Middle Age… with the requisite aches and pains… Actually, it is clearly anything but that. If anything Smartphones (as they’re now largely known) seem to have found a sort of virtual ‘fountain-of-youth’ as the Mobile Phone marks a milestone birthday that we can largely credit to Motorola and governmental-related Venture Capital (which today would be tragically dismissed by the fringe elements that have largely co-opted public opinion).
(Source) Daily Tech: http://goo.gl/EgFr6
While it is indeed both commendable and technologically impressive that LA has synchronized all 4,500 of the cities’ traffic lights… it still means one thing: internal combustion driven commuting (e.g., cars) are the primary means of transportation.
Nevertheless, as the world’s first city to do so, it is a model that’ll hopefully be adopted globally to help to mitigate some of the network effects of being car-dependent (pollution / lost productivity / reduced quality of life issues, etc.)
(Source) NY Times: http://goo.gl/QORy6
A fool may be known by six things: anger without cause; speech without profit; change without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger; and mistaking foes for friends.
What a difference a day (year) makes as Apple’s recent stumbles continue (as this time around the company was denied a US Trademark on their iPad Mini name).
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/bNYsF
Are you ready for yet another Smartphone? Either way, it is soon to be released from Facebook and geared towards (what else?) spotlighting the firm’s network.
(Source) NY Times: http://goo.gl/58SLm
Consolidation is an inevitable (and, many times, unfortunate) reality of any given industries’ maturation process as evidenced y Amazon announcing their purchase of Goodreads (one of the most prominent / leading online communities).
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/T05zJ
Subverting a Broadband router which results in unsuspecting end-users being a part of one of the biggest DNS attacks ever… from a Pulp Fiction script; nope, try England!
(Source) The Guardian UK: http://goo.gl/oOHKL
Have you ever wanted to be a Publisher? If so, there’s an… you know the rest.
Actually, said application (Flipboard) has been around for some time but with a significant upgrade it’ll now allow you to quasi-publish your own magazine.
(Source) Digital Trends: http://goo.gl/aP7jt
For those that are fans of Apple and Animation… this must seem like the ultimate pairing.
(Source) Apple Insider: http://goo.gl/sNNO6
Surely, we can all spare more…
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/ks1xh
