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CNet should be about news. This is not correct for a news organization to do this.
Update: BuzzFeed breaks it down here.
With this announcement things where never the same with phones. I didn’t own one of these, but I did get a 3GS a year later. I haven’t looked back. I know android has its advantages for some, but for me I love my iPhone.
I have always been impressed with the accessibility features of iOS, but this one is fantastic. Tommy Edison or “The Blind Film Critic”, uses Instagram and here is how he does it.
Be sure to check out this page for more information on how he uses the accessibility feature of iOS.
Thanks to: Cult of Mac
Google announced today via their Gmail Blog:
Starting today, we’re adding CardDAV – an open protocol for contacts – to that list. CardDAV enables 3rd party clients, like the iOS contacts app, to sync your Google contacts. By supporting IMAP, CalDAV, and CardDAV together, we’re making it possible for 3rd parties to build a seamless Google Account sync applications.
This is fantastic news for us iOS and Mac OS X users as it will make managing our contacts even easier.
One of my main frustrations in not using a full blown Exchange mail solution was not being able to manage my contacts with my Google Apps for my domain account, but now I can.
Yesterday Google I was questing your motives and today I am praising them. Welcome to technology today.
According to Google’s Eric Schmidt via Korea Times
Literally patent wars prevent choice, prevent innovation and I think that is very bad. We are obviously working through that and trying to make sure we stay on the right side of these issues. So ultimately Google stands for innovation as opposed to patent wars.
Unless it is Motorola, Googles own company.
I don’t think patent law is correct today in this country and deserves to be restructured, but don’t say one thing and do another.
So this could be interesting:
From the Verge
Apple won a wide-ranging exclusion order banning the importation of HTC Android devices at the International Trade Commission last December — the ITC found that Android’s messaging app and browser infringed upon Apple patent #5,946,647, which covers automatically converting things like phone numbers and email addresses into actionable links that open a menu of options. The ban was delayed so HTC could engineer around Apple’s patent claims, but it went into effect on April 19th — and although HTC claimed so-called “data tapping” was a “small UI experience” that would be completely removed from its US Android devices, Customs is now reviewing the One X and Evo 4G LTE.
This has wide ranging implications for the future of Android.
In this great TED talk Rob Reid explains why your iPod may be worth 8 billion.
Yes copyright infringement does indeed cost people money, but this just shows how far the math by the MPAA and the RIAA is off.
Motoblur collects information about customer use of applications and how that use relates to functions like power consumption. With that data, Motorola learns which applications drain power. “We are getting to the place that we should be able to warn you,” Jha said. He envisions presenting a notice to users when they launch an application alerting them that using the application will drain 35 percent of the phone’s power, for example, he said. The user can then decide to continue or conserve power.
Of even more interest is the shear scale of amount of time viewed however:
Facebook is definitely catching up, but has a long way to go. By the way I threw Hulu in as an interesting other source. You can draw your own conclussions.