News
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Apple’s iBooks Author EULA: What’s the Big Deal?
I've been following the heated discussion around the license agreement for Apple's new iBooks Author tool that lets budding publishers create their own iBooks for Apple iBookstore. Apple [...]
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Google+ Now Has More than 90 Million Users, 60% Sign in Daily (Updated)
In its earnings release and, of course, on Google+, Google just announced that its social network now has more than 90 million users. That's obviously a large [...]
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Google+ Now Lets You Record Video Status Updates
The Google+ team just announced that it has launched the ability for Google+ users to record video status updates. The service, of course, already allowed users to [...]
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As Reddit’s Bored Users are Set Adrift, Hacker News Shuts Down Account Creation to Keep Them Away
In the world of large online communities, Reddit ranks among the largest, most active sites today. Right now, however, all of Reddit's users have been set adrift [...]
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Sex Sells: Color Hopes You’ll Want to Broadcast Your Makeout Sessions and Illegal Pool Parties to Facebook
Color – just saying the name of it quickly became enough to get people to laugh about what was, without doubt, one of the most botched product [...]
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Opinion
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What’s Missing From Apple’s iTunes in the Cloud is iTunes in the Cloud
When Apple announced its iCloud service yesterday, the whole presentation led up to the reveal of iTunes in the Cloud, the most anticipated part of the service. As Apple went through its explanation of the service, though, I couldn’t help but feel somewhat disappointed. iTunes in the Cloud is missing a central part of what I was expecting from this service: access to my iTunes library in the Cloud. All the basic pieces are there: Apple knows what music I have on my machine (assuming I pay for iTunes Match once it’s released) and can sync that data to my other Apple devices – but you can’t stream your music from a web-based iTunes interface.
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The New Windows 8 UI: Trying to be Too Many Things to Too Many Devices?
Microsoft showed off the first demos of Windows 8 at the D9 conference and on its blog today. In its current form, it’s basically a blown-up version of the Metro user interface that also graces Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. That’s not a bad thing at all, actually. With its live tiles, the Metro UI provides users with one of the most information-dense “desktops” around without giving up aesthetics for clutter.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary: “There’s Absolutely No Reason for Any Person to Download Their Facebook Into the Car”
Cars are becoming increasingly connected and there can be little doubt that this opens drivers up to all kinds of new distractions. Some new cars can now [...]
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Android Tablets: Hardware is Great, OS is Getting Better, but Apps are Still MIA
When it comes to tablets, the iPad is still synonymous with the whole tablet category for most users. This doesn’t come as a surprise, though, given that it took Google’s partners quite a while to launch competitive hardware and Google’s first efforts to launch a tablet version of Android were not up to par with Apple’s iOS. For the most part, though, the forthcoming Android 3.1 and 4.0 releases will take care of most of these software issues, however, and with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Android tablet hardware is now also getting to the point where it’s competitive with Apple’s iPad line.What is missing, however, is the wide variety of apps that makes Apple’s ecosystem so vibrant.
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