December 5, 2013 Google-Backed Anti-Patent Troll Bill Passes The House The most unproductive Congress in history is on a mini-roll: the House of Representative passed its second piece of tech legislation this week. The…
December 4, 2013 2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen in massive hack Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million accounts at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and others, according to a report released this…
December 4, 2013 Android App Revenue Is Growing For a couple of years, app marketing and analytics firms have estimated the size of the Android-iOS monetization gap using various definitions of revenue,…
December 2, 2013 Steam sets a new record as over 7 million gamers log in at once Assuming Steam’s user base is still around the 65 million mark, as Valve reported at the end of the October, over 10 percent of…
November 26, 2013 How to Get Through TSA Screening Quickly I used to travel. A lot. Three or four trips a month wasn’t out of the ordinary before I achieved better life-work balance, giving…
November 20, 2013 Play Services is suddenly a severe battery drain, but nobody knows why Google Play Services has been up to some strange stuff lately. Over the past day or so, the normally innocuous app/service has been juicing…
November 18, 2013 Google Play Music for iPhone reviewed Google Play Music finally arrived on the iOS App Store late last week, giving iPhone owners the opportunity to access Google’s library of streaming…
November 14, 2013 How Silicon Valley turned on President Obama In the months leading up to the 2012 presidential election, Silicon Valley was squarely in President Obama’s corner. via Pocket http://theweek.com/article/index/252729/how-silicon-valley-turned-on-president-obama
November 14, 2013 Apple pushes out iOS 7.0.4 update alongside redesigned iBooks and iTunes U apps Apple may not have had all of its own apps overhauled in time for iOS 7’s launch, but it’s slowly but surely bringing them…