Episode 232:
A Major Facebook Announcement?, Murdoch's Online Paper, Dr. Geek Squad, "Flash This, Apple!", Soracle, the Manhattan Iceberg Project, and more!
Unbelievable! A new online survey of 600 mobile users commissioned by Egnyte, a file-server remote-access vendor, reveals the ugly truth about what smartphone users do on the road.
Funk-rocker and current Jehovah's Witness The-Man-We're-Now-Calling-Prince-Again declared that the Internet is "completely over," in an interview with the U.K. tabloid The Daily Mirror over the weekend.
Apple is engulfed in at least four different federal lawsuits over reception problems with its new
iPhone, as customers and their attorneys race to build class-action cases against the company. Angry customers, meanwhile, are reportedly swarming lawyers.
History was made Wednesday when Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, shot past Microsoft, the computer software giant, to become the world's most valuable technology company.
According to this site's math, nearly 5 million hours were waisted as a result of Google putting a playable PacMan game on its home page. How many hours do you think are waisted on Facebook? Or online games in general?
Does the world really need GoogleTV? Do we really want a Google Phone, Google Voice, Google Email, Google Search and now Google TV? I don't. But I sure would love an AppleTV that didn't suck.
Adobe now says it loves Apple. Last week, Adobe launched a new ad campaign in newspapers across the globe that catches the eye with an apparent change in attitude. The company is running "We Heart Apple" ads. Isn't Adobe really angry about Apple snubbing Flash on the iPad though?
John asserts this in a recent column. He says, "These days, the machines are used more often to interact than to calculate. This has caused a dislocation in society that may take years--or decades--to settle. It's like when a disease vector is introduced into a population with zero immunity."
Google has said that its Street View cars have been collecting information sent over open WiFi networks, contradicting previous assurances by the company, reports The Register. This means that Google may have collected emails and other private information if they traveled over WiFi networks while one of the cars was in range.
At Intel's recent Investor Day, executives talked up using its chips in "smart TVs" and smart phones, and discussed new chips for tablet devices. Do these markets make sense for Intel to pursue?
Web-TV-streaming giant Hulu claims that HTML5 isn't ready for coding and broadcasting video on the web. Hulu's latest version of its player is built using Adobe Systems' ActionScript. Product video president Eugene Wei blogged that when it comes to securing content, handling reporting for advertisers, and more, HTML 5 isn't ready.
As Steve Jobs goes out of his way to badmouth Adobe Flash and keep it off both the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is developing its own Flash alternative, according to tweets from a developer who saw the technology. AppleInsider writes that the technology is called Gianduia, after an Italian hazelnut chocolate.
Academics at U.C. Davis have canned a Gmail pilot project over privacy fears regarding Google's ill-conceived launch of the Buzz social network. The university backed out of plans to shift its email system for its 30,000 faculty and staff members over to Gmail.
According to security writer Joan Goodchild, there are five hidden dangers in using Facebook, including sharing of private information with third parties, ads that can contain malware, and spammers creating fake profiles. Is Facebook not to be trusted?
How well does the iPad stack up against the Kindle for reading books? After doing some reading on the iPad, Michael Miller says it is very competitive with the Kindle, and he likes Apple's iBooks application. He notes, though, that Amazon's eBook store is better than Apple's.
In 2005, ICANN accepted a proposal for the creation of .xxx, a top-level domain aimed at voluntary registration for adult sites. Two years later, the organization reversed the decision. Now ICANN is inviting renewed public debate on the issue.
John C. Dvorak, whose crankiness knows no bounds, is a contributing editor of PC Magazine, for which he has been writing two columns, including the popular Inside Track, since 1986.
The consistently irritated Dvorak has won eight national awards from the Computer Press Association, including Best Columnist and Best Column.
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