March 3rd, 2011 |
by jennifer |
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Android, cloud, Facebook, iphone | Comments Off on FOI Topics and Links of the Week
Retailer’s Terms and Conditions attempt to restrict negative online reviews. After a consumer posted a negative review of an Internet retailer online, the retailer reached out, not to apologize, but rather to threaten a libel suit. It turns out that the retailer’s Terms and Conditions aim to limit the circumstances under which an unhappy customer […]
August 3rd, 2010 |
by z |
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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 […]
March 8th, 2010 |
by jennifer |
published in
cloud, cybersecurity, Facebook, Future of the Internet, ubicomp | 3 Comments
A roundup of happenings that bear on the issues in The Future of the Internet — Canadian Android Carrier Forcing Firmware Update. A Canadian carrier wanted users to download a firmware upgrade that fixed a glitch prohibiting users from dialing 911, so it made the upgrade mandatory. Seems reasonable. But it bundled in an update […]
December 10th, 2009 |
by Elisabeth Oppenheimer |
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Android, cloud, Future of the Internet, iphone | Comments Off on FOI Topics and Links of the Week
Apple’s Game-Changer, Downloading Now. Long NY Times article on Apple’s App Store and how it’s changed the model of what a smartphone should be. The good parts of the article: interesting data (100K apps for the iPhone, 14K for Android, 500 (!) for PalmOS; $1B a year in iPhone app sales), some valuable musings on […]
November 30th, 2009 |
by Elisabeth Oppenheimer |
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Android, cloud, Future of the Internet, iphone | 1 Comment
Here’s a roundup of some interesting stories published recently on generativity, tethered devices, and as always, the iPhone. Generative Irrelevancy. Tim Sturgill considers Google’s video touting Chrome OS. He worries that it may be the “final nail…in the generative coffin,” but he also sees the virtue of moving beyond traditional OSes. See also JZ’s take […]
October 11th, 2009 |
by Elisabeth Oppenheimer |
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cloud, Future of the Internet | 4 Comments
Professor Zittrain has spent time on this blog and elsewhere discussing the future of cloud computing. One of his frequent suggestions is that it should be easier to move data within the cloud, so we don’t all get locked into a certain photo storage system, or spreadsheet provider, or what have you. It seems that […]
July 30th, 2009 |
by z |
published in
cloud, Future of the Internet | 8 Comments
There’s lots of talk, and confusion, about the “cloud” and “cloud computing.” I’ve recently contributed to it (the discussion, at least, and possibly the confusion) with some of my worries, and in some technology and vendor circles that’s been seen as controversial. I wanted to share some thoughts about just what the cloud is – […]
