Posts in category Applications
My iPhone Supports Gay Marriage. Does...
If I can recommend a great local restaurant, leave a review for future patrons, alert my followers on Twitter, update my Facebook friends on my great new find – all in a few seconds – using only Yelp and my iPhone, why can’t I similarly promote those businesses whose values I support?
Why is it so easy to tell thousands of [...]
9 Things Microsoft Does Right
M$: Short for Microsoft, used to imply Microsoft cares more for money than it does for security, stability, and anything else that could make a good Operating System.” – Urban Dictionary, 2004.
“Microsoft sucks.” Too many times, the conversation stops there.
Yes, Microsoft gets plenty of criticism, much of it justifie [...]
Many Free Android Apps Are Starting T...
The money-go-round between app developers and ad networks is starting to blur the line between many free Android apps and malware. While these legitimate apps aren’t stealing passwords, they’re still riding roughshod over user privacy by gratuitously sucking up your contact and location information — or worse.
What These Bad Apps [...]
HTML5: Alive And Well With CIOs
Apparently, native apps have won. We even said so right here on ReadWrite. After all, Facebook apparently likes native more.
Facebook Home Could Be a Pain, Unless...
Facebook Home is something we’ve never seen before. It’s far more than just an app and beyond just a skin, but something less than an operating system. It doesn’t replace Android or skins like TouchWiz, but installing it will radically transform your Android phone — and not necessarily for the better.
What Home boils down t [...]
To Truly Stop Aereo, TV Broadcasters ...
Television broadcasters are freaking out. Certain that the courts would see things their way, companies like CBS, Comcast and News Corp. instead found that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Aereo, an Internet TV service they’ve been trying to shut down for a year.
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins: Maybe ...
Thorsten Heins was supposed to be the steward that oversaw the final collapse of one of the great technology companies of the last 30 years. When Heins took over Research In Motion in early 2012, not many people gave him a lot of hope. “Thorsten Heins Is A Patsy Set Up To Fail” was my take here on ReadWrite.
At the time, Research In Motion ( [...]
No More Wild West For Bring Your Own ...
In June 2007, Apple launched the first iPhone, marking a new era in corporate mobility. Before the fashionable mini-computer, people used smartphones for voice, texting and email. With the iPhone and its remarkable touchscreen users could also be entertained with music, video and games. Corporate executives became so attached to their hip de [...]
10 Compelling Ways People Plan To Use...
Google Glass is coming. Sure, the early adopters will be viewed as weirdos and the idea of a tiny head-mounted camera raises all kinds of creepy privacy questions, but Glass is cool.