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Hybrid Apps: The Art of Being in Two Places at Once
Monday - August 30, 2010
Like any other winner-take-all industry, the digital music world is not immune to trendy tech solutions that come and go. Hybrid apps, however, are one trend that's here to stay. Software developers in almost every industry have been meeting their customers' needs for years with early versions of hybrid app technology and in the next few years, hybrids will reign on tablets and mobile phones. I've spent a significant amount of time investigating what exactly a hybrid app is, and the best technologies to build one. [More...]
Monday - August 30, 2010
This week, Apple is expected to announce a refresh of several iPod products (including the touch) and possibly the Apple TV. The real drama remains with its higher-profile offerings -- the iPhone and iPad -- and last week, Qualcomm gave a credible look at their compelling future. However, with phones running on Google's Android platform passing the iPhone in shipments, there is some doubt whether Apple can hold onto this lead. [More...]
Monday - August 30, 2010
So widely acknowledged are the security advantages of Linux that on those rare occasions when a bug is found, it tends to makes quite a splash. Such, in fact, is just what happened recently when news broke of the Linux kernel bug that -- it turns out -- had been around since 2004. A fix was actually supplied back then by SUSE maintainer Andrea Arcangeli, but it never got incorporated into the Linux kernel. [More...]
Monday - August 30, 2010
Move over, Ken Burns. The Civil War has come to the iPad. The $4.99 app, Civil War: America's Epic Struggle, created by MultiEducator is a cornucopia of information about the war between the states. What's more, it deftly uses the iPad's unique features to bring history to life in an engaging and exciting way. [More...]
Saturday - August 28, 2010
Last week, Dell cranked its wallet wide open and announced its intention to buy up a company called "3Par" for $1.15 billion. Putting 3Par under the Dell umbrella would buff up the high-end storage and large-scale backup side of its business and give companies like IBM and HP a new competitor to worry about. [More...]
Friday - August 27, 2010
A cosmic ray detector designed to search for antimatter made its way to the Kennedy Space Center Friday in preparation for a February launch that will take it to the International Space Station on the final space shuttle flight. The detector, called the "Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer," was flown in from the CERN Labs in Switzerland. [More...]
Friday - August 27, 2010
During the first half of 2010, more than 4,300 new disclosures of software security issues came to light. That's according to the mid-year report issued by IBM's special X-Force security research team. What's perhaps a bit more disturbing is how many of those vulnerabilities remain unfixed. [More...]
Friday - August 27, 2010
Technology is a wonderful thing. It has given us many good things, including the pacemaker, the radio, TV, prosthetic limbs and eyes that help the lame and the blind, instant communications by way of the Internet and mobile phones. Proponents of technology point to all this as evidence that technology gives us freedom. But technology has also made it easier to limit our freedom in ways few realize. [More...]
Thursday - August 26, 2010
Garmin on Wednesday recalled 1.25 million Nuvi GPS navigation units worldwide due to a battery problem. Of those, 765,000 were sold in the United States. The recalled units may overheat, leading to a fire hazard, Garmin said. The models affected are some units of the Garmin 200W, 250W and 260W families, and a few in the 7 series. [More...]
Thursday - August 26, 2010
A "significant compromise" of U.S. military networks has been acknowledged by the Pentagon two years after the breach was reported in the press. "In 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its classified military computer networks," Deputy Secretary of Defense William S. Lynn III wrote in an article in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. [More...]
Thursday - August 26, 2010
Today, there is a significant deployment of 3G/3.5G networks, supporting a whole range of bandwidth-intensive applications such as audio and video streaming. Consumers are looking to replicate their Internet experiences from wired broadband services even while they are on the move. The phenomenal success of smartphones, netbooks and tablet PCs has resulted in a sudden surge in data bandwidth usage on wireless networks. [More...]
