Google Glass just got a little bit more real. If you were worried that Google’s augmented reality glasses were a pie-in-the-sky concept that might not ever become a real product, you can relax. That is not going to happen to Google Glass.
Google released the tech details to Glass this week – along with everything that developers need t [...]
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Google Glassware: How Developers Can ...
Google Glass just got a little bit more real. If you were worried that Google’s augmented reality glasses were a pie-in-the-sky concept that might not ever become a real product, you can relax. That is not going to happen to Google Glass.
Google released the tech details to Glass this week – along with everything that developers need t [...]
YouTube's iOS Livestreaming Feat...
Watching Coachella from your phone just got easier. At long last, iOS users can tap into YouTube’s live video streams, thanks to an update pushed out to the app yesterday.
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 [...]
6 Signs Yahoo Actually Gets It (Final...
Disclosure: I used to work with Yahoo in my two years as an editor for the website Tecca. While I was never on Yahoo’s payroll, our companies had a close content partnership and some leadership overlap. (It’s complicated.)
Yahoo is a strange, many-headed beast. Not often commended for its corporate vision, cohesive net of product [...]
What If Your Smartphone Could Read Yo...
Today’s smartphones are pretty darned smart. Yet we are only scratching the surface of what these devices might do. What if our smartphones were actually intelligent? Able to perceive our actions and intentions and act upon them on our behalf? That’s the goal of a startup called Kimera.
Apple’s Siri, the current standard be [...]
Microsoft Mixes Apps And The Web With...
First, there was the Web. Then there were apps. Then there was the Web – plus apps. That’s the message behind Microsoft’s porting of the award-winning Contre Jour game to the Web in HTML5, intentionally blurring the line between the Web and apps.
Contre Jour is the next step in Microsoft’s “Beauty of the Web” campaign, centered around [...]
Microsoft Buys Into Mimvi To Help Sho...
Microsoft invested in Mimvi on Tuesday, designed to improve its app discovery capabilities for Windows Phone 8. For if developers build the most wonderful apps for Windows Phone 8, but no one sees them, what happens? Everyone loses.
Microsoft made an unspecified investment into Mimvi on Tuesday, almost certainly in an attempt to improve app [...]
Showing Off BlackBerry 10, RIM Aims T...
Having fallen far behind its mobile competitors, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion desperately needs its next-generation mobile operating system to be a hit. RIM pulled back the curtain on BB 10 today at its BlackBerry Jam developers conference in San Jose, showing off features the company hopes will pull it back from the brink of oblivion [...]
Hackers Scour FBI Laptop, Find Data O...
Hacker group Anonymous claims to have obtained 12 million iOS user IDs from the computer of an FBI agent and has released nearly 1 million of those IDs along with corresponding personal information. The claim, if it is true, raises important questions. For instance, what was an FBI agent doing with personal information about 12 million priva [...]