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The new iPhone 4 may indeed be “the thinnest smartphone on the planet,” as Apple CEO Steve Jobs described it Monday during his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote presentation. However, it’s shaping up to be an out-of-this-world data hog — just as AT&T, playing the role of “The Biggest Loser’s” Jillian Michaels, begins weaning its customers off of all-you-can-eat data usage plans.
The location-based service company Glympse has its headquarters in Redmond, Wash. You certainly don’t need the company’s iPhone app — which lets people track their friends’ locations on smartphones in real-time on maps or satellite imagery — to know that. But it may seem lately as if Glympse has been all over the media map.
In the technology industry, imitation has always been the sincerest form of flattery — if not a successful business model for certain companies. It’s even more so in the nascent smartphone segment, so no one seems to be particularly surprised that Verizon Wireless and Google have plans to make an Android-based tablet computer to take on Apple’s iPad.
Turn on an Android OS phone, and that little yellow robot pops up all over the touchscreen like R2D2 on bionic steroids. A mini-chorus line of them shows up first, then just one robot decides to play hide and seek with you; there he is peeking out from the left side of the screen. Now he’s upside down, waving at you with a tiny cyber-arm.
The “Like” button that’s part of Facebook’s new Open Graph platform depicts a miniature “thumbs up” hand gesture, and it provides a quick, easy way for those visiting certain websites to indicate they approve of the content and want to place it on their FB profiles.
A new attempt to offer regulations for Internet privacy may be a so-called discussion draft, but so far the discussion has been anything but promising for Virginia Congressman Rick Boucher, a man who cosponsored the 2005 Consumer Privacy Protection Act. The Democrat released the draft legislation on Tuesday along with its cosponsor, Florida Republican Rick Stearns.
It’s one of the world’s most popular manufacturers of phones. It has a globally recognized brand. It’s ready to show off the latest enhancements to its smartphone operating system. And as far as anyone can tell, it hasn’t lost a prototype phone in a Silicon Valley bar and seen it torn apart on a technology blog.
Roughly six months before it bought YouTube, did Google actually share the view of the online video site that other copyright owners had — that it was a repository for illegally uploaded content? Does Viacom have a smoking gun against Google/YouTube, and does it come in the form of statements from their own senior executives?
Google isn’t the only entity taking an interest in Twitter’s tweets. That most venerable of government institutions, the Library of Congress, announced Wednesday it will archive every single “what’s happening?” update broadcast on the short message service since it opened for business in 2006.
After months of questions about how Twitter plans on making money, the short message service and social media phenomenon on Tuesday launched its first foray into advertising. However, in doing so, the company made it clear that traditional corporate interests would take a back seat to overall customer happiness.
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