November 26th, 2008 | by yvettewohn | published in Future of the Internet, Generativity | 2 Comments
By Yvette Wohn Opening the refrigerator to get some eggs for breakfast, I was surprised to find a strange apparatus built into one of the shelves. “What the…” “It’s a power juicer,” the refrigerator said, “I know you like fruit, so I decided to install this last night.” “Wow, that’s very considerate of you, but […]
November 25th, 2008 | by elisabeth | published in iphone | 4 Comments
Almost since the introduction of the iPhone, there have been complaints that it doesn’t support Flash. Those complaints have picked up steam in the last week week, as Adobe demonstrated polished versions of Flash on other mobile platforms—including Android—and all but publicly begged to be allowed onto the iPhone. Flash, an Adobe product, is software […]
November 19th, 2008 | by yvettewohn | published in Future of the Internet | 1 Comment
By Yvette Wohn In the United States, we sometimes tend to forget about how grateful we are to the First Amendment; the freedom of speech. Not many people may stop to think that for all accusations of evildoings, the current government has never tried to ban websites with funny pictures of George Bush or stories […]
November 18th, 2008 | by yvettewohn | published in Book, Future of the Internet | 1 Comment
By Yvette Wohn Joel Tenenbaum was one of thousands, perhaps millions of teenagers. When he was 17, he allegedly downloaded seven songs from the Internet using a peer-to-peer file sharing program called Kazaa [Both parties appear to agree this is a downloading case, not (solely) an uploading case like many of the others]. Now, 10 […]
November 14th, 2008 | by elisabeth | published in Facebook, Future of the Internet, iphone | 1 Comment
Apple continues to exercise its control over the iPhone platform, recently rejecting an app for using too much bandwidth. CastCatcher was a radio streaming app, which had been approved in several previous versions; the latest update was rejected for violating the TOS provision limiting bandwidth use. The developers are upset—they say the updated version didn’t […]
November 6th, 2008 | by elisabeth | published in Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone | 1 Comment
A few weeks ago, Google and T-Mobile rolled out the G1, the first mobile phone to run the open-source Android operating system. As the Android platform and Android Marketplace develop, it will be interesting to see how they compare to the iPhone platform and the App Store. Will the openness provide the benefits the Open […]
November 3rd, 2008 | by yvettewohn | published in Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone | 1 Comment
By Yvette Wohn After much anticipation and fanfare, the Android made a wobbly debut. A security flaw was discovered just days after it was released and users discovered some fine print that gives Google more power than originally anticipated. Despite these problems, critics are still optimistic about the Android because it encourages generativity. Android is an […]
