Month: September 2011
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Silky Privacy Concerns
What about handling secure (https) connections? We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL (e.g. https://siteaddress.com). Amazon Silk will facilitate a direct connection between your device and that site. Any security provided by these particular sites to their users would…
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Amazon Lights Up Android’s Fork in the Road with Kindle Fire
What does Amazon have that Motorola, HTC, Samsung, LG, Huawei do not? In a word … everything. That pretty much sums it up quite nicely, must of us were hoping that Google and Amazon would have teamed up a little better on this and developed and true iPad competitor. Unfortunately, the reality is that…
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‘Bring your own device’ programs opening doors for iOS in the Enterprise
“You shouldn’t reject things that make employees more productive, and if those things happen to be consumer technologies, so be it,” said Ted Schadler, an analyst with Forrester Research. [..] Letting workers bring their iPhones and iPads to work can also save companies money. In some cases, employees pay for equipment themselves and seek tech…
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Joy of Tech on Facebook Updates
What is really scary is how true this really is. We are not big fans of the Farcebook on this site, even though most of us seem to be ok with letting Google scan all of our personal bios. However, there has always been something about Facebook and more specifically ZuckerNuts that have always made…
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I don’t disobey, I just do what ‘feels’ right.
Op-Ed *Geek Badge* – Alignment: Lawful Neutral. Our esteemed Editor-in-Chief was a little perplexed that I did not respond to his article on disobedience, itself a comment on a piece by Julien Smith. The simple answer is that I don’t believe in disobedience. It is a philosophy, an illusion of unlawfulness created by Man. …
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The BlackBerry PlayBook Might Fail, But Don’t Count Out RIM Yet
The outlook continues to be pretty grim for RIM and the PlayBook specifically. Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair believes that there is no “meaningful evidence” that RIM is poised to turn things around. “Last quarter RIM talked about shipping 500,000 units but did not speak of sell-through for obvious reasons,” the analyst wrote in a…
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Kara Swisher on TechCrucnh and Logic!
But — because it is simply flat-out wrong on every possible scale — neither Walt Mossberg or I would ever consider being editors of the site, while also running a venture fund. via Michael Arrington Trying to Buy Back TechCrunch From AOL – Kara Swisher – Media – AllThingsD. I don’t even read TechCrunch anymore…
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The Evolution of the Web
This is simply beautiful. Just make sure you view it in a real browser, i.e. not IE. And yes this is the wrong use of i.e. (as per The Oatmeal, but dammit, the joke works.)