When we attended a talk about social networks a few months back, we knew younger users were more prominent on networks like Facebook, but just how much they relied on these networks didn’t occur to us. For example, when it came to internet communication, Generation X built their social contacts around e-mail, while today’s internet [...]
Brent Simmons was one of many who commented earlier today on OS X Mountain Lion removing RSS reading from Mail and Safari. The move makes sense when one considers parity between OS X and iOS apps, in that the latter do not offer such features. But more importantly, these features are typically unused by most [...]
With Apple’s iCloud on the horizon, TUAW’s Steven Sande is speculating a death-knell for Mobile Me’s offerings, even though Mobile Me is supposed to transition over to the new iCloud. One of the features Sande thinks will disappear with iCloud is web-based apps: I’d speculate that the web-based versions of Mail, Contacts, and Calendar will [...]
If it’s not Back Orifice invading your privacy, it’s our favorite Internet search engine, Google. With it’s ability to spider web sites, hackers are using Google to find URLs of non-public web pages, many of which do not contain additional security and can allow these hackers to access private information. The funny thing is, I [...]
In what might possibly be AOL’s greatest move ever, a deal was signed to power AOL’s search features with Google technology. The great thing about this deal isn’t simply the fact that AOL users will have access to a good search engine, but that Google’s policies will go into wider distribution, including their policy to [...]