Emerging Technology, Page 9

When you retweet something, do you expect someone else to be able to delete it? Previously, if you retweeted something, your retweet was your own. Only you had the ability to delete it. But with…

When Twitter announced their new retweet feature, I read Twitter founder Ev William’s reasons for the design of the new feature with interest. I understood his points. I didn’t agree with the solution, but…

Friday is the day to release news you want people to forget. No surprise then that Friday was when Google released the unredacted version of its letter to the FCC about Apple’s rejection…

Based on Q2 sales of smartphones, Webkit-based browsers may soon ship on 85% of all smartphones sold. Please keep in mind, this is not the reality right now. This number assumes…

Last January, I wrote about how the iPhone App Store was the surprise story of 2008. Flickr photo by Civisi: http://www.flickr.com/photos/civisi/2611679744/ The point of my previous post was how the iPhone App…

Tonight at Mobile Portland, there will be a presentation about Moblin. Moblin is an open source operating system for netbooks and mobile internet devices. This presentation has caused me to reconsider what…

Here is the story many people would like you to believe: Apple told developers that the only way to build applications for the iPhone was to use web technology. Developers didn’t go for it so…

Expanded from my tweet earlier today: HTC sells 80% of Windows Mobile phones. HTC rumored to be expect Android on 50% of its handsets in 2010 If this rumor is true, it…

I wanted to include a series of links at the end of my previous post on HTML 5, but I was afraid they would get lost after such a long post. Here they are: HTML…