May 2012
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August 2011
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Mobile Apps Go Hyper-Local - The Kojo Nnamdi Show →
frankgruber:
I’ll be on the Kojo Nnamdi show on Tuesday, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:06 p.m. The show description is below. Be sure to listen in here: http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2011-08-09/mobile-apps-go-hyper-local Direct link to player: http://thekojonnamdishow.org/audio-player
Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have changed the way people make friends and network online. Now,...
July 2011
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Introducing Tumblr's New API →
I greatly admire the efforts of the Tumblr staff to bring engineering to the blog.
staff:
Along with a sharp new Engineering Blog and a beautifully organized new Developer Center. Enjoy!
June 2011
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May 2011
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Google Shuts Down Newspaper Archive Project
futurejournalismproject:
Google shut down its service to scan, archive and make searchable newspapers’ pre-Internet archives.
According to the Boston Phoenix:
News Archive was generally a good deal for newspapers — especially smaller ones like ours, who couldn’t afford the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars it would have cost to digitally scan and index our archives — and a decent...
Android Security Hole a Problem for 99% of Users →
10 days ago I brought this up in conversation with someone from the Times. I politely suggested they might contract a tech consultant, but I personally thanked them for bringing consumer awareness to the location tracking of mobile phones like the iPhone. It’s clear they are looking at more ‘researchers’ on the subject of mobile security since Locationgate. Apple’s reaction...
“Netflix traffic, be it movies or TV shows streamed over the wires, now accounts...”
– Netflix Owns The Evening Web | Fast Company (via davemorin)
April 2011
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Top 10 Reasons the iPhone's Location Logging is a...
10. Everyone is upset about the iPhone, but EVERY phone is being tracked. Apple just let’s you store it locally on your device. This is exceptional! If someone steals your device and you get it back, you can track where they went. If someone sues you or you are charged with a crime, you can use your phone to prove your innocence. The government has the ability to access these records from...
March 2011
3 posts
“I think this is Amazon’s first step towards launching their own Amazon-branded...”
– John Gruber on the Amazon Appstore (via marco)
Amazon is hiring like crazy right now.
Neighborhoodr : Potential Geolocation Goldmine? →
soupsoup:
Despite the advents of news aggregators and RSS feeds, finding reliable, accurate news can be a chore so arduous that your index finger might break anyday from all that scrolling you do. Enter Neighborhoodr. It’s a fancy, ambitious project that leverages the ease of Tumblr and allows community editors to keep local readers well-informed about what’s happening in their...
BREAKING NEWS -- BNO News: AT&T To Acquire...
This news makes AT&T a big player.
September 2010
4 posts
Wireless CCIE, here I come! →
I’m going to make this blog part of my reading material. Looks like the CCIE Wireless exam isn’t going to be a quick process.
New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a...
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service - Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:40AM EDT
Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute.
The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The attack...
Marco.org: A Verizon reality check →
It’s easy to glorify Verizon as an iPhone owner, because AT&T is so awful. But Verizon sucks, too — just in different ways, for the most part. I’ve been a Verizon Wireless customer since 2004: phones for the first 4 years, and data via tethering and EVDO modems for the entire time. I recently…