But does the HTC One love the Mophie? Since I’ve been running my HTC One to the ground, I can honestly say the Battery had yet to disappoint or leave me stranded. So, I’ll go out on a limb here and say the One doesn’t need it, but for those of you who are super obsessed with your battery life, the HTC One version of the iPhone savior will cost you $99. I will admit, it is a nice complement to the HTC One’s lack of replaceable battery.
Kristofer Brozio: testfreaks.com: AT&T HTC One Not Quite Compatible with HTC Media Link HD (Yet) Marti Meyers: Ugh. Jim Szymanski: I’ll say it again, and again, and again if need be. HTC makes some great hardware, but every one of their software engineers should get booted today. They are destroying the reputation of a good … Read more
What do you make of that? I’m confused why they’d do this, release the source code of the kernel on which Google Glass runs as well as its drivers, HOWTOs nicely laid out. I’m almost always like general technological openness that doesn’t involve the Chinese and Russians repeatedly… But given how just mentioning Google Glass … Read more
It’s so hard to keep track of all the Google services you’ve grown to love (or to bash), let alone all their services you haven’t tried yet, right? Well, I could give you an RSS bundle of the hundreds of Google blogs to help you stay on top of that, but it might be more … Read more
Nginx, the second most popular web server, venerated for its speed and exceptional performance particularly with static content, reverse proxies and VPS setups among other purposes (a server we might want to consider actually), is now a viable option for you to choose if the deal breaker keeping you back was a lack of either … Read more
Doug Simmons: I think Google Glass is one product I would have preferred Google to make a little harder to root, given the potential validity of some of the premature criticisms voiced here and the need for Google to keep things controlled (like pre-approving all apps) in order to try to curb misuse. Even Schmidt has his reservations. Now we need to rely on XDA admins to be responsible.. anyway, hello spycam and modified (like automobile-unlocked) texting and youtube apps.
David K: The guy used known vulnerabilities. You’d think Google would close the known vulnerabilities to at least attempt to harden the OS. iOS shows how good these guys are at ..
Citing increasing demand from large websites (perhaps Facebook?) Mozilla’s Firefox developers decided to reconsider adopting the superior but not so ubiquitously-supported image format WebP. Hallelujah, I thought, not figuring zero progress would be made for this long in terms of reaching a consensus about which way to go. I’m not a programmer who’s familiar with … Read more
It may not be a bad decision, but it is not financially fruitful for Google if it was planning to extort money from its baddies Microsoft, Apple and others.
The war is on snitches. Microsoft is releasing a new Android app that helps Android users make the switch to Windows phones by showing them that they can move to Windows phones without losing their favorite apps. It’s called “Switch to Windows Phone” and is an Android exclusive at this point:
Switch to Windows Phone inventories all the applications on the Android phone and sends that inventory to the Microsoft SkyDrive cloud. When customers log in to the same SkyDrive account from the Switch to Windows Phone app loaded on their Windows Phone 8, the app finds the same set of applications. If there are no exact replacements, the app recommends similar ones, according to Guru Gowrappan, executive vice president for products at application search firm Quixey.
Most of the privacy advocates think Google Glasses invade privacy. I agree with them to some extent, but public picture taking or video recording is not illegal at least in the USA and India. It comes to just moral sense or commonsense of the camera holder. Keeping it aside, I think the following industries, would … Read more
In case you didn’t know ZTE is the fourth largest producer in the world. That’s a boatload of Android phones and tablets that are about to be adding coins to Microsoft’s piggy bank. As it stands approximately 80 percent of Android devices sold in the US are licensed reports Microsoft. The notable exception is Google-owned … Read more
Q&A with Eric Schmidt hosted by WSJ’s AllThingsD, it’s long so here are the takeaways. An audience member notes that Windows Phone chief Terry Myerson of Microsoft just accused Google of mobilizing to squash Facebook Home, that he “’wouldn’t be shocked if Google were trying to block out Facebook Home right now,’ but what’s to … Read more