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iPad… not so welcomed

This and the fact that the iPad is choc-full of some of the most restrictive DRM ever to hit a consumer product. Defective by Design calls the iPad “a computer that will never belong to its owner.” They’re sending this to Apple: “Mr. Jobs, DRM will give Apple and their corporate partners the power to [...]

Skype: Coming to a Couch Near You

Starting this spring, you won’t need to gather the whole family around a 15-inch laptop screen to talk with cousin Joe on the other side of the country. As a matter of fact, you won’t even need to get up off the sofa after the evening news, because Skype is coming to the big screen [...]

Reality seen differently

On open platforms like Android we’ve already seen developments, including things like Layar, an augmented reality app that describes the world around you, and TwittARound, an app which shows you nearby tweets. Layar Reality Browser  is a free application on mobile phones that uses the camera display view to show real-time geocoded digital information around [...]

Bookmark this Google…

Apparently, within the next two weeks Google is planning to release a new version of Google Chrome that will include the ability to sync bookmarks between different computers. “The synchronisation will be managed through a Google account”, said software engineer on the Chrome team, Tim Steele in a mailing list posting on Friday. Sync or synchronisation [...]

Blue Magic illusion

Don’t you hate it when you watching a very interesting tv show and an ad comes up? Ignoring adverts is no longer an option,  it’s about to get a lot tougher with the development of billboards and advertising posters that use Bluetooth to beam video ads directly to passing cellphones. As people walk in malls [...]