much screen real estate as I can get. But Apple did a curious thing in OS X Mountain Lion: They removed the option to put a display preferences item in the OS X menu bar. Luckily, third-party developers…

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Apple Business

9to5Mac: Apple preparing another 4th gen iPad SKU, signs point to 128GB model

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Still waiting for a 128GB iPad? One could come sooner than you think. According to9to5Mac, Cupertino is preparing to add a new SKU to its fourth-generation tablet line up, slotting next to the existing 16GB, 32GB and 64GB configurations as a premium model. A source at a well known US retailer shared the devices’ SKU information with the outlet, marked up with internal Apple terminology that described both WiFi-only and cellular-capable slates…

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Business Story Tech

Lenovo debunks RIM deal rumors, says CFO was just chatting Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg Lenovo turned a few heads last week when its CFO mentioned RIM as a possible acquisition target or partner, and with many eyes peering in its direction, the company’s felt the need to clarify its relationship with the BlackBerry maker. An English-language statement — courtesy of The Next Web — says Wong Wai Ming was “speaking broadly about M&A strategy,” and only included RIM in this comment as the interviewer asked about Lenovo’s…

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Story Tech

Insert Coin: DeltaMaker fuses razzle-dazzle with 3D-printing

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tipwith “Insert Coin” as the subject line. “Why should a 3D printer look like a microwave oven?” That’s the question being posed by the DeltaMaker Kickstarter project team, which thinks it can put some showbiz into 3D printing using a so-called delta robot…

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Entertainment Film

9 Films Everyone’s Talking About At Sundance This Year

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Esther Zuckerman “Don Jon’s Addiction” Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in his directorial debut “Don Jon’s Addiction” alongside Scarlett Johansson. 200 Years of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Book Design How Two Hedge-Fund Giants Turned a Schoolyard Fight into a TV Battle Royale Here’s Video of Crocodiles Being Handcuffed in South Africa This Dolphin Stranded in Brooklyn Must Save Itself ‘American Idol’: The Louisiana Letdown The Sundance Film Festival is underway, and reviews are…

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Apple iPhone Story

Unlocking Your Phone Without Permission Becomes Illegal Tomorrow: Here’s Why You Should Care

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Kevin Purdy After this upcoming weekend, you have to ask your phone company if you want to use the phone you (kind of) bought from them on any other carrier’s network. You used to be able to ask for, or purchase, or hack your way to an “unlocked” phone, but that will be illegal after Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. The Librarian of Congress believes cellphone companies are doing a good enough…

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Business Hardware Dev

Cellphone Chips Will Remake the Server World. Period.

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As reported on Wired. BY CADE METZ Facebook’s Frank Frankovsky. Photo: Wired/Bryan Frank   Facebook recently ran an experiment. Inside a test lab, somewhere behind the scenes at the world’s most popular network, engineers sidled up to a computer server loaded with software that typically drives the Facebook website and started messing with the CPU. Every processor includes something called a cache — a place to temporarily store data without sending it all the way back to…

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