Mozilla Unveils 'Aggressive' Firefox OS Schedule
Mozilla has announced a proposed timetable for upgrades and updates for its Firefox OS. The company is planning on keeping the frequency of releases to be in line with that of the Firefox browser. If this is the schedule Mozilla will attempt to follow, Firefox OS will be getting four major upgrades per year.
Despite this promise, Mozilla was smart not to give a specific date, so it can adjust its schedule as things go. It's thus not clear when exactly we can expect Firefox OS 2.0.
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Motorola to Finally Unveil Mysterious Moto X on August 1st
Motorola is throwing in all of its chips and showing all of its cards on August 1st. That is the Day of Judgment for the troubled company when it takes the wraps off of its Moto X smartphone. All that is known of the Moto X is what has come out in the form of unofficial leaks, rumors and speculation. In other words; business as usual for a new release.
The anticipated Moto X smartphone, which has been virtually shrouded in mystery with few exceptions, is arguably one of the last (if not the last) chances that Motorola has to prove itself.
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Jeff Bezos IDs Recovered Apollo 11 Rocket
Jeff Bezos is a man of many interests and one is his fascination with recovering and preserving relics from past space shots. His Expeditions Team has successfully identified a rocket engine they recovered in 14K feet of water as that of the Apollo 11 moon rocket that took the first astronauts to walk on the moon. Just think, some of that money you spent with Amazon has gone to finance something worthwhile.
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Woman Killed by iPhone Used 3rd Party Charger
According to a just released report from the South China Morning Post, the Chinese woman who was electrocuted when answering her iPhone 4 was still connected to an unauthorized battery charger. The charger appeared to malfunction, allowing a full 220 volt charge to run through the battery.
"Knockoff chargers sometimes cut corners," Xiang said. "The quality of the capacitor and circuit protector may not be good, and this may lead to the capacitor breaking down and sending 220 volts of electricity directly into the cell phone battery."
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Secret Court Approves Continued NSA Spying
On Friday, without much in the way of a public announcement, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was renewed by the FISA court. The prior order was set to expire at 5pm Friday afternoon, but the ruling by the court approved renewing FISA just prior to the deadline.
There is some good news to this week's happenings. We now know more than ever before exactly how the NSA's telephony metadata program works. Unfortunately, the more we learn, the less it seems we can do.
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Comcast Visualizes a Mobile WiFi Network
Thinking out of the box is a great way to stay ahead of your competition and Comcast has applied for a patent to give the company an edge in area coverage. The patent applied for is titled simply 'Mobile WiFi Network' and is exactly what it sounds like. The plan would use transceivers on just about anything mobile to relay data to cell towers.
The patent application discloses a method for further expanding its Wi-Fi coverage by placing Wi-Fi transceivers in rental cars and taxis and discusses how Comcast may be able to motivate drivers to move Wi-Fi equipped vehicles to areas where it needs coverage.
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'Rovio Account' Syncs Angry Birds Game Stats
Rovio is always improving its cash cow games with tweaks and new improvements and to that end, Rovio has released Rovio Account, providing game players with a means to sync their game level progress from one device to another.
Our fans have been asking for a way to play their game on different phones or tablets without losing their progress when changing the device.
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FCC Votes to Move Ahead with High-Speed Internet for Schools
The FCC has voted to move forward with plans to have high-speed internet access to 99% of the entire nation's schools within five years. This will be a continuance of the 1997 plan to provide internet access to school libraries, but with emphasis on modernizing and expanding its efforts.
The initiative intends to bring high-speed internet connections into 99 percent of US schools within the next five years.
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Buy Office 365 and Get Free Year of Xbox Live Gold
Microsoft is promoting its Office 365 subscription service with a giveaway of a full year subscription to Xbox Live Gold. The promotion is only offered to selected countries and curiously omits the US in this round, at least for the present time.
Microsoft is pitching the deal to high school and college students as a good way to "make school enjoyable all year round."
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Apple Releases Software Update for New MacBook Air
Apple can't seem to catch a break lately, but maybe this update to fix the Wi-Fi connectivity problem that surfaced immediately after the debut of MacBook Air will bring back some good karma.
Last month Apple started investigating reports of Wi-Fi issues on its new MacBook Air and some customers even received replacements.
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Amazon Rejected as Domain Name After S.A. Objections
Score a win for the little guys fighting the big corporation. The objections of several South American countries won out for cultural reasons over Amazon's commercialization of the .amazon designation. The decision can be still overruled by the Icann Board, but rarely reverses the committee's decisions. Muy Bueno.
"We're reviewing the G.A.C. advice and we look forward to working with Icann and other stakeholders to resolve these issues as the process moves forward," Amazon said in a statement.
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G20 Backs Fundamental Multinational Corporate Tax Reform
If recommendations made by the G20 are acted upon, the large multinational corporations such as Apple and Google would lose the tax loopholes that allow the companies to pay little to no corporate taxes in certain countries considered to be tax havens. The loopholes cost the home base countries Billions of dollars in yearly revenue.
Large budget deficits and public anger at inter-company structures designed to channel profits into tax havens has prodded governments to act.
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Tumblr Starts Hiding Porn from Search and Tag Pages
When Yahoo took over Tumblr, the issue of what could be deemed NSFW image content was addressed as a non-actionable issue and announced that it would remain status quo. It now appears that Tumblr has backtracked on its original statement and a compromise of sorts has been reached to leave the content intact, but the blogs and posts will be non-searchable and hidden, making the content more difficult to locate.
Blogs classified as NSFW (ones that contain occasional nudity or adult content) or adult (ones that contain mostly nudity or adult-oriented material) will not show up in tag pages or search pages for users that are not logged in or who have "Safe Mode" turned on.
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The 'Second Screen' Industry Is Ready To Takeoff
Nothing really new here in the way of technology since we are used to 'picture in picture' technology on our TVs for a while now. What is significant though, is the new way to put similar technology to work with today's next-gen devices.
This approach is often referred to as the "second screen," the idea being that the tablet or smartphone becomes a TV companion device, allowing for added levels of interactivity— whether on social networks or dedicated second screen apps and sites that complement on-air content.
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Verizon Brings Watch ABC, Watch Disney to FiOS TV
If you are a FiOS TV subscriber, Verizon has made a deal to add ABC and Disney TV shows to their lineup at no extra charge. Verizon will also be adding the Hispanic channel, Fusion and WATCH ABC Family later this year to its FiOS streaming.
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SilverStone AR01 & AR02 CPU Air Cooled Heatsink Review
SilverStone comes to us today with a new series of air cooler for your AMD or Intel branded processor. The Argon series is pointed squarely at the lower cost end of its product stack. So how do these 6mm heatpipe units with "Direct Export Technology" stand up to testing in a world of great air coolers with much higher prices?
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