March 31st, 2011 |
by jennifer |
published in
Android, blackberry, Future of the Internet, iphone, kindle | 2 Comments
Amazon strong-arms a third-party Kindle service. Amazon shut down Lendle, a popular Kindle service that allows users to lend their books to strangers, last week because it didn’t “serve the principal purpose of driving sales of products and services on the Amazon site.” Two days later, after customers tweeted their displeasure, Amazon informed Lendle of […]
October 18th, 2010 |
by jennifer |
published in
Android, blackberry, censorship, cybersecurity, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone | 1 Comment
T-Mobile gives its G2 Droid amnesia. The G2s appearing on T-Mobile shelves this week come with an extra piece of hardware, and it’s not a free car charger. If G2 owners teach their Droids (either by coding or downloading software) to do something that interferes with T-Mobile’s business model, the company-installed rootkit will induce short-term […]
August 3rd, 2010 |
by z |
published in
blackberry, cloud, cybersecurity, filtering, Future of the Internet | 8 Comments
“Why did you walk around all day with rubber balls in your hands?” Orr sniggered again. “I did it to protect my good reputation in case anyone ever caught me walking around with crab apples in my cheeks. With rubber balls in my hands I could deny there were crab apples in my cheeks. Every […]
