Apple today released a statement revealing that it, too, has received requests for consumer data from Federal, state and local authorities in the United States, even as it denied participation in the alleged PRISM program conducted by the NSA. Apple joins Facebook and Microsoft as companies that have made public batch data of requests from [...]

Google is creating a global database of child abuse images that the company hopes, when shared with other search engines, will help eradicate child pornography from the Internet. While this is certainly a goal worth fighting for, sadly it is also a goal that is out of reach. Given that Google shared their new program [...]

Guest author Jesus Rodriguez is the CEO and co-founder of KidoZen. It has taken more than five years, but the first phase of integrating mobile into enterprises is almost over.  Enterprise mobility is evolving. The first generation of enterprise mobile solutions focused on the management of mobile devices (MDM), enabling traditional email applications and the [...]

iOS 7 is a truly audacious redesign of Apple’s chief operating system. I have been using the beta version since last week and it’s abundantly clear that Apple is determinedly focused on ensuring that iOS—the software underpinnings of the iPhone and iPad—remains the simplest, purest OS on the planet.  It’s also obvious that the new [...]

If ever we needed confirmation that markets, not courtrooms, should decide the technologies we use, witness SCO Group’s reborn dream to sue all of UNIX-dom into its wallet. It was a specious lawsuit in 2003 when SCO Group (now Xinuos) first launched its $1 billion broadside against IBM. It’s even more farcical today. Sadly, it’s [...]

My, what a difference a generation makes. A console generation, in the case of Sony’s PlayStation 4. After a well-crafted press event at E3, Sony’s console has even Xbox diehards peering over the fence - and me too. It took Sony’s bold offensive approach to the future of gaming to make me remember, but it all came [...]

If you are a mobile developer getting to know what’s new in iOS 7, you’ve actually got it fairly easy. It’s the mobile designers who are banging their heads against the wall. Everything app designers knew about the look and feel of iOS has basically been tossed out the window in iOS 7. Buttons no [...]

Dirk Dallas, a graphic designer currently residing in southern California, downloaded the photo-sharing and -filtering app Instagram the day it came out on October 6, 2010. He then promptly deleted it. “It didn’t make sense because unless you follow people or have followers, what is it?” the 30-year-old university professor says of his early mindset. [...]

Pinterest is one of the most popular social media networks on the planet, yet for many men it remains a profound mystery. So I decided it was time to see what was really going on over there.  First, the general perception that Pinterest is a largely female domain is not wrong. The vast majority of Pinterest [...]

Crowdsourced advertising platforms – some with Silicon Valley backing - are sprouting up to liberate untapped talent from around the world and remake television (and video) advertising. Companies such as Tongal, Zooppa, Poptent and others are tapping the crowd for talent and hoping to leverage social media’s expanding reach and real-time impact to strengthen ties between products and people.  Can you tell [...]

I woke up this morning to the gentle buzz of the Fitbit Flex’s silent alarm. It’s one of the device’s nicest features, despite having nothing whatsoever to do with fitness tracking. And that’s the limitation I’ve found after spending two and a half weeks with a wearable fitness tracker: It integrates itself into my life in pleasant [...]

One of the big problems in today’s technology landscape is the lack of solid tools to help designers create better software. Now that Apple has seen fit to update the iPhone’s look and feel with iOS 7, it’s even more critical for app developers to be able to redesign their software to adhere to Apple’s [...]