December 30th, 2009 |
by elisabeth |
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Android, cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, iphone, ubicomp | 1 Comment
Flurry: App Store Sees Record Breaking Christmas. Great article collecting sales and market share numbers for the App Store and Android Market. Quick summary: App Store grew 51% (!) from November to December, Android Market 22%; App Store has 13x as many downloads as Android Market (apparently not everyone is as concerned about openness as […]
December 28th, 2009 |
by elisabeth |
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iphone, ubicomp | 10 Comments
Our worries about ubiquitous human computing*—summarized in this earlier post—fall into two broad categories. First, there are potential bad effects on the workers, since traditional labor-law protections may not apply in cyberspace. Second, there are potential bad effects on the world. One example that JZ has given in talks is that lobbyists could pay workers […]
December 23rd, 2009 |
by elisabeth |
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Android, Book, cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, iphone | 2 Comments
As Phones Do More, They Become Targets of Hacking. The NY Times observes that as computing — and especially commerce — moves onto mobile devices, security threats are growing. “It feels a lot like it did in 1999 in desktop security … People are using the mobile Web and downloading applications more than ever before, […]
December 10th, 2009 |
by elisabeth |
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Android, cloud, Future of the Internet, iphone | Comments Off on FOI Topics and Links of the Week
Apple’s Game-Changer, Downloading Now. Long NY Times article on Apple’s App Store and how it’s changed the model of what a smartphone should be. The good parts of the article: interesting data (100K apps for the iPhone, 14K for Android, 500 (!) for PalmOS; $1B a year in iPhone app sales), some valuable musings on […]
