The California Attorney General has struck a deal with the world’s major app store opperators that will see new privacy policy standards put in place. Apple, Google, Microsoft, HP, RIM and Amazon have all agreed to require any software that uses personal information to provide a privacy policy that can be viewed in the store before an app is downloaded. The agreement will bring the various markets in line with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires developers provide such a policy
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New privacy policy standards agreed to by world’s major app store owners
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Many people with debilitating conditions rely on sip and puff technology to get around, which is relatively lo-fi by some standards . Now, a special retainer with magnetic sensors could bring mobility into the smartphone age.
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Magnetic retainer lets you operate machinery with your tongue, gives linguistics new meaning
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Posted by JoseOwense | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 22-02-2012
Samsung’s R&D department has been working overtime as it strives to break the idea it copies wholesale ideas from its competition. Yesterday we heard word about its planned new cloud service and today it’s announced that it’ll be unveiling a unique education-focused app for Galaxy Tabs 8.9 and 10.1
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Samsung’s Learning Hub demonstrates a commitment to education, profits
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The official Twitter app has just received an update on iOS and Android , bringing new features to both platforms, plus an “optimized” Ice Cream Sandwich experience as seen above. The app is also currently available on Amazon’s Appstore for the Kindle Fire now, and the company says it will pop up in the Barnes & Noble Nook Store February 23rd
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Twitter’s Android and iOS app get updates; out on Kindle Fire now, Nook soon
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Nokia’s Pulse app looks and smells familiar to anyone who’s ever used Google Latitude . The difference being that the Finnish handset maker has the benefit of Navteq’s $8 billion geolocation technology that it picked up back in 2008 . Now the Haus of Elop is opening a Boston skunkworks that’ll port the app, as well as future social software over to Android and iOS.
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Nokia’s social apps coming to Android and iOS: lions expected to lie down with lambs shortly
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The Daily got a lot of folks hopes up earlier today with a rumor that Office would soon be making an appearance on the iPad, but Microsoft is now throwing a bit of cold water on that news. While it’s not exactly an outright denial that such an app is coming, a Microsoft spokesperson has now told The New York Times’ Bits website that “The Daily story is based on inaccurate rumors and speculation,” adding only that it has “no further comment” at this time.
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Microsoft says Office for iPad story is based on ‘inaccurate rumors and speculation’
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Posted by jekeal | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 21-02-2012
Korean newspaper ETNews is developing a reputation for bold claims, the latest being that Samsung’s “answer” to iCloud , S-Cloud has been significantly delayed. SDS, the conglomerate’s IT infrastructure division had originally been tasked to build the network, but its work was found to be “unsuitable.” After the setback, Samsung’s Media Solution Center had to enlist KT , operators of public cloud services in Korea and Amazon to help move things forward.
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Samsung’s iCloud rival delayed after in-house service deemed ‘unsuitable’
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Apple just released its 2012 environmental report, detailing all the ways it’s conserving energy and working to make Mother Earth a slightly cleaner place. A highlight of that effort is clearly the company’s data center in Maiden, North Carolina . The giant white-roofed server bunker will soon be home to the largest end user-owned solar array in the US — covering 100 acres and producing 42 million kWh of electricity each year.
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Apple’s 2012 enviromental report reveals giant solar array
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Without a doubt, the purveyance of personal electronics has changed our lives — not only have they put oodles of information at our fingertips, but they’ve also made pushing fully-clothed friends into the pool a warranty-voiding social faux pas. If you do get dunked, however, Apple wants to make sure you aren’t going to blame your phone’s apparent water damage on one of the ( potentially faulty ) detection stickers in use today, rather than your own perilous plunge. A new patent application uncovered by AppleInsider imagines an iDevice that detects water damage using a sensor covered in water soluble conductive glue that, when dissolved, allows the sensor to detect its absence and log damage.
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Apple patent shows designs for more accurate water damage sensors
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Nightline’s Bill Weir managed to get his feet inside manufacturing behemoth Foxconn: the infamous plant where iPads, Xboxes and Kindles are constructed.
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ABC’s Nightline goes inside Foxconn’s Apple factory (video)
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