RWW: The Future of Tech

"Google's Android smartphone software stretched its market lead in early 2012, helped by new models from handset makers like Samsung and HTC and piling the pressure on rivals like Research In Motion and Nokia. Research from Kantar WorldPanel on Tuesday showed Android gaining share strongly in most of seven major markets - Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States - in the 12 weeks to mid April. In Spain and Italy, its market share more than doubled year-on-year to 72 percent and 49 percent respectively, while it almost doubled to 62 percent in Germany." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

süper yaa :)) - Ela

tşk ^.^ - !lker yoldas. )°(

"Galaxy Nexus is the superior choice" - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Galaxy Nexus is the superior choice" according to professional anti-Apple propagandist and Microsoft shill, Joe Wilcox, and Microsoft gamer/egoist/creep LANjackass. - Zato Gibson

"Just as interest in sharing files in the cloud is starting to heat up, Facebook has started rolling out file sharing for groups." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful. In the coming weeks, people will be able to access the App Center on the web and in the iOS and Android Facebook apps. All canvas, mobile and web apps that follow the guidelines can be listed. All developers should start preparing today to make sure their app is included for the launch." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"In a series of experiments, the researchers found that the act of disclosing information about oneself activates the same sensation of pleasure in the brain that we get from eating food, getting money or having sex. It's all a matter of degrees of course, (talking about yourself isn't quite as pleasurable as sex for most of us), but the science makes it clear that our brain considers self-disclosure to be a rewarding experience." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Twitter has filed a motion in state court in New York seeking to quash a court order requiring it to turn over information about one of its users and his communications on Twitter. This particular case involves a Twitter user, Malcolm Harris, who is being prosecuted by the District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan for disorderly conduct in connection with the Occupy Wall Street protest that occurred on the Brooklyn Bridge last year." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

vay canısına - Orhaan

Microsoft son üründe çok vasat ama şu Research takımı harikalar yaratıyor - !lker yoldas. )°(

"Android now holds almost two-thirds of the U.S. market, says NPD Group." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"The Charms may be curiously named, but they provide a very important interface between the otherwise separate Metro and desktop experiences in Windows 8. Available from any interface—the Start screen, PC Settings, any Metro-style app, and even the desktop—the Charms consolidate many important system-level capabilities and often-needed features into an easily remembered and accessed user interface that otherwise isn’t taking up any valuable onscreen real estate. As such, it’s a great Metro user interface, and the embodiment of what this design style is trying to achieve." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

http://www.schneier.com/blog... - Mitchell Tsai

"Android 4.0 share jumped dramatically from mid March to mid April" - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Google's Android system has grabbed more than 50 percent of the US smartphone market, while Samsung cemented its leadership as the top device maker, a survey showed Tuesday." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"A virus infecting Macintosh computers is picking Google's pocket by hijacking advertising "clicks," tallying as much as $10,000 daily, according to Internet security firm Symantec. A component of the widespread Flashback virus targets Google search queries made using Chrome, Safari, or Firefox browsers and directs people to pages dictated by the hackers, Symantec said Tuesday in a blog post." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

With each succeeding generation in tech, it seems the prior generation can’t quite wrap its head around the subtle changes that the next generation brings. In the tech world, we’ve really had 3 generations: Web 1.0 (companies founded from 1994 – 2001, including Netscape, Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL (AOL), Google (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY)), Web 2.0 or Social (companies founded from 2002 – 2009, including Facebook (FB), LinkedIn (LNKD), and Groupon (GRPN)), and now Mobile (from 2010 – present, including Instagram). - Mitchell Tsai

Web 1.0 and 2.0 companies still seem unsure how to adapt to this new paradigm. Facebook is the triumphant winner of social companies. It will go public in a few weeks and probably hit $140 billion in market capitalization. Yet, it loses money in mobile and has rather simple iPhone and iPad versions of its desktop experience. - Mitchell Tsai

It is just trying to figure out how to make money on the web – as it only had $3.7 billion in revenues in 2011 and its revenues actually decelerated in Q1 of this year relative to Q4 of last year. It has no idea how it will make money in mobile. - Mitchell Tsai

The Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA), introduced by Reps. Eliot Engel and Jan Schakowsky, bans employers from demanding that current or prospective employees turn over information about their Facebook, Google+, Twitter, or other online profile. They are also prohibited from punishing workers for not producing such material. - Mitchell Tsai

"People are entitled to private lives. You'd be appalled if your employer insisted on opening up your postal mail to see if there was anything of interest inside. It's equally out of bounds for an employer to go on a fishing expedition through a person's private social media account." - Mitchell Tsai

"Summary: A pair of high-profile malware attacks have given Apple a crash course in security response. Based on recent actions, 70 million current Mac owners have a right to expect much more from Apple than they’re getting today." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Esther Dyson: "The first thing I do is go where other people aren’t. I leave Silicon Valley and spend a lot of time not just in New York but in Russia and in other far-off places. Any time you approach something as an outsider, you’re able to see what people who are familiar with it can’t." Tim O’Reilly: "The myth of innovation is that it starts with entrepreneurs, but it really starts with people having fun. The Wright brothers weren’t trying to build an airline, they were saying, "Holy shit, do you think we could fly?" Peter Schwartz: "You look for technologies that are likely to create major inflection points—breaks in a trend, things that are going to accelerate. Those tend to be very powerful. This is especially true with scientific technology and tools. (...) If an area is attracting great talent and money from governments and companies, you can expect to see important change." - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Human nature, if nothing else, consists of this desire to transcend our boundaries—-the entire history of man from hunter gatherer to technologist to astronaut is this story of expanding and transcending our boundaries using our tools. And so whether the metaphor works for you or not, that’s a wonderful way to live your life, to wake up every day and say, “even if I am going to die I am going to transcend my human limitations.” And then if you make it literal, if you drop this pretense that it’s a metaphor, you notice that we actually have doubled our lifespan, we really have improved the quality of life across the world, we really have created magical devices that allow us to send our thoughts across space at nearly the speed of light. We really are on the cusp of reprogramming our biology like we program computers. (...)" - Amira from Bookmarklet

"[As Freeman Dyson said] “in the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.” It’s a really well placed analogy, because the alphabet is a technology; you can use it to engender alphabetic rapture with literature and poetry. Guys like Shakespeare and Blake and Byron were technologists who used the alphabet to engineer... more... - Amira

"Microsoft will release a "release preview" version of Windows 8 will be released in the first week of June, the company announced this evening." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Apple just can’t shake the malware news, just like it can’t shake the patent lawsuit headache it calls Samsung. Speaking of headaches, Greenpeace is on Apple’s back again, too. We prescribe a healthy dose of Mac OS Ken’s Ken Ray for this week’s headaches." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

... * your parents think it works just fine, thank you. - sofarsoSean

annnnd * with apologists due diligence it's gone beyond, much far beyond all its failings, inadequacies, tweaks/reinventions/versions. It endures like a cockroach. - sofarsoSean

"Days before Google’s official entry in the cloud hosting space (see Google Drive announcement here) comes Microsoft’s announcement that they have improved their cloud hosting service SkyDrive. The service now supports file uploads of up to 300 Megabyte in the web browser (2 Gigabyte syncing from the desktop, at least under Windows 8), as well as the Open Document Format, short url support for Windows Phone images shared to Twitter, and sharing to Twitter." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"As Microsoft works on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Xbox, users will be pulled back into its orbit, one product at a time." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet